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New study provides insight on energy development and sage-grouse habitat in the intermountain West
A study released 14th October in the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE will shed new light on oil and gas development potential in the Intermountain West. Maps...
Slipstream: When 2+2 Equals a Privacy Question
Some privacy advocates wonder whether rules for electronic records offer enough protection.
Bioenergy Perspectives In Developing Countries
It is estimated that biomass covers currently up to 15% of the world energy demand, almost 1/3 of all energy consumption in the Less-Developed Countries. This rate was over the...
Congress passes hydrogren car funding bill
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Congress has passed an appropriations bill providing funds for hydrogen car development that critics say is unrealistic and a waste of money.
British hacker gets more time to fight US extradition
A Briton accused of hacking into US military and NASA space agency computers was on Saturday given more time to fight his extradition to the United States, officials and lawyers...
Mum's the word at Vegas blogging convention
For years, the stereotypical blogger was a geek yammering on about the latest technoglogy or a celebrity-obsessed scribe dishing about Paris, Lindsay and Madonna.
Frustrated Liberal Lawmaker Balances Beliefs and Politics
Representative Earl Blumenauer, a liberal from Portland, Ore., had faith that President Obama and Democrats in Congress would yield progressive advances. It has been, he says, “a hard landing.”
New Robot Delivers Snacks
Snackbot is an autonomous mobile robot whose mission is to bring tasty treats.
Rio youth use GPS phones to put favelas on map
Rio's favelas are home to a third of the city's population, but are almost invisible on maps -- a situation five young women are trying to change with the help...
Jackson "This Is It" album to sell at iTunes
Apple on Friday confirmed that Michael Jackson's "This Is It" music compilation will be available at online shop iTunes a day before the release of the compact disc version.
Scientists try to calm '2012' hysteria
As an upcoming action movie fuels Internet rumors, several scientists make public statements: The world will not end in 2012, and Earth is not going to crash into a rogue...
Big City: A Transplant Patient Finds That the Force Is Still With Him
David Ware, the renowned saxophonist, did not want a kidney transplant, fearing that someone else’s life force would be inside him. He was wrong.
Differing Long-term Effects Of Hand-held Cellphone Bans On Driver Hand-held Cellphone Use
Phoning while driving and texting behind the wheel are in the news. This is the highway safety issue of the moment, the subject of cartoons and, on a more serious...
Sign up for health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts for savings
Know the difference between the accounts, and consider high-deductible plans as well. ...
Electric bikes are all green (colors vary)
"Ride up steep hills without huffing and puffing!" "Hammer at 20 mph without breaking a sweat!" At the recent Interbike trade show in Las Vegas, an explosion of companies touted...
Marketers want anti-spam bill altered
The Canadian Marketing Association is lobbying MPs to change an anti-spam bill so that consumers have to opt out of receiving commercial email messages, rather than opting in to get...
Thomas Edison's 'failed' concrete piano sings
Beautiful arpeggios and even entire sweet sonatas can indeed emerge from a piano made of concrete, as famed inventor Thomas Edison envisioned.
A Cleanup Deal In Michigan
Environment: Proposed agreement between Dow, EPA would govern cleanup of dioxin.
I Thawte I Saw A CAcert
Around three and a half years ago, I posted an item in my personal blog about public key infrastructure.[1] In it, I mentioned two certificate authorities from which one could...
Americans Flunk News Quiz
Americans score well below a D grade, at 44 percent, on some current events.
India's TCS announces 29 pct quarterly profit jump
India's biggest software services exporter, TCS, reported Friday that its quarterly net profit rose by 29 percent as the company sealed more deals in a better global business environment.
Lip Plumper Truly Sucks
A web site offers a thing called JolieLips Lip Plumping. Don't try this at home.
Indian regulator endorses first GM vegetable
The Indian government will now consult the public before deciding whether to agree with regulators and approve GM aubergine.
Maths Research Tackles Problems of Bike + Car
(PhysOrg.com) -- The efforts to get more people out of cars and on their bikes in the UK could be being hampered by Governments' own transport strategies, claims new research...
New Software Could Smooth Supercomputing Speed Bumps
Supercomputers have long been an indispensable, albeit expensive, tool for researchers who need to make sense of vast amounts of data. One way that researchers have begun to make high-speed computing more powerful...
Wal-Mart offers new books for $10
(AP) -- A price war has broken out in the book world. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced Thursday that its online site, walmart.com, would charge just $10, with free shipping,...
Ciena wins court approval for Nortel unit bid
(AP) -- Ciena Corp. won court approval Thursday to start bidding on Nortel Network Corp.'s optical and Ethernet division with an offer valued at more than $532 million.
1,001 Cameras See In Gigapixels
As manufacturers of consumer digital cameras compete in increments, adding one or two megapixels to their latest models, one researcher is thinking much bigger. Working with the U.S. Department of...