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Well: Soup Recipes for Health
The Recipes for Health columnist Martha Rose Shulman offers five new soups for summer.
New Rules May Ax Flame Retardants
Chemicals: State revision to decades-old standard could have nationwide consequences
Dot Earth Blog: Dispatches from Rio: None from Obama?
What President Obama might have said had he gone to the Rio environment summit.
Commercial Space Travel May Bring Science Benefits, Advocates Say
Commercial spaceflight could open up new research and development industries.
UK move to 'open access' in publishing 'misguided'
Advocates of open access publishing in academia say a UK report that proposes spending £60 million a year to make all publicly-funded research free to access will protect the profits...
On the origin of music by means of natural selection
Do away with the DJ and scrap the composer. A computer program powered by Darwinian natural selection and the musical tastes of 7,000 website users may be on the way...
Facebook buys facial-recognition platform Face.com
The Israeli startup company Face.com, which specializes in facial-recognition technology, has been acquired by Facebook, the social network of choice for nearly one billion people worldwide.
Mongolia wants its Tyrannosaur back, US gov agrees
U.S. Attorney pushes for Tyrannosaur skeleton - recently sold at auction - to be returned to Mongolia
Border agency told to halt eavesdropping on travellers
Canada's public safety minister has ordered the Canadian Border Services Agency to halt audio monitoring of travellers until a privacy assessment can be completed.
Intel flirts with exascale leap in supercomputing
(Phys.org) -- If exascale range is the next destination post in high-performance computing then Intel has a safe ticket to ride. Intel says its new Xeon Phi line of chips...
Oracle to buy back $10 billion more in stock
Business software giant Oracle on Monday shook off rumors of a looming management shake-up and announced plans to buy back an additional $10 billion in stock.
Open access is the future of academic publishing, says Finch report
Transition to open access could cost £60m a year but bring benefits for UK economy and increase efficiency of researchMaking all the UK's publicly funded scientific research free for anyone to read could...
Science screenwriting prize announced
LONDON, June 18 (UPI) -- Britain's Wellcome Trust and the British Film Institute have announced an annual screenwriting prize to encourage high quality movies inspired by science.
Milton Journal: To Avert Liability, Washington Town Drops Helmet Laws
With a police force thought too stressed by a rise in crime to enforce headgear rules for bicyclists, a struggling city opted to cut its legislation.
Biotech improved in 2011; future uncertain: report
(Reuters) - The aggregate financial performance of biotechnology companies in four of the world's major markets -- the United States, Europe, Canada and Australia -- improved in 2011, but funding...
DarwinTunes software 'evolves' music without composers
Noise filtered through generations of listeners eventually becomes melodic, offering insights into how our tastes evolved. Composers, look to your laurels: A mere computer program can transform a racket of...
Managing Chemicals Soundly Around The World
Negotiations: U.N. sustainable development talks include provisions on industrial substances
Landsat sets the standard for maps of world's forests
NASA's Earth-observing fleet of satellites provides a worldwide and unbiased view with standardized scientific data -- information crucial for tracking the health of the world's forests.
States Using Electronic Medical Records to Track Epidemics
Electronic medical records, by uploading data automatically to state health departments, are enabling officials to identify and track outbreaks more quickly than ever.
Internet Explorer 'tax' fuels browser debate
Kogan, an Australian electronics shop, has threatened to add a 6.8 per cent tax to the bill of anyone using Internet Explorer 7 when shopping on its website in order...
Pictures: Eleven Nations With Large Fossil-Fuel Subsidies
Governments around the world spend billions of dollars each year to keep the price of fossil fuels low at home, burdening state finances and encouraging wasteful consumption.
Yahoo hires chief revenue officer to spur ad sales
(AP) Yahoo is turning to a former colleague of its interim CEO to oversee the troubled Internet company's efforts to sell more online advertising.
Dutch, Nordic bourses best on sustainability: report
Dutch, Danish and Finnish stock exchanges performed best in sustainability disclosures, according a report by the British asset management company Aviva Investors released at the Rio+20 conference Monday.
Internet study links usage case with basket case
(Phys.org) -- You may have had to think about the Internet as a place where your Web usage puts a pricetag on your head and you are treated with ads...
Can Mervyn King save the British economy? | Aditya Chakrabortty
The Bank of England governor is probably the man most responsible for getting Britain out of recession. So can he do it?"It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's...
Humanities have a place, even at Caltech
Although science rules at Caltech, humanities and social sciences courses are 'crucial' to learning how to write and communicate, administrators say.When Christina Kondos receives her bachelor's degree at Caltech's commencement...
Reforms Can Halt Decline Of Research Universities
Education: NRC report lays out ways to neutralize the budget woes that threaten public universities
News in Brief: American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting
Highlights from the 220th AAAS meeting held June 10-14 in Anchorage, Alaska