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Panasonic plans home-use storage cell
Panasonic Corp., which recently made a successful takeover bid for Sanyo Electric Co., plans to market a lithium-ion storage cell for home use around fiscal 2011.
Daily Text Messages Exceed 4 Billion
Thumbs were flying in 2009: A new study reveals Americans sent an average of 17 texts per day this year.
Copenhagen disappoints EU leaders
BRUSSELS, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A climate-change accord drafted at an international conference in Denmark falls well short of the expectations of the European Commission, leaders said.
First Jesus-era house discovered in Nazareth
Just in time for Christmas, archeologists on Monday unveiled what may have been the home of one of Jesus' childhood neighbours.
Computer identifies authentic Van Gogh
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dutch researcher Igor Berezhnoy has developed computer algorithms to support art historians and other art experts in their visual assessment of paintings. His digital technology is capable of...
Putting the squeeze on data
(PhysOrg.com) -- Data compression is one of the fundamental research areas in computer science, letting information systems do more with less. It`s the reason the iPod nano can hold thousands...
Police warn of email scam
Police have issued a warning about an increasingly common email scam in which fraudsters hijack email accounts to solicit money from potential victims.
Mystery of golden ratio explained
The golden ratio is a geometric proportion that has been theorized to be the most aesthetically pleasing to the eye and has been the root of countless mysteries over the...
Would a Google purchase of Yelp draw regulatory interest?
Google Inc.'s reported plans to acquire local-listings service Yelp may face difficulties, with regulators attuned to the Mountain View, Calif.-based company's established dominance of the Internet-search and advertising markets, observers...
Binary, Hexadecimal And The Fascism Of The Decimal System
We have ten fingers and ten toes (or, most of us do. Exceptions include the noted alpinist Reinhold Messner, who has only three toes and seven fingers. Luckily, this leaves...
Landmines: Obama's ultimate betrayal | Clancy Sigal
Worst among the president's broken promises is his refusal, revealed at Thanksgiving, to ban landmines and cluster bombsWhen friends of mine learn that I have broken my deal with Barack Obama, and no...
Potatoes, algae replace oil in US company's plastics
Frederic Scheer is biding his time, convinced that by 2013 the price of oil will be so high that his bio-plastics, made from vegetables and plants, will be highly marketable.
Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man's best friend
Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that...
Taiwan mulls world's first junk food tax: report
Taiwan is planning the world's first tax on junk food in a bid to encourage the public to eat healthily and cut obesity rates, a report said Monday.
The Virtual Visit May Expand Access to Doctors
NowClinic, a service that connects patients and doctors using video chat, will expand across the country next year, but it is meeting some resistance.
The First Time, SIAM Elected More than 190 Fellows in 2009
It is known that the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM, linked http://www.siam.org) is an international community of over 12,000 individual members, including applied and computational mathematicians, computer scientists,...
Video: Web Wizard
A top British chemist has had many achievements in the lab and even was honored by the queen. As Richard Roth reports, this professor is really in his element on...
Has peak theory reached its tipping point?
We have all heard of peak oil? But now there is peak wood. And peak gold. And even peak rock music . . .First there was peak oil. Then came peak wood...
Video: Man Marries Nintendo Character
"CBS News RAW": A man walks the Tokyo streets with his new bride, a video game character, Nene Anegasaki, from the Nintendo DS game, "Love Plus". Their wedding ceremony was...
Hollywood adds money, talent to made-for-Web shows
(AP) -- Web sites that buy original video clips often pay so little that "The Bannen Way," a flashy crime thriller debuting online, looked destined to be made poorly...
Google gets digital foothold in France
Despite fierce resistance to Google's plans to digitise the world's books, observers say it is well placed to start scanning Europe's cultural treasures -- beginning in France, where the US...
Green Inc. Column: Copenhagen’s One Real Accomplishment: Getting Some Money Flowing
The accord in Copenhagen was “a big step forward” after previous talks offered no financial support mechanisms, Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary general, said.
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Techno Claus
David Pogue Opens Up His Santa-Sack Full of Holiday Cheer for Tech Geeks
Golden scores 20 to lift Wis-Green Bay to 10-0
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Heather Golden helped her teammates make a little school history for a program with plenty of plaudits to its name....
Senate plan would tax tanning services
Democrats replace the 'botax' on cosmetic procedures with a 10% sales tax on the use of tanning beds, citing skin cancer concerns. The tax would raise an estimated $2.7 billion...
About Naturalness !
Two days ago, there was a post on backreaction about the naturalness in science, which is considered by many as a fundamental concept. The point of view expressed in the...
Beijing vehicles exceed four million: state media
The number of registered vehicles in Beijing topped four million this week, state media reported, meaning a quarter of the 16 million permanent residents in China's capital have a car.
Obama raced clock, confusion, for climate deal
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was almost unthinkable. The president of the United States walked into a meeting of fellow world leaders and there wasn't a chair...