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Reference Genome of Maize Published (w/ Podcast)

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A four-year, multi-institutional effort co-led by three Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists culminated today in publication of a landmark series of papers in the journal Science reveal ...


Genome advances promise personalized medical treatment

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A whirlwind of activity is under way to apply the findings of the $3 billion Human Genome Project to improve health care in the United States and around the world.


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Dutch approve project to store CO2 underground

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

The Dutch government said Wednesday it had approved the experimental below-ground storage of excess CO2 to curb damaging emissions, dismissing concerns of residents who live on top of the project.


New funding will stimulate alternative energy research

Technology / Energy

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Initiatives to provide geothermal heating or power at the Pueblo of Jemez and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology campus are receiving Los Alamos National Laboratory assistance, thanks to recent American Reinvestment ...


Google digital book ambitions hinge on settlement (AP)

Google makes concessions on digital book deal (Update)

Technology / Internet

created Nov 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(AP) -- Google Inc. will loosen its control over millions of copyright-protected books that will be added to its digital library if a federal judge approves a revised legal settlement addressing the earlier ...


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New York Times publishes 'crowd-funded' article

Technology / Internet

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The science section of The New York Times contained an unusual article on Tuesday. The story about a huge floating garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean was not written by a Times reporter but by a freelance ...


Deadline arrives in Google book-scan deal (AP)

Deadline in Google book deal extended to Friday

Technology / Internet

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Google says it needs until Friday to come up with a new proposal that would give it the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books.


Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction

Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Environmental Restoration Project at Sandia National Laboratories reports the successful construction of an alternative evapotranspirative cover at the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) in September. The 2.6-acre ...


Feds to issue new medical marijuana policy (AP)

Feds to stop prosecuting medical marijuana users (Update)

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(AP) -- Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by ...


Brazilian Alini dos Santos Silva, 28, points at the map of the three "favelas" she and a team of neighbours designed

Rio youth use GPS phones to put favelas on map

Technology / Internet

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rio's favelas are home to a third of the city's population, but are almost invisible on maps -- a situation five young women are trying to change with the help of GPS and the Internet.


World's oldest submerged town dates back 5,000 years (w/ Video)

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Archaeologists surveying the world's oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 ...


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Google to launch platform for selling books online

Technology / Internet

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(AP) -- Google Inc. is launching a new online service that will let readers buy electronic versions of books and read them on such gadgets as cell phones, laptops and possibly e-book devices.


A 234 year-old plant known as a cycad at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew

UK botanists bank 10% of world's plant species

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Botanists at Britain's Kew Gardens have collected seeds from 10 percent of the world's wild plants, their first goal in a long-term project to protect all endangered species, they said Thursday.


Technology brings new insights to ancient language

Technology brings new insights to ancient language

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East's oldest continuously ...


DOE to explore scientific cloud computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can such an approach also meet the computing and data storage demands of the nation's scientific community? A new program funded by the American Recovery and ...