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Lively spectrum auction turns regional
The government's sale of public airwaves, which is likely to result in new cellphone carriers, closed out its second week with more than $3.1 billion raised so far in what...
Human Mobility Study Meets Ethics Approval
Professor Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and his team have done groundbreaking research into the nature of human mobility, featured on the cover of Nature magazine's June 5 edition. A widely-circulated press article...
Newspapers run ads about fake airline Derrie-Air
(AP) -- Derrie-Air has been exposed. Readers of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News opened their papers Friday to see ads for a new airline called Derrie-Air, which...
A Futuristic Linkage Of Animals And Electronics
The same Global Positioning System (GPS) technology used to track vehicles is now being used to track cows. But animal scientists have taken tracking several steps further with a Walkman-like...
U.S. and U.K. Research Centers Launch Major Collaboration on Atmospheric Research, Technology
National research centers in the United States and United Kingdom have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate more closely on atmospheric science and technology. The agreement will enable the...
Hands On Learning For The Visually Impaired
European researchers have made it easy for software developers to build educational tools that let pupils collaborate to see, hear -- and now also feel -- what is on the...
School of Robofish provides basis for underwater robot teams
In the world of underwater robots, this is a team of pioneers. While most ocean robots require periodic communication with scientist or satellite intermediaries to share information, these can work...
Researchers Design Band-Aid-Size Tactile Display
Currently, we get most of our information from computers through visual and audio features. But as researchers from Korea point out, the most widespread sense on the human body is...
Eagle wounded by poacher gets new beak, new look
(AP) -- More than three years after a poacher shot off her upper beak, a bald eagle named Beauty can finally live up to her name - with the...
Air-powered Go-cart Hits The Track
It's Sunday afternoon. Thousands of fans cheer wildly as race cars fly by at speeds nearing 200 mph for 200 laps. They whiz down the pit road making pit stops,...
$45 trillion needed to fight global warming
“The world faces the daunting combination of surging energy demand, rising greenhouse gas emissions and tightening resources. A global energy technology revolution is both necessary and achievable; but it will...
Charles Arthur: Why power companies should pay for my wind turbine
If the future is to have scores of microgenerators hooked up to the national grid, power companies should pay us to erect wind turbines on our land
Sony TV Internet module tunes into YouTube
(AP) -- Coming to late-model Sony LCD flat panels: YouTube videos. Sony Corp. on Thursday said YouTube and Wired.com have been added to the video providers for a $300...
FCC chief's free broadband plan delayed
(AP) -- A plan by the nation's top telecommunications regulator to provide free wireless high-speed Internet service hit a snag this week over concerns about possible interference and a...
FDA warns Steris about sterilizer
WASHINGTON, June 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it has warned Steris Corp. the company may need to submit for re-approval of its System...
Taking Computer Chat To A Whole New Level
Natural spoken dialogue technology has long been a dream for many. Advances by European researchers are making this a reality. The results of their work could soon be used to...
The Modern-Day Rumor Mill
Just as "Gossip Girl" spills secrets onto the Internet, in real life, college students are using sites like JuicyCampus.com - where posts about people range from inappropriate . to insulting,...
Israel's Ethiopians Forced to Give Up Traditional Bread
Teff grain now costs nearly three times what it did a year ago, forcing expat Jews in Israel to abandon the injera bread they typically eat with meals. Part of...
Michigan, Florida share Fed autism grant
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., June 5 (UPI) -- Florida State University and the University of Michigan will share a $7 million federal grant to study the effects of early intervention...
FDA returns ProHeart 6 to the marketplace
WASHINGTON, June 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced a limited return of ProHeart 6, a reformulated heartworm prevention drug for dogs.
Review: Finally a useful digital pen
(AP) -- The pen, once mightier than the sword, has been getting trounced by the keyboard in the computer era. Now and then there's a push toward "pen-based computing"...
Terrorism risk determines homeland security spending
A new study in Policy Studies Journal reveals that measures of terrorism risk are found to be positive determinants of Homeland Security funding, while measures of political influence and party...
Africa's deserts could supply solar electricity to continent: experts
Solar power from Africa's deserts could supply all 600 million citizens currently without electricity and even export power to Europe, a green energy conference in Nairobi heard Thursday.
Off-road wheelchair for developing countries unveiled
A group of students from The University of Nottingham have designed an off-road wheelchair to help disabled people cope with rough terrain in developing countries.
How Can E-commerce be Made More Successful? -- Make it more Sensual, Study Says
Explosive growth of products for sale on the Internet does not always translate into financial success, due in large part to the fact that customers like to squeeze the produce....
Disney creates Google Earth map of Disney World
(AP) -- Tourists overwhelmed by the mind-boggling size of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., will now be able to plan their tour with the help of a 3D...
Broadcom co-founder faces conspiracy, drug charges
(AP) -- Federal officials unsealed two indictments Thursday charging Broadcom co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III with conspiracy and securities fraud relating to stock options backdating, as well as numerous...
Teenage Scientists from Around the World to Meet at Landmark Conference
Student scientists from the United States and around the world are converging in South Africa this month in what is likely to be one of the largest-ever international gatherings of...