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Technology Improves Salmon Passage At Hydropower Dams
Acoustic tags and numerical river models are two technologies that are helping improve salmon passage at the Columbia Basin's hydroelectric dams. An average of 76 percent of juvenile Chinook salmon...
Improved air quality during Beijing Olympics could inform pollution-curbing policies
The air in Beijing during the 2008 Olympics was cleaner than the previous year's, due to aggressive efforts by the Chinese government to curtail traffic, increase emissions standards and halt...
Researchers create 'bacteria computers'
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., July 23 (UPI) -- Researchers report creating what they call "bacterial computers" which potentially can solve complicated human mathematical problems.
Devoted people have deeper loyalties
NEW YORK, July 24 (UPI) -- Loyalty may be a predictable step toward taking a principled stand on an issue, researchers studying social injustice and anger said.
Robot Trash Collectors Are Roaming the Streets of Italy (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the city of Peccioli in the Tuscany region of Italy a robot called DustCart has been zipping through the streets. This is part of a $3.9 million...
Next-generation sound systems to minimise background noise
(PhysOrg.com) -- The whole listening experience in cars, cinemas, theatres, and even during videoconferences, is likely to improve radically thanks to a new set of tools for application development being...
AP creates news registry to guard online content
The Associated Press, the largest U.S. wire service, will create a news registry to track how all its content is used online.
Patient Money: Buying a Hearing Aid? You’ve Got a Lot to Learn
Costs and the ability to pick up sounds are just two factors to consider when shopping for a device.
P.E.I. dominates Atlantic video game industry
A recent funding announcement from the Canada New Media Fund shows P.E.I. is dominating the industry, says a provincial group.
Cash for Clunkers: Smart or Stupid?
You can get cash vouchers for that old gas-guzzling clunker under the new $1 billion federal Car Allowance Rebate System.
Palm Pre reconnects with estranged iTunes
(AP) -- Palm Inc.'s Pre phone can again connect to Apple's iTunes software - just a week after Apple Inc. shut it out.
Recreating 17th century Manhattan
To create liveable cities in the future, Eric Sanderson looked to the past and recreated the environment of Manhattan in 1609 when Henry Hudson sailed into New York harbour
Samsung Electronics posts 'outstanding' Q2 results
Samsung Electronics Co., the world's leading computer memory chipmaker, on Friday posted what it called "outstanding" second-quarter results due to a recovery in prices and demand.
Gov't considers 7 states for mercury site
(AP) -- The federal government is trying to find a location to store the nation's excess mercury deposits, with seven states being considered. But the government is quickly finding...
Senate healthcare legislation not expected soon
President Obama, who had urged quick action, takes the delay in stride but says it's no excuse to slow down work. The House continues to push for a floor vote before its...
Fast, Flexible And Strong: Building Better Automated Workplace Assistants
Researchers have built a prototype intelligent work assistant device, that supports smooth interaction between a human operator and an automated assistant, and developed software that helps protect the health and...
Technology On Way To Forecasting Humanity's Needs
Much as meteorologists predict the path and intensity of hurricanes, some researchers believe we will one day predict with unprecedented foresight, specificity and scale such things as the economic and...
Supercomputer Fastest Of Its Type In World
A supercomputer named Novo-G described by its lead designer as likely the most powerful computer of its kind in the world became operational the week of July 21, 2009.
Too much networking?
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Are geeks guilty of groupthink? A network expert argues that less social networking would produce more radical innovation on the Internet.
Cirque du Soleil founder to be next space tourist
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A Canadian billionaire who turned a passion for acrobatics and circus acts into a global entertainment empire will look for inspiration in space in September...
Amazon 2Q profit falls with Toys R Us settlement
(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday that its second-quarter earnings fell while sales rose, due to a $51 million payment to settle a long-standing dispute with former partner Toys...
Science publishers offer journals for free to poorest countries
Science and technology journal publishers have agreed to offer free access to their journals to academics in the world's poorest countries, the World Intellectual Property Organization said Thursday.
Netflix posts higher 2Q profit, sales
(AP) -- Netflix Inc.'s second-quarter profit coasted past expectations as recession-weary customers continued to embrace its DVD-by-mail and streaming movie service.
Social scientist suggests new research framework to study complex systems
TEMPE, Ariz. -- The often-used one-size-fits-all approach to policies aimed at achieving sustainable social-ecological systems needs to be updated with a diagnostic tool to help scholars from multiple disciplines...
UC San Diego's $3 Million NSF Grant to Fund Science Festivals
The University of California, San Diego has received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the 2010 San Diego Science Festival and fund the creation...
Saltier foods sold in Canada: study
A study shows global food brands distributed in Canada often contain more salt than their counterparts sold in other countries.
In a Teeny Landslide, Team Zurich Sweeps Nanosoccer Finals
In the recent Robocup 2009 games, in which robots compete for prizes and glory, entrants from many nations held their own. In categories including small, medium, humanoid, 2-D simulation, and 3-D simulation, teams...
Bruce Power drops plan to build Ont. reactors
Bruce Power has dropped plans to build new reactors in Ontario's Bruce County, the company said Thursday, saying it will focus on refurbishing its Bruce A and B reactor units...