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‘Green’ Buildings Don’t Have to Be New - New York Times

The vast stock of older buildings presents a much bigger opportunity to cut down on energy consumption and carbon emissions.

The Coming Wave of Gadgets That Listen and Obey - New York Times

Devices that incorporate speech recognition are starting to hit the mass market, giving users the ability to let their mouths do the walking -- and the searching.

Rogue Trader in Custody in France - New York Times

Investigators were expected to question the trader in connection with a massive fraud at Société Générale.

Built for the Earth and the Pocketbook - New York Times

A Manhattan architect is attempting to marry modernist design and reasonable cost in a Long Island modular home.

Tightening the Alligator Belt - New York Times

With stock markets around the world falling last week, New Yorkers cut back on the essentials, like dry-cleaning their sheets.

New Plan for Logging in Alaska Forest - New York Times

More than three million acres in Alaska would be open to logging under a federal plan that supporters believe will revive the state’s struggling timber industry.

Common human viruses threaten endangered great apes

PhysOrg news: Common human viruses threaten endangered great apes

Computer vision may not be as good as thought

PhysOrg news: Computer vision may not be as good as thought

Breakthrough research turns the tide on water-borne pathogen

PhysOrg news: Breakthrough research turns the tide on water-borne pathogen

Microchips Everywhere: a Future Vision

PhysOrg news: Microchips Everywhere: a Future Vision

Join the Navy, Kill Some Whales

With an environmental waiver from President Bush, the Navy begins testing a sonar system off the coast of San Diego, despite the acknowledged harm to ocean mammals.

Synthetic Biology: It's Not What You Learned, But What You Made | Wired Science from Wired.com

With the news yesterday that J. Craig Venter Institute scientists had built the first bacterial genome from the raw chemical components of DNA, we saw a host of science writers

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The helmet that could turn back the symptoms of Alzheimer's | the Daily Mail

An experimental helmet which scientists say could reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease within weeks of being used is to be tried out on patients.

Fit Nation: The Obesity Fight - Special Reports from CNN.com

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta is tackling the obesity epidemic in a 7-week tour across the nation for a series of town hall meetings to educate and search for solutions.

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New Fault Found in Europe; May "Close Up" Adriatic Sea

An active fault off southern Croatia is building new islands and bulking up mountains, a new study says—but is also drawing Italy closer to the Dalmatian coast.

New Purification Plant Answers California's Water Crisis

Orange County's new high-tech water-treatment plant takes the water that residents throw away, eradicates the junk and sends it back into the ground for drinking. Sound gross? Plant representatives say it's more pure than that fancy bottled water you buy in the store.