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Isaac Newton's Apple Tree Grows at Tufts
Thanks to collaboration between Tufts and MIT physicists, Tufts University has received cuttings from an apple tree that traces to the English farm where Sir Isaac Newton lived. The...
Scientists Create Hybrid System of Human-Machine Interaction
In a groundbreaking study, scientists at FAU have created a "hybrid" system to examine real-time interactions between humans and machines (virtual partners). By pitting human against machine, they open up...
Cells Are Like Robust Computational Systems, Scientists Report
Gene regulatory networks in cell nuclei are similar to cloud computing networks, such as Google or Yahoo!, researchers report in the journal Molecular Systems Biology. The similarity is that each...
N.B. pensions have $21M in tobacco companies
While one branch of the New Brunswick government has been suing large tobacco companies, another branch has $21 million invested in them, investment records show.
Some apricot kernels recalled in Canada
OTTAWA, June 16 (UPI) -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a warning about consuming Our Father's Farm-brand apricot kernels in excessive amounts.
New cell phone technology is created
DURHAM, N.C., June 16 (UPI) -- U.S. engineers have created a technology that allows a person to write a note in the air with their cell phone and...
Social smokers: Turning the tables on big tobacco
The tobacco industry knows exactly what makes social smokers tick. Now, researchers want to use that once-secret information to help them quit...
Bike Sharing Gets an Electric Update
Bike sharing is an urban transportation program gaining popularity worldwide, providing public bicycles at designated points around a city--find it, ride it, drop it off at a kiosk down the...
Carl Linnaeus Invented The Index Card
Carl Linnaeus is most famous as the father of modern taxonomy. What’s not so well known is that in his effort to manage vast amounts of data, he came up...
Going green is where the jobs are
With over three million jobs across Europe, green economic activities are overtaking polluting industries in terms of employment, says a new WWF study...
Education and business hand in hand
But universities and colleges must have freedom to deliver what students want, says new secretary of state Peter Mandelson
The case for using green solvents in HPLC
Greening up HPLC doesn’t necessarily mean diminished performance, say US scientists
PE requirement isn't enough to fight obesity
(AP) -- The gym at Eberhart Elementary School is bright and spacious - with high ceilings, several basketball hoops, even a large, colorful climbing wall.
CBO: Senate bill $1 trillion over 10 years
(AP) -- A leading health care bill under consideration in Congress would cost the government an estimated $1 trillion over the next decade and reduce the ranks of the...
SKorea military networks under growing cyber attack
South Korea's military computer networks are under ever-growing cyber attack with 95,000 cases reported daily on average, officials said Tuesday.
Tobacco Regulation Is Expected to Face a Free-Speech Challenge
Congress would like to stop young people from smoking, but opponents say the marketing and advertising restrictions in the measure don’t abide by the First Amendment.
Video: New iPhone's Tough Competition
Apple announced the third generation of the iPhone during their developers' conference. As Daniel Sieberg reports, it will support a video camera and voice control.
Facebook Vanity URLs Coming Saturday
Move To Personalized Names From Random Numbers Should Boost "People Search" Traffic
TV Conversion Countdown: Are You Ready?
Despite Efforts To Prepare Americans For DTV, Millions Will Face A Blank Screen Starting Friday At 12:01 a.m
New Role For Web In Iranian Politics
Internet-Savvy Campaign Hopes To Bring Down President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad In Election
New "Wave" E-Mailing
Rafe Needleman Demos Google Wave, Which Lets Users Correspond And Collaborate In Real Time
Video: Facing The Music
After a thirty-year run, music compact discs, (CDs) may soon go the way of eight track tapes. The closing of two major retail outlets may signal the end of an...
Tesla Motors CEO: Gas Should Be $10/Gallon
"I'm Anti-Tax, But I'm Pro-Carbon Tax," Says Elon Musk, Whose Company Has Put Out Electric Sports Car
Amazon To Google: Stay Away From Book Biz
Kindle Flourishing, But Amazon CEO Bezos Unhappy At Google's Attempted Entry To Digital Publishing
Drayson supports oversight call
Lord Drayson says he supports a move to re-establish the old House of Commons Science and Technology committee.
Machu Picchu Is Mini Re-creation of a Mythic Landscape?
The Inca landmark was a pilgrimage site and a scaled-down version of a mythic landscape, not an imperial estate, according to a controversial new study.
UC San Diego first public university to provide its own iPhone application
The University of California, San Diego this week became the first public university in the nation to offer an iPhone application that provides mobile access to the latest information about...
Apple's laptop price cuts help consumers, could expand market share
The weak economy is forcing even Apple to have a Blue Light Special. Last week, the Cupertino, Calif., company cut prices from 5 percent to 15 percent on most MacBook...