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Obama vows health plan will work
U.S. President Barack Obama continued to promote his national health-care plan on Saturday, promising to "get this right," while marchers in Washington denounced the proposal.
Loopt shows iPhone a new trick
Apple's iPhone has been a sensation from its launch -- even if, digitally speaking, it can't walk and chew gum at the same time. There are now more than 65,000...
Obama’s Plan Builds on Others’ Ideas
In a bid to build support for health care reform, the president added just a few new twists to the principles he laid out last winter.
Video: Steve Jobs Back To Work
Apple's Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs made his first public appearance since having a liver transplant. Jobs also introduced a new version of Apple's iTunes store and new pricing for...
Money won't buy happiness
There is more to life satisfaction than money, and public policy programs aiming to tackle poverty need to move beyond simply raising people's income to also improving their quality of...
iCub, the Toddler Robot (w/ Videos, Pictures)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A little humanoid robot called iCub is learning how to think for itself, bringing the world of science fiction to reality. The major goal of the "RobotCub" project...
Shopping around key to a smaller food bill
Shoppers face a complex and time-consuming task to get the best deal, depending on the store they buy food from and the item involved according to a new booklet "Public...
Win six cracking science books shortlisted for Royal Society prize
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AOL taps exec who famously warned Yahoo of trouble
(AP) -- AOL LLC has tapped former Yahoo Inc. executive Brad Garlinghouse for a key position that is meant to beef up the struggling Internet company's presence in Silicon...
Study pushes the button on intuitive design
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Queensland University of Technology researcher is looking for volunteers to take part in a study aimed at making contemporary appliances such as dvd players and mobile phones...
Scientists develop drug detection technology
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Leicester researchers have combined crime research and space-age technology in ways that could lead to the quick detection of counterfeit pharmaceuticals in a black market currently...
Watermelon's Hidden Killer: Researchers Seek Disease-resistant Cultivars To Sustain Watermelon Crop Production
Watermelon vine decline is a new and emerging disease that has created devastating economic losses for watermelon producers in Florida. Caused by the whitefly-transmitted squash vein yellowing virus, the disease...
Cities Less Dangerous Than Rural Regions, Traffic Accident Study Shows
Transportation researchers in Germany analyzed traffic accident statistics and came to a surprising result: city dwellers have less severe traffic accidents than rural inhabitants. This invalidates one of the most...
Balzan Prizewinners 2009 Announced
One Million Swiss Francs (Around $ 940 Thousand, € 660 Thousand) for Each Subject. Half of the Amount Must be Destined to Research Milan, September 7, 2009 - The names of the...
GTRI Develops New Technologies to Secure Cargo Containers
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) demonstrated two cargo container security systems at a recent event sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Security and Science: Nuclear Proliferation
One of the larger topics concerning international security and science is the nuclear proliferation among states and potentially non-state actors. The genie has been let of the bottle so to...
Recycling Food Scraps into Gardens
Each weekday, food scraps are collected from the Maryland Food Distribution Authority in Jessup, Md., and from small local food service and marketing establishments. Materials that do not contain metal,...
Belief, how European e-Infrastructure makes a difference (w/ Video)
Europe has turned its early belief and investment in the potential of e-Infrastructures and virtual research into a position of great strength, especially in e-Science and grid technology, such as...
Researcher using melons to create ethanol
LANE, Okla., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. Agriculture Department researcher in Lane, Okla., says he has discovered a way to turn watermelons into ethanol.
Video: Gourmet Space Food
It turns out the food that astronauts eat in space is not that bad. N.A.S.A. has worked hard to make it's space food tastier than ever, Debbye Turner Bell...
Google China confident despite loss of Lee
(AP) -- The new managers of Google Inc.'s China arm expressed confidence Monday the business can grow despite the departure of the high-profile executive credited with expanding its share...
Congress weighs landmark change in Web ad privacy
(AP) -- The Web sites we visit, the online links we click, the search queries we conduct, the products we put in virtual shopping carts, the personal details we...
Cheat-Resistant 3D IPhone Game Relies On Score-Checking Replays
Aliens are stealing your beloved sheep and you've got to stop them. That's the premise for TowerMadness, a new 3D iPhone game that is one of the most cheat-resistant iPhone...
$3bn benefit of 'closing the gap'
Australia's economy will be $3 billion healthier if Indigenous people in remote communities are able to participate more fully, a report has found.
Improving Science Education
I received an interesting question today from an Alex Ziller in the comments thread of a recent post. Here it is: Do you think blogging actually improves Science? (I know, one...
Einstein has an H’ Index of 1?
One of the biggest axioms of management is “what cannot be measured cannot be managed”.Unfortunately this is a truism that effects scientists as much as the rest of the world. ...
The new NIH wish list
I just returned from the NIH where I was invited to lecture on translating science into therapies. I had presented my science there before and I was not quite sure...
SKorean TV giants tout differing technologies
The world's top two makers of flat-panel televisions are stressing the energy-saving virtues of different display technologies in their race to dominate a huge global market.