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Model tests monster waves
Researchers are using computer modelling to see what 20-meter ‘rogue waves’ can do to oil rigs – and how you can build for them.
Bhopal site 'not leaking toxins'
Indian officials dismiss claims that the site of the world's worst industrial disaster at Bhopal is still leaking dangerous toxins.
Western diets turn on fat genes: Energy-dense foods may activate genes that ultimately make us obese
Those extra helpings of gravy and dessert at the holiday table are even less of a help to your waistline than previously thought. These foods hit you with a double-whammy...
Mean Old Levee - Homeland Security's Levee PLUGS Pass A Second Test
The levee failures during Hurricane Katrina are still fresh in the American mind. Homeland Security's Wil Laska wants to make sure that if we cannot completely prevent levee breaches, we...
No Big Cost Rise in U.S. Premiums Is Seen in Study
The eagerly awaited report gave Democrats ammunition against Republicans who have criticized the bill on the ground that it would raise costs for most Americans.
Response: Intelligent design should not excluded from the study of origins
Complex biological systems have not been explained by neo-Darwinian processesYour article stated that "the government is ready to put evolution on the primary curriculum for the first time after years of lobbying by...
Brain food: the problem with Scroogenomics
Economist Joel Waldfogel says Christmas present-giving is an "orgy of wealth destruction". So does no good at all come of it?Twenty-four shopping days to go. Over the next few frantic weeks, the British...
Free Downloadable Articles Available from ASM Handbook Volume 22B: Fundamentals of Modeling for Materials Processing
To celebrate the launch of the newest volume of the world-renowned ASM Handbook series, Volume 22A, Metals Process Simulation, free sample articles are available to be downloaded from the ASM...
Microsoft to Pay News Cos. to Shun Google?
Trying to Boost Bing Search Engine, Company Flirts with Payments to Newspapers, Revenue-Sharing Deals
Tech and teens
(PhysOrg.com) -- Digital media use is transforming the way young people learn, UCI researcher Mizuko "Mimi" Ito has found, and schools should take note.
PBS's 'NewsHour' to use reporting from GlobalPost
(AP) -- PBS's "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" plans to beef up its international coverage with help from the startup news outfit GlobalPost.
Sprint to stop selling certain push-to-talk phones
(AP) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. is giving up on a technology that allows some Sprint-branded phones to use a "push-to-talk" walkie-talkie service similar to what's available on the company's...
Pesticides eyed in bee colony collapse
FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Pesticides may play a primary role in the collapse of commercial bee colonies, which contribute billions to agriculture yearly, a U.S. study...
Power of Synergy: Watch ASM International Progress Report in Streaming Video
An online progress report describing ASM International's efforts to serve the worldwide materials community can be viewed as streaming video at www.asminternational.org/synergy.
Industry Needs Drive Development of Certified Thermal Spray Operator Program
ASM International and the ASM Thermal Spray Society are developing the thermal spray industry's first certification program: Certified Thermal Spray Operator (CTSO).
Online retailers rev up deals to keep up momentum
(AP) -- Retail Web sites kept amping up the deals Monday, the first day after the Thanksgiving holiday, to try to maintain the long weekend's strong online sales.
First Step To Success steps up in Albuquerque schools
A school-based behavioral intervention program developed under a federal grant in the mid-1990s at the University of Oregon, already in widespread use, now has shown real value on a complex...
Don't Ghettoize Innovation
This isn't news anymore (see here, and here), but Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief of Science has weighed in on the out-of-whack system of incentives in the biomedical sciences: read more
Financial restructuring in fresh-start chapter 11 reorganizations
The effectiveness of the existing bankruptcy code has long been a source of vigorous debate. More and more lately, high-profile firms like General Motors, Enron, and K-Mart are seeking protection...
Quantitative approach to forensic fingerprint comparison studied
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has awarded researchers at Virginia Tech a two-year, $854,907 grant to develop a quantitative approach to measuring and establishing a standard for "sufficiency" of...
EC Reshuffle Bumps Microsoft Nemesis
European Antitrust Chief Neelie Kroes Moved Into New Job
Now you see it, now you know you see it
There is a tiny period of time between the registration of a visual stimulus by the unconscious mind and our conscious recognition of it ? between the time we see...
Holiday shopping off to mildly encouraging start
(AP) -- After shoppers gave retailers a somewhat encouraging start to the holiday shopping season, stores now turn their attention to the online promotions known as Cyber Monday and...
eBay fined in France for selling upscale perfumes
(AP) -- Online auction site eBay Inc. was fined euro1.7 million ($2.5 million) by a Paris court on Monday for failing to stop the sale of famous perfume brands...
Debate Over Artificial Legs in Sports
In an ironic twist, Oscar Pistorius' disability has now been shown to be an unfair advantage.
Foreign workers to get quicker credentials OK
Certain groups of foreign-trained workers will know within a year of applying for certification whether their training will allow them to work in Canada, the federal government said Monday.
Video: On The Street: Future of Dating
What's in store for the world of dating? Shira Lazar goes "On The Scene" to find out the consensus.
Africa Analysis: Quality in research
African governments need to learn how to boost the quality, not just the quantity, of research in their countries, says Linda Nordling.