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MIT goes to Copenhagen
MIT professors, students and alumni have joined representatives from nearly 200 nations at the international U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, where they will present research, collaborate with other schools on climate change...
Scores Arrested at Climate Talks Protests
Nearly 200 more arrests were made overnight as protesters, angered by the lack of progress, set fire to makeshift barricades in Copenhagen’s Christiania neighborhood.
Lawmakers seek emergency steps to halt Asian carp
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Members of Congress are demanding emergency action to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes and devastating their $7 billion...
Apple To Try New Digital Music Tack?
CEO Of Apple's Newly-Acquired Music Service Could Be Key If iTunes Moves Into Streaming Music
India 3G auction to be held on schedule: minister
India's long-awaited auction for third generation (3G) mobile telecom services will be held on schedule next month, a minister said Friday, dismissing media speculation of a delay.
November US video game retail sales slide
(AP) -- A market researcher says Americans spent 8 percent less on video games in November than in the same month last year.
Woods scandal spikes internet traffic
The Tiger Woods scandal has triggered a mammoth spike in traffic to websites, with Yahoo claiming searches for information about the disgraced golfer up 4,000-fold.
AT&T Wants iPhone Users To Change Habits
Company Mulls Incentives To Curb Heavy Wireless Data Usage
Real Christmas trees ‘greener’ than fake
It may not sound like "tree-hugging," but cutting down a real tree for Christmas is actually greener than going with the artificial kind, one scientist says. ...
Video: Loaded: Santa and his GPS sleigh
Panasonic buys a controlling stake in Sanyo, Friendster gets acquired by a Malaysian online payment company, and how to track Santa on Christmas Eve over Google Earth.
First submersible robot glider to cross Atlantic makes landfall in Spain
The Scarlet Knight, the first submersible robot glider to cross the Atlantic, made its formal entrance into the port of Baiona Dec. 9, received by Spanish and American government officials,...
Breakthrough in monitoring tropical deforestation announced in Copenhagen
New technology is revolutionizing forest monitoring by marrying free satellite imagery and powerful analytical methods in an easy-to-use, desktop software package called CLASlite. Thus far, 70 government, non-government and academic...
Helpful or creepy? Overpersonalized Web sites may spook shoppers
Michael Redding describes the get-to-know-you game between man and machine as a version of "Name That Tune."
Formula to detect an author's literary 'fingerprint'
Using literature written by Thomas Hardy, DH Lawrence and Herman Melville, physicists in Sweden have developed a formula to detect different authors' literary 'fingerprints'.
AOL gets independence from Time Warner on Thursday
(AP) -- AOL is becoming an independent Internet company again.
Science faces 'bleak' £600m cuts
Campaigners say the UK Treasury's plans to find £600m of savings in higher education science budgets make for "bleak reading" .
Study: How restaurants reap higher wine sales
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell study has identified four strategies that restaurants use to reap higher wine sales: including the wine list on the food menu and listing prices without a...
New Gunsight Improves Marksmanship With Intuitive Aim, Says Vision Scientist
The pistol gunsight has remained unchanged for more than a century. That is bad news for the eye and brain, which has a lot to process during aiming, says a...
Variety to begin charging for Web access Thursday
(AP) -- The Hollywood trade newspaper Variety is putting its Web site behind a "pay wall" starting Thursday. That means it will be reserving its online content for paid...
Response: GM is still a vital part of our global future food security
Technical innovation in food crop production would benefit all sectors of societyGM technology need not reinforce "the monopolistic ambitions of agribusiness" and its "ability to control the very food we eat", as suggested...
Class-action suit pits woman against 'dishonest' ads on Facebook
A 41-year-old part-time dance instructor and graphic designer from Santa Cruz is the face of a class-action lawsuit designed to force Web sites that offer social gaming to rein in...
Apple on track to launch tablet device next year, analysts say
Apple Inc. is on track to launch a much-anticipated, tablet-sized computing device early next year, according to brokerage reports Wednesday.
Ubiquitous in U.S., Google struggles for market share in China
In China, Google means underdog. While the Mountain View company dominates the search market in the United States, it is not part of the pop lexicon on the other side...
Man. to spend $22.5M creating eHealth system
A multi-million dollar contract for the design of an electronic health records system for Manitoba has been awarded to a group led by IBM.
IBM Introduces New System z Linux Solutions for Large-Scale Consolidation and Savings
IBM today announced new Linux offerings for the System z mainframe to help clients run smarter and more efficient data centers that maximize the use of IT resources and reduce...
Students Hone Engineering Skills in Robotics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Robots have fascinated future engineers for generations. Recently, a group of young students had an opportunity to design and build their own robots using LEGOs, the popular plastic...
China shuts down file-sharing site
China has closed one of the country's largest file-sharing sites in what it says is a fight against copyright infringement, but could be seen as another measure aimed at controlling...
Life as a scientist in South-East Asia
From Cambodia to Singapore, Shiow Chin Tan finds the situation for scientists varies enormously across South-East Asia.