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Scientists Crack Potato's Genetic Code
Breakthrough Will Help Speed Development of New Crops for World's Most Popular Vegetable
The Sum Of All Knowledge? Yep, And Open Access Too
You can think of it as the United Nations of knowledge - except no dictators wearing pistols are allowed to get up and spout nonsense. Or you could think of...
Desalination Technology Increases Naval Capabilities
The next generation of technology to turn saltwater into a fresh resource is on tap for the Navy. The Office of Naval Research is sponsoring the development of an innovative...
Augmented Google Earth Gets Real-Time People, Cars, Clouds
Researchers from Georgia Tech have devised methods to take real-time, real-world information and layer it onto Google Earth, adding dynamic information to the previously sterile Googlescape. They use live video feeds (sometimes from many...
In The World: A better way to beat around the bush
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many residents of New Longoro, a small village in the countryside of Ghana, are small-scale farmers, and one of the crops they grow is groundnuts - what...
Public Must Be Involved In Nanotech Policy Debate, Report Urges
Decision-making on science -- especially emerging technologies such as nanotechnology -- must become more democratic, a new report on science policy released today argues. The group of leading European academics...
Aglukkaq wants answers on body bag shipments
Canada's health minister still doesn't know why dozens of body bags were sent to remote Manitoba First Nations a week ago in preparation for a second wave of swine flu...
ID card can learn lessons from history
(PhysOrg.com) -- Identity theft is increasingly prevalent in today's society, yet we have repeatedly failed to develop a reliable technology of identification to prevent misuse and forgery.
Simmons plans to file for bankruptcy protection
(AP) -- Simmons Co., the maker of Beautyrest mattresses, said Friday that it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a move that will put new owners...
Digital Fingerprints Led Feds to Zazi
Investigators Followed a Digital Path to Track Down the Incriminating Evidence on Suspected Terrorist
Palau to create shark sanctuary
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Palau is banning commercial shark fishing and asking other nations to follow suit, the republic's president said before a Friday United Nation's address.
N.B. bids to keep Canadian Blood Services office
The New Brunswick government is offering to help keep the Canadian Blood Services office in the province by agreeing to pay for an expansion of the Saint John office.
RIM's weaker forecast hits stock
Shares of Research In Motion Ltd. fell sharply in after-hours trading on Thursday.
Code breakthrough delivers safer computing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer researchers at UNSW and NICTA have achieved a breakthrough in software which will deliver significant increases in security and reliability and has the potential to be a...
Active Shutter 3D Technology for HDTV
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony and Panasonic have recently announced a new technology, called "active shutter" for producing the experience of 3D on high definition TVs. The first models are expected to...
Waze turning road warriors into map builders
Technology startup Waze is tapping into the collective knowledge of road warriors in order to make life more pleasant for drivers while creating reliable street maps.
3 Questions: Phillip Sharp on new biology
Last week, a panel co-chaired by MIT Institute Professor Phillip Sharp called for the United States to launch a new biology initiative to accelerate breakthroughs that could solve some of society's most pressing...
From nature, robots
To a robot designer like Sangbae Kim, the animal kingdom is full of inspiration. "I always look at animals and ask why they are the way they are," says Kim, an assistant professor...
Forest Service Web-based tool helps manage environmental risk
The U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) recently launched the Comparative Risk Assessment Framework and Tools (CRAFT), a user-friendly, Web-based support system that helps natural resource...
Hummer Owners Claim Moral High Ground To Excuse Overconsumption, Study Finds
Hummer drivers believe they are defending America's frontier lifestyle against anti-American critics, according to a new study.
The Rapture Industry
Well, it seems that someone has finally decided that with all this talk of "end-times" and the "rapture" it was important that we have a more scientific approach to determining...
Online payment startup Zuora wants to rescue newspapers
Tien Tzuo on Wednesday called on fellow technology entrepreneurs to join him on a quest to rescue newspapers that are dying as their readers get stories free on the Internet.
Google apologizes for Gmail outage
Google apologized Thursday for a Gmail outage which left some users of the free Web-based email service cut off for the second time in a month.
Social online TV and invisible speakers among "DEMOgods"
An online network for farmers, social Internet television, and invisible speakers were among startups taking laurels this week at the DEMO technology conference here known as a launch pad for...
Video: The Problem with Imaging Tests
CAT scans, MRIs, and other imaging tests help find everything from blood clots to brain tumors. But is too much of a good thing coming at a troubling cost in...
HP offers 2010 outlook in line with estimates
(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. said Thursday that its revenue and profit in its next fiscal year should be in line with what analysts were expecting.
Broadband campaign spurs 20,000 letters to MPs
A public relations and lobbying campaign launched by small internet providers for government intervention in the broadband market has spurred more than 20,000 letters to MPs, the companies say.
Smart Houses And Contextual Patterns
A few years ago, I was spending a good bit of my time on context-based services. User context — also called “presence” — is information, which changes over time, about...