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Iqaluit retiree not on hook for boarding home bill
Retired Anglican minister Michael Gardener 'will not pay a penny' to the Nunavut government after he was billed $17,000 for staying at an Ottawa medical boarding home, said Health Minister...
Buying Green Can Be License For Bad Behavior, Study Finds
Just being around green products can make us behave more altruistically, a new study in Psychological Science has found. But buying those same products can have the opposite effect. Researchers...
Senate panel to vote on health care bill next week
(AP) -- The Senate's top Democrat on Thursday accused Republicans of a strategy of "distortion, distractions and deception" on health care as he announced a pivotal committee will vote...
Banking On Outlier Detection: Simple Computer Model Could Act As Early Warning System For Failing Banks
Recent bank failures point to the continuing need for vigilance by regulators and investors. Now, a new report discusses the possibility of an early-warning system that spots the outliers before...
E-reader sales soaring but Apple captures the buzz
Sales of electronic book readers are booming, companies are jostling for a share of the fledgling market and Amazon's going global with the Kindle.
FBI smashes US-Egypt cyber 'phishing' ring
Investigators in the United States and Egypt have smashed a computer "phishing" identity theft scam described as the biggest cyber-crime investigation in US history, officials said Wednesday.
Study: Some stock repurchase plans just empty promises
A new study backs longtime speculation on Wall Street that companies sometimes ballyhoo stock repurchase programs they never plan to pursue, hoping to stir a buzz that will mislead investors...
Video: Loaded: Facebook panic
Microsoft announces Windows Phone, CNET will tell you if the cellular network in your city is a dud, and an internal glitch locks members out of Facebook.
Environment: The disappearing nutrient
Phosphate-based fertilizers have helped spur agricultural gains in the past century, but the world may soon run out of them. Natasha Gilbert investigates the potential phosphate crisis.
Prizes Aside, the P-NP Puzzler Has Consequences
The solving of a grand math challenge in the fields of theoretical computer science and complexity theory has garnered interest, but no real answers.
EU prepares to settle Microsoft browser case
(AP) -- European Union regulators said Wednesday they were preparing to settle a long and costly antitrust battle with Microsoft Corp. with a deal to give Windows users a...
The Food Issue: Rules to Eat By
For all the authority we grant to science in matters of nutrition, culture still has a lot to teach us about how to choose, prepare and eat food.
Reform tsar struggles to take Russia into nanoworld
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian economic reform architect Anatoly Chubais hopes to marshal oligarch investment into establishing Russia as a world leader in high-tech nanoscience, helping wean his country off dependency...
Many recover from back pain
Back pain is usually considered a lasting problem – but in a recent study, almost half of the people recovered within a year.
Google Street View goes live in Canadian cites
Google Street View, a feature of Google Maps that shows high-resolution street-level images on the internet, has gone live in several Canadian cities.
Human Brain, Like Google Maps, Creates Multiple Independent Maps While Finding The Way In Physical World
Through the power of Google Earth, you can travel the globe from the comfort of your computer screen, peering down on everything from above. But once you change your perspective...
Super-thin flexible OLED from Sony
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony is showing off prototypes incorporating its super-thin, flexible OLED technology at the CREATEC JAPAN 2009 IT and electronics trade show in Makuhari Messe (Chiba) in Japan.
Google widens lead over Bing and Yahoo!: Hitwise
Experian Hitwise reported that Bing and Yahoo! online search engines lost ground in the United States in September while Google inched ahead slightly.
3 Questions: Robert Solow on the struggle ahead
Economist Robert Solow's seminal work in the 1950s and 1960s showed how new technologies create a large portion of economic growth, an achievement for which he was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in...
European Court Sides With Drug Companies Over Pricing Matter
The decision, in a case involving GlaxoSmithKline, is a blow to governments in northern Europe looking to keep costs down.
In Schools, New Rules on Snacks for Sale
The new snacks and drinks will be more nutritious — but probably less popular, as the estimate of future income for schools from vending machines is revised downward.
Conservation Conundrum - Discouraging Sportsmen Has Meant Less Money For Conservation
There is a subset of people in the environmental conservation movement who hate their fellow man - they like nature but don't think anyone outside of their companies should enjoy...
Growing Greener Greens: Research Could 'Biofortify' Cabbages And Their Relatives
A pioneering project to make our green vegetables even better for us has been launched by scientists in the UK. The research will underpin future technological developments in agriculture that...
Floating House Makes Debut in New Orleans
Built through Brad Pitt's Foundation, House Capable of Floating atop Floodwaters
Health in low-income countries: Outsourcing and cash incentives may help
Contracting private providers of healthcare services and giving cash incentives to patients are two strategies that have been proposed to increase access to healthcare in low income countries.
CDF Kisses Another New Physics Effect Bye-Bye
Do you remember the "e-e-gamma-gamma-met" event ? I am sure you do not. It is an incredibly striking event that appeared toward the end of the Tevatron Run I in...
Ont. health minister resigns
Ontario's health minister has resigned one day before the release of a report into spending scandals at an agency tasked with creating electronic health records in the province.
AT&T allowing Skype iPhone calls over cell network
AT&T, the biggest U.S. cellphone provider, is allowing Apple iPhone users to use Skype over its cellphone network, a move that will significantly lower the cost of local and international...