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New Website Tracks $21 Billion in Stimulus Dollars for Science
In 2009, science got a hefty shot in the arm from the federal government's stimulus spending. Now U.S. citizens can see exactly how their taxpayer dollars go toward funding video games that...
iPhone Software That Controls Robot Movements (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- At the graduate school of media design at Keio University in Tokyo, a project called "Walky" is under developed. Researchers have developed specifically designed software for the iPhone...
Walking hazard: Cell-phone use - but not music - reduces pedestrian safety
Two new studies of pedestrian safety found that using a cell phone while hoofing it can endanger one's health. Older pedestrians, in particular, are impaired when crossing a busy (simulated)...
Twitter to overhaul user list seen as partisan
(AP) -- Social-networking site Twitter plans to end a service that links prominent message posters with new users, a service that was criticized in California because of perceived unfairness...
Plants prefer their kin, but crowd out competition when sharing a pot with strangers
Plants don't mind sharing space with their kin but when they're potted with strangers of the same species they start invigorating their leaves, a study by McMaster University reveals...
10 technologies that made news in 2009 and warrant watching in 2010
A first-of-its kind inhalable measles vaccine for developing countries, where the disease remains a scourge. A 'nanogenerator' that could recharge iPods and other electronic devices with a shake. And for...
Majority of Wyoming voters support new government oversight of food, Pew-commissioned poll finds
Washington, DC -- An overwhelming majority of Wyoming voters -- 88 percent -- support food safety legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) new...
Scientist at Work: Nathan Myhrvold: After Microsoft, Bringing a High-Tech Eye to Professional Kitchens
A Renaissance man named Nathan Myhrvold and his staff are working on a very special cookbook.
Vonage to settle investigation involving 32 states
(AP) -- Internet phone service provider Vonage Holdings Corp. has agreed to pay $3 million to 32 states to settle an investigation into some of its business practices.
UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News
Space shuttle Atlantis returns to space … CDC: Teen girls have highest STD rate … WHO urged to remove mercury from fillings … Software turns 2-D medical scans into 3-D...
Fresh hope for German stem-cell patent case
Referral to European Court may help to harmonize laws on intellectual property.
Georgia Tech Creates New Online Master's Degree in Information Security
Georgia Tech announces the creation of a new Master of Science in Information Security available online in a distance learning format, a flexible degree option for working information security professionals...
Hunger in U.S. at a 14-Year High
The number of Americans who lacked access to sufficient food shot up to its highest point since the government began surveying, the Agriculture Department reported.
The one thing depleting faster than oil is the credibility of those measuring it | George Monbiot
The challenge of feeding billions of people as fuel supplies fall is staggering. And yet leaders' heads remain stuck in the sandI don't know when global oil supplies will start to decline....
Software turns 2-D medical scans into 3-D
AMES, Iowa, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have created software that can convert flat medical scans into 3-D images that can be shifted, adjusted, zoomed and...
So Much For "Hopenhagen"
World leaders give up on signing a climate-change treaty at the COP 15 talks next month Over the weekend President Obama and other world leaders broke the news: No legally binding international climate-change...
Samsung, Acer team up with AT&T on netbooks
South Korea's Samsung and Taiwan's Acer are teaming up with US telecom giant AT&T to introduce low-priced netbook computers for the holiday shopping season.
UN demands removal of China poster at Net event
(AP) -- United Nations officials forced free-speech advocates to take down a poster over its reference to China's Web restrictions at an Internet conference focused on freedom, saying Monday...
Europe's first 'personalised paper' rolls off the presses
Billed as Europe's first "personalised paper", "niiu", a newspaper tailored to readers' individual wishes and delivered to their door before 08:00 am, made its first appearance in Berlin on Monday.
News Analysis: Obama Hobbled in Fight Against Global Warming
President Obama’s ambitions are limited by a Congress that is unwilling to move as far or as fast as he would like.
Reg Windett obituary
Former wartime RAF pilot, he worked for the MoD helping to create the first radio approach system for planesThe great throng at the funeral of my friend Reg Windett, who has died...
The future of private equity
Although global private equity markets have fallen on hard times, reports of their imminent demise are greatly exaggerated. So says Steve Kaplan, a widely recognized authority on entrepreneurial finance and...
Internet rights poster sparks UN fight
The United Nations is drawing fire after disrupting a meeting of rights activists at its internet governance convention in Egypt.
Cisco raises bid for Tandberg to $3.4 billion
(AP) -- Cisco Systems Inc. said Monday it raised its bid for Norway's Tandberg ASA after only a fraction of Tandberg shareholders agreed to Cisco's initial offer.
IBM makes Big Blue cloud
IBM on Monday announced it has created the world's largest business computing "cloud" capable of holding an amount of digital data on a par with 250 billion iTunes songs.
Finnish technology workers warn of strike
(AP) -- Some 2,000 employees in Finland's technology sector will begin a strike in two weeks time if no agreement is reached in labor talks with company managers, union...
Chinese NASDAQ brings little to chemicals industry
Chinese chemical industry misses out on bonanza brought by long-awaited Growth Enterprise Market, the Chinese version of the NASDAQ
Harvard Medical School grad heads for International Space Station
In an era when elementary schoolchildren can create exciting new worlds and explore them with the click of a computer mouse, will we again see bold explorers like Lewis and Clark or...