Statin study could lead to test for gene variant 10 minutes ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Scientists may have found a way to test for and possibly avoid the most serious side effect of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, one of the top-selling medicines in the world. | |
 Facebook to help some programmers, punish others 17 minutes ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Facebook Inc. is introducing more tools to help the software applications fueling the online hangout's popularity and is promising to intensify its efforts to weed out programs that violate its rules ... | |
Microsoft exec who led Yahoo buyout team to leave 12 minutes ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said Kevin Johnson, the executive in charge of its Windows and Web operations and an instrumental player in the company's failed $47.5 billion bid to buy Yahoo Inc., is leaving the company. | |
 Nokia, Qualcomm settle long-running dispute 14 minutes ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- The legal salvos between Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. stopped months ago, part of what officials at the wireless industry heavyweights described as a truce in a long-running battle that spanned three ... | |
 'Nanonet' circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality 13 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits on plastic sheets for applications including ... | |
A 'New Dimension' at the LHC July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 66 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Later this year, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, will begin operating, sending beams of protons hurling around circular tracks ... | |
Historian predicts the end of 'science superpowers' 10 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Is the sun beginning to set on America's scientific dominance? Much like the scientific superpowers of France, Germany and Britain in centuries' past, the United States has a diminishing lead over other nations in financial ... | |
First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt 14 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Photovoltaic cells, once so costly they could be used only to power million-dollar satellites, are today turning up even on humble parking meters. Now a brash Tempe, Ariz., company called First Solar plans to take the technology ... | |
 Google unveils reference tool after 7-month test 10 hours ago | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is taking the wraps off an Internet encyclopedia designed to give people a chance to show off - and profit from - their expertise on any topic. | |
Ancient Galactic Magnetic Fields Stronger than Expected 11 hours ago | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mining the far reaches of the universe for clues about its past, a team of scientists including Philipp Kronberg of Los Alamos National Laboratory has proposed that magnetic fields of ancient galaxies like ... | |
 Hitachi, GE to develop smaller nuclear reactors 12 hours ago | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Japan's Hitachi and US giant General Electric will team up to sell midsize nuclear reactors to meet growing demand for power facilities in Southeast Asia, a Hitachi spokesman said Wednesday. | |
Toxic chemicals found in common scented laundry products, air fresheners 13 hours ago | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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A University of Washington study of top-selling laundry products and air fresheners found the products emitted dozens of different chemicals. All six products tested gave off at least one chemical regulated as toxic or hazardous ... | |
Tech awards go to plane de-icing goo, headlights 10 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1
(AP) -- Camera flashcubes of the 1960s, high-definition TVs and the Nicoderm quit-smoking patch have at least one thing in common: Each found a place over the years on R&D Magazine's annual list of the 100 most technologically ... | |
 Unique fossil discovery shows Antarctic was once much warmer 17 hours ago | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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A new fossil discovery- the first of its kind from the whole of the Antarctic continent- provides scientists with new evidence to support the theory that the polar region was once much warmer. | |
A dash of lime -- a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels July 21, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 101 vote(s)
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Scientists say they have found a workable way of reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere by adding lime to seawater. And they think it has the potential to dramatically reverse CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere, reports Cath ... | |
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