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- With the economy in trouble, funding has dried up for green tech companies trying to bring new clean energy technologies to market, according to two new research reports.
- More than three years after an immigration detainee died in custody in New Jersey, the mere fact of his death proved troublingly hard to confirm.
- Russia is keeping troops in ( Read more... )
- With the economy in trouble, funding has dried up for green tech companies trying to bring new clean energy technologies to market, according to two new research reports.
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Ephemera.
- Children who live in homes with vinyl floors, which can emit chemicals called phthalates, are more likely to have autism, according to research by Swedish and US scientists published Monday. The scientists were surprised by their finding, calling it 'far from conclusive.'
- Considerably more people than previously believed are allergic to the most ( Read more... )
- Children who live in homes with vinyl floors, which can emit chemicals called phthalates, are more likely to have autism, according to research by Swedish and US scientists published Monday. The scientists were surprised by their finding, calling it 'far from conclusive.'
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Zeitgeist.
- Boat owners whose boats have become too expensive to keep are abandoning ship.
- An EU plan that provides government subsidies to drivers who trade in their old jalopies for new cars has exceeded expectations.
- FBI agents in Arkansas are enlisting the online public's help in catching bank robbers with a mashup of bank spycams and Google Maps. And it ( Read more... )
- Boat owners whose boats have become too expensive to keep are abandoning ship.
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- The need for constant updates has created a cottage industry that celeb fans may not be aware of: Twitter ghostwriters.
- Foreign men have been losing their attraction as potential husbands for unmarried Chinese women since the global financial crisis started.
- A US judge has ordered that the morning-after pill, "Plan B", be made available to 17-year- ( Read more... )
- The need for constant updates has created a cottage industry that celeb fans may not be aware of: Twitter ghostwriters.
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Ephemera.
- Researchers are studying some common soil bacteria that "inhale" toxic metals and "exhale" them in a non-toxic form. The bacteria might one day be used to clean up toxic chemicals left over from nuclear weapons production decades ago.
- By peering into the brain as it learns, scientists have found that the presence of a specific brain wave pattern ( Read more... )
- Researchers are studying some common soil bacteria that "inhale" toxic metals and "exhale" them in a non-toxic form. The bacteria might one day be used to clean up toxic chemicals left over from nuclear weapons production decades ago.
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Ephemera.
- Scientists from the University of Texas at Dallas have created nanotube-based artificial muscles that are light as air and work even under extreme temperatures. The 'muscles' expand width-wise by about 200 percent when a voltage is applied, but are stronger than steel lengthwise.
- Scientists are building a shoal of robot fish to be let loose in the ( Read more... )
- Scientists from the University of Texas at Dallas have created nanotube-based artificial muscles that are light as air and work even under extreme temperatures. The 'muscles' expand width-wise by about 200 percent when a voltage is applied, but are stronger than steel lengthwise.
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Zeitgeist.
- The use of BlackBerrys, iPhones, Google and Twitter by jurors is wreaking havoc on trials around the country.
- Spurred by anger over A.I.G., the House voted 328 to 93 to a 90 percent tax of bonuses paid by any company owing more than $5 billion in bailout money.
- A.I.G. is using taxpayer money to sue the United States for the return of $306 million ( Read more... )
- The use of BlackBerrys, iPhones, Google and Twitter by jurors is wreaking havoc on trials around the country.
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Ephemera.
- A man who was wheelchair bound due to a motorcycle accident twenty years ago gained the ability to walk again after being bitten by a recluse spider.
- A bat was seen clinging to the external fuel tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery before its launch on Sunday, and it apparently held on for dear life as the spaceship lifted off. The shuttle ( Read more... )
- A man who was wheelchair bound due to a motorcycle accident twenty years ago gained the ability to walk again after being bitten by a recluse spider.
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Zeitgeist.
- Rights advocates say leaders are using "black houses" to reduce the number of petitioners reaching Beijing. The petition system provides people with the semblance of an appeals process that top leaders hope will keep them off the streets. But for officials at all levels, it seems, the appearance of order - measured by reducing the number of ( Read more... )
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Ephemera.
- An engineered solid-state metamaterial proved it can function as a state-of-the-art device in the complex terahertz (THz) range of the electromagnetic spectrum, controlling the phase of a THz beam 30 times faster and with far greater precision than a conventional optical device.
- A new analysis of old data shows that gravitational waves may have ( Read more... )
- An engineered solid-state metamaterial proved it can function as a state-of-the-art device in the complex terahertz (THz) range of the electromagnetic spectrum, controlling the phase of a THz beam 30 times faster and with far greater precision than a conventional optical device.