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August 15, 2012 2:00 PM
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A Winning Way to Deal With Waste
Gates Foundation awards top prizes for new toilets
June 7, 2012 1:59 PM
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China Pushes the ‘Internet of Things’
"The Internet of Things," which merges several forms of embedded intelligence, has become a buzzword in China
February 15, 2012 3:11 PM
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Swiss Want to Build a Satellite That Removes Space Litter
Space researchers in Switzerland are seeking funding to build a spacecraft that will home in on a redundant satellite, grab it, and drag it down to burn up when...
February 13, 2012 9:55 PM
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Exascale Computing Off to Slow Start in DOE Budget
Supercomputer scientists who were watching the release of the Obama Administration's budget closely to see if contained new pots of money for exascale science came away both pleased and disappointed.
December 9, 2011 4:22 PM
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Controversial Turkish Internet Censorship Program Targets Evolution Sites
Evolution, apparently, ranks alongside pornography and terrorism as topics that the Turkish government's controversial new Internet filtering scheme keeps out of the hands of children. Internet users in Turkey were...
December 2, 2011 12:01 PM
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Senate Okays Changes to Program for High-Tech Start-Ups
Of the many jobs bills competing for support this month on Capitol Hill, one would have a direct impact on the U.S. research community. But its progress this week has...
October 21, 2011 5:32 PM
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143 New Patents That Won't See the Light of Day
According to one rare measure—call it the Aftergood index—the reputed security value of inventions patented in the United States is on the rise. Steven Aftergood, director of the Project...
September 9, 2011 2:57 PM
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New Patent Law Could Change How Academics Commercialize Discoveries
The first major overhaul of the U.S. patent system in nearly 60 years is about to become law. The U.S. Senate last night voted 89-9 to approve the American...
September 9, 2011 2:21 PM
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Planned 4G Network Draws Fire From House Science Panel
A multibillion dollar proposal to create a 4G wireless broadband network in the United States could interfere with several scientific services that use the Global Positioning System (GPS), including...
July 22, 2011 5:15 PM
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Research Journal Pirate Finds a Crewmate
The open-access publishing movement, which seeks to make information on scientific research freely available, seems to have found some questionable allies in the hacker crowd. After 24-year old computer programmer...
July 19, 2011 4:25 PM
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New York Offers Land for University Tech/Science
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this morning that three sites will be opened up for new university science and technology campuses on city land, given free to schools who want...
July 1, 2011 1:31 PM
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Scientists Reconnect With Cluster Mission
Europe's Cluster mission is back in the fold after controllers fixed a glitch that would have seriously curtailed its ability to do science. Cluster is comprised of four identical...
June 27, 2011 1:48 PM
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White House Retools Advanced Manufacturing Efforts
Advanced manufacturing—developing new materials and processes to make things faster, cheaper, and more efficiently—isn't a very sexy topic. But it promises to give an edge to U.S. companies trying...
May 31, 2011 4:57 PM
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Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? An Explosive 'Maybe'
Whether or not cell phones cause brain cancer is a question that's been debated (but not answered) for years, and today the World Health Organization (WHO) stepped into the...
May 15, 2011 6:50 PM
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U.S. Panel Suggests Moving Used Nuclear Fuel to Interim Sites
Draft recommendations from a White House commission on spent nuclear fuel released Friday include a call for one or more new aboveground interim storage sites in the United States. But...
April 26, 2011 4:29 PM
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Mixed Feelings Over Migration of ScienceBlogs.com to National Geo
The word started to spread over the weekend at a science writing conference in Washington, D.C.: The popular and sometimes controversial Web site ScienceBlogs.com would soon be taken over...
April 21, 2011 2:04 PM
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Spending Bill Prohibits U.S.-China Collaborations
A little-noticed clause in the 2011 spending bill signed into law last week cuts off funding for a host of scientific exchanges between the United States and China. Representative...
April 7, 2011 4:26 PM
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Fish Stymie Scientists, Facebook to the Rescue
If you're stuck in the jungle and you need research help fast, learned Oregon State University researchers, social networking may help, says the university: A team of scientists in...
March 25, 2011 10:48 AM
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Japan Radiation Map Roundup
If you want to know what's going on, ask the nerds. As fears swelled over radiation from Japan's battered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the days after the 11...
March 14, 2011 2:35 PM
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African Astronomers Find New Use for Discarded Satellite Dishes
A radio astronomer's global map of instruments that work together to survey the heavens would show a big gap over Africa. Astronomers in South Africa hope to fill in...
February 24, 2011 11:45 AM
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How to Grow Your Own Army of Citizen Scientists
In 2007, astronomer Chris Lintott and colleagues were drowning under a data deluge—1 million images of galaxies to characterize and only one graduate student to do it. His student...
February 17, 2011 1:33 PM
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U.K. Start-Up Aims to Cash in on Small Fusion Reactor
A company in Oxfordshire, U.K., is aiming to make a business out of fusion with a design for a super compact fusion reactor, or tokamak, that it hopes to...
February 14, 2011 5:46 PM
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NIST Picked for Healthy Increase to Support Advanced Manufacturing and Measurement Research
If you want to see budget fireworks in the coming months, keep your eye on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This lesser known science agency has...
February 4, 2011 2:18 PM
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Indian Report, at Odds With Mainstream, Raises Mobile Phone Concerns
NEW DELHI—In a report that departs from the scientific mainstream, an Indian government panel is warning that radio emissions from cell phones may pose a hazard to public health....
January 25, 2011 11:11 AM
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Japan Prizes Honor Immune System and Computer Science Research
TOKYO—The minds behind a breakthrough drug and a basic but ubiquitous operating software share the laurels of this year's Japan Prize, announced here today. For their work in taking...
January 14, 2011 2:47 PM
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Quandary: Scientists Prefer Reading Over Publishing 'Open Access' Papers
BERLIN—Scientists love open-access papers as readers, but as authors they are still skeptical, according to a new study of available journals and researchers’ attitudes on the topic. The E.U.-sponsored Study...
December 30, 2010 4:07 PM
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Brazil Cuts a Deal to Join European Astronomers
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—Hoping to secure time on some of the world's most powerful telescopes, Brazil will pay more than €250 million over a decade to become a member of...
December 14, 2010 6:54 PM
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Brain Exam May Have Swayed Jury in Sentencing Convicted Murderer
Testimony on the brain activity of a convicted murderer may have saved him from the death penalty. Earlier this month, a jury in Miami rejected the death penalty and...
December 3, 2010 11:32 AM
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New Google Earth Engine
Calling all developing nations, underfunded scientists, and satellite imagery hobbyists. Care for a free "planetary-scale platform for environmental data & analysis"? That's what search giant Google calls its Google...
September 3, 2010 12:01 PM
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Creating Clearer Climate Computer Codes
British software engineers Nick Barnes and David Jones have spent the past 3 years trying to simplify computer codes used to analyze world temperature records. Today they unveiled a...
August 25, 2010 2:41 PM
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Clean Energy Technologies Dominate Obama's View of Innovation
A new report from the Obama Administration makes the case that last year’s $787 billion stimulus package is helping to transform the U.S. economy by fostering more innovation. But...
August 13, 2010 3:59 PM
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'Colorblind' NASA Satellite May Yet See Green Seas
There's rare good news for the beleaguered U.S. environmental satellite fleet. Two years ago, officials with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that a key weather...
August 12, 2010 11:16 AM
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Russia's Auditors Censure Effort to Support Nanotechnology
Russian government auditors say that a disbanded government agency for research and innovation misspent about $16 million in 2008–09 on nanotechnology projects that were "unnecessary and were duplicating other...
June 18, 2010 7:58 AM
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Stem Cell Pioneer Shinya Yamanaka Bags Yet Another Prize
TOKYO—The hot streak of stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan and the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease in San Francisco, California, continues. The Inamori Foundation...
June 10, 2010 5:10 PM
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Brazil Wins Competition for IBM's New Lab
Brazil won recognition of its technological prowess this week when computer giant IBM Corp. said it has chosen the country to host IBM's ninth global research center. IBM said...
June 1, 2010 3:30 PM
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Brain Scans Not Acceptable for Detecting Lies, Says Judge
In the first decision of its kind, a federal magistrate judge has ruled that functional magnetic resonance imaging shouldn't be permitted in the courtroom as a new type of...
May 14, 2010 2:49 PM
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fMRI Lie Detection Hearing Ends, Decision Still to Come
A federal court in Tennessee heard arguments yesterday and today on whether lie detection technology based on fMRI scans of brain activity should be admitted in a criminal case...
May 14, 2010 12:09 PM
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Can Brain Scans Detect Lying? Exclusive New Details From Court Hearing
After nearly 12 hours of testimony yesterday by scientists, a hearing on whether lie detection technology based on fMRI scans of brain activity should be admitted in court continues...
May 13, 2010 1:00 PM
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fMRI Lie Detection Gets Its Day in Court
A hearing under way in a federal court in Tennessee today represents the most formal legal test yet for the use of lie-detection technology based on functional magnetic resonance...
May 13, 2010 12:22 PM
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New Extra-Disturbing iPhone App Allows You to Be a "MEanderthal"
The Smithsonian Institution has released an iPhone app to allow users to morph their faces into those of Neandertals. Explains the Christian Science Monitor: First you upload a portrait...
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