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Google Voice 'light' works with existing cell phone numbers
Google Voice, the service that can route calls to multiple phone numbers and access voice mail, is now available on users' existing cell phone numbers.
Funding A Greener Grid: How Obama plans to spend billions on modernizing the U.S. electrical network
President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that his administration plans to spend $3.4 billion on producing a safer, more efficient electrical grid. Obama underscored the need to find clean forms...
Dalhousie, U of T ranked among best places for scientists
Two Canadian universities have been named to The Scientist magazine's top 10 best places to work in academia outside of the U.S.
Consumer electronics can help improve patient health
Electronic tools and technology applications for consumers can help improve health care processes, such as adherence to medication and clinical outcomes like smoking cessation, according to a report by researchers...
Crushing Cigarettes In A Virtual Reality Environment Reduces Tobacco Addiction
Smokers who crushed computer-simulated cigarettes as part of a psychosocial treatment program in a virtual reality environment had significantly reduced nicotine dependence and higher rates of tobacco abstinence than smokers...
Hybrid automaker Fisker to buy shuttered GM plant
Budding US hybrid car maker Fisker Automotive will reopen a shuttered General Motors plant in Delaware to build fuel-efficient, plug-in cars, the White House announced Tuesday.
Blinkx adds music video search tool
Online video search engine blinkx launched a new tool Tuesday to find and watch music videos on the Internet.
War may have spread hybrid rice
Against expectations, West African rice varieties have interbred in the field — and war may have helped these improved hybrids spread.
Ghosts And Hauntings
In looking at the concept of a ghost, the first problem one encounters is defining exactly what is meant by such an apparition. It seems that the general view over...
Computer Modeling Can Contribute to Thai Soybean Production
(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are testing the soybean model GLYCIM to improve its performance under a range of conditions around the world. In the process, they`ve been...
Telus sacks system access fee
Telus has become the first of the big three Canadian wireless companies to drop the hated system access fee - and not replace it with a new charge.
New Research to Follow College Students' Use of Smokeless Tobacco Products
Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have received a $2.9 million federal grant to study smokeless tobacco use among college students and plan to follow them over three...
How Do We Fund Plant Breeding?
Plant breeding industry stakeholders discuss public-private partnerships; commercialization strategies now driving public programs; the impact of foundations in targeted support for cultivar development; and national and global programs that may...
N.B. studying cellphone driving bans
New Brunswick Public Safety Minister John Foran is defending the province's slow movement toward imposing restrictions on cellphone use while driving.
B.C. man under scrutiny for cancer-cure claims
A business owner in Langley, B.C., is under scrutiny by the federal competition bureau, after a customer complains about how he markets unapproved medical devices to cancer patients.
Waterloo Global Science Initiative Announced
University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute to Host International Conference to Help Advance Science Policy-making.
NCI Funds New $13 Million Microenvironment and Metastasis Research Center Led by Cornell
Adding potent research firepower and fresh physical perspectives to combat cancer, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has funded the new Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis, which will be headquartered...
Can Bumble Bees Fill Pollination Void?
A recent study at Oregon State University has shown that native bumble bee species have high pollination and seed production levels in red clover. These findings offer promise for alternative...
Researchers Study Materials, Combustion, Cancer with New �T-ray� Instrument
Iowa State University researchers are beginning to work with a new $500,000 terahertz ray instrument that provides a new way to measure and characterize materials. The instrument should produce useful...
One tonne 'Baby' goes mobile
(PhysOrg.com) -- It took a one-tonne computer the size of a room to run a simple mathematics program in 1948 - but now computer scientists have made it available on...
IAC reports 3Q profit but ad revenue still slips
(AP) -- IAC/InterActiveCorp, which runs Match.com, Ask.com and other Web sites, said Tuesday that asset sales helped it profit in the third quarter while advertising revenue continued to slump.
Chinese paper accuses Google of hampering searches
(AP) -- Google Inc. faces a new controversy in China after a Web site run by the Communist Party's main newspaper accused the U.S. search giant of trying to...
Facebook for scientists: Map your expertise
(PhysOrg.com) -- Indiana University has received more than $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to collaborate on a $12.2 million, seven-university project designed to network researchers around the...
Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox Enables Users to Maximize SSD Performance over Time
On the heels of the Microsoft Windows 7 introduction, Intel Corporation today announced the availability of the Intel Solid-State Drive (SSD) Toolbox, with Intel SSD Optimizer and firmware update, for...
Scientists reject economic impact assessment
Thousands of researchers sign a petition objecting to economic impact assessments in Research Excellence Framework proposals
India's Wipro posts 19 percent rise in profits
India's third-largest software group Wipro on Tuesday reported a 19-percent rise in net profit and forecast improving demand, underscoring new optimism in the sector.
Pilots used laptop computers while straying off course
Two distracted US pilots were using laptop computers against company rules last week when they overshot their destination by some 150 miles (240 kilometers), federal investigators said.
Metallica debuts finger-tapping app in iPhone
(AP) -- Headbangers will have a reason to steady their gaze a bit starting Tuesday, when rock band Metallica makes its way onto iPhones with a finger-tapping music app...