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As Oil Stays Above $100, Economic Concerns Rise - New York Times

Oil futures rallied again Wednesday, pushing briefly past $101 a barrel after the Fed lowered its forecast for economic growth this year.

That ’70s Look: Stagflation - New York Times

Will an economic slowdown counter a rise in prices? That’s the Fed’s view.

Use of Private Care Tests British Health System - New York Times

Britain is wrestling with how to handle patients who want to pay for parts of their treatment while receiving the rest free from the health service.

Emerging infectious diseases on the rise: Next target 'hotspot' predicted

PhysOrg news: Emerging infectious diseases on the rise: Next target 'hotspot' predicted

Who's Orbiting the Moon?

PhysOrg news: Who's Orbiting the Moon?

Fiber-optic booster on a chip
PhysOrg news: Fiber-optic booster on a chip

Neighbors Clash Over Trees, Solar Power

PhysOrg news: Neighbors Clash Over Trees, Solar Power

Researchers release most detailed global study of genetic variation

PhysOrg news: Researchers release most detailed global study of genetic variation

Graphene Takes the Heat

PhysOrg news: Graphene Takes the Heat

Missile Strikes a Spy Satellite Falling From Its Orbit - New York Times

Officials cautioned that it would be 24 hours before it could be determined whether the fuel tank with 1,000 pounds of toxic hydrazine was destroyed as planned.

Czech police wonder where bridge has gone | Metro.co.uk

Apartment Therapy New York | AT Europe: London Close-up - The Amazing Staircase

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Self-healing rubber bounces back

A material that is able to self-repair even when sliced in two is invented by French researchers.

With Fidel Gone, Will Cuba Become a Global Ethanol Player?

Cuba has the potential to make 3.2 billion gallons of ethanol a year, a figure that would make it the world's third-biggest producer. Reaching that target would require a massive infusion of foreign capital, but with Cuba quietly modernizing its ethanol infrastructure, is the country preparing to jump into the ethanol game?

China Opens “Nazi Fuel” Plant : Environmental News Blog | Environmental Graffiti

An energy company in China is planning to open a plant that will turn coal into a synthetic fuel for cars and airplanes. The ...

ABC News: Documentary: U.S. Students Can't Compete

Documentary: U.S. Students Can't Compete

hands down, the coolest skyscraper ever made | deputydog

there are so many reasons to love this beauty that it's hard to know where to start. it's got 13 floors which, to me at least, makes it a skyscraper. it's entirely made of wood, thus making it a wooden skyscraper. it was made by the fair hands of a single crazy russian man, thus making it a homemade wooden skyscraper. brilliant.

Technology Can Be a Blessing for Bored Workers - New York Times

The white collar, office-bound workers aren’t the only ones turning to high-tech devices to escape from tedium at work.

Solar cell directly splits water for hydrogen

PhysOrg news: Solar cell directly splits water for hydrogen

Into the abyss: Deep-sixing carbon

PhysOrg news: Into the abyss: Deep-sixing carbon

Laser light may be able to detect diseases on the breath

PhysOrg news: Laser light may be able to detect diseases on the breath

Novel organic metal hybrids that will revolutionize materials science and chemical engineering
PhysOrg news: Novel organic metal hybrids that will revolutionize materials science and chemical engineering

Torontoist: The Ones That Mother Gives You

Biblical Fail [pic] | you.presscue

Losing Our Lakes | Newsweek Project Green | Newsweek.com

Some of India's biggest cities are overrun. Battling the primate problem. Monkeys India rhesus middle

ABC News: Building a Life on $25 and a Gym Bag

Building a Life on $25 and a Gym Bag

Report: Alberta Oil Sands Most Destructive Project on Earth | DeSmogBlog

Castro resigns as Cuban president | World news | guardian.co.uk
Ailing leader to step down after 49 years as head of state when new parliament meets on Sunday

Grad student invents gravity lamp

PhysOrg news: Grad student invents gravity lamp

Why beer harms science - Telegraph

Telegraph Earth is your source for environmental and green news and environmental and green issues, with information on climate change, global warming, pollution, green living and recycling, and all other environment issues.

Evolutionary History of SARS Supports Bats As Virus Source

PhysOrg news: Evolutionary History of SARS Supports Bats As Virus Source

New aluminum-rich alloy produces hydrogen on-demand for large-scale uses

PhysOrg news: New aluminum-rich alloy produces hydrogen on-demand for large-scale uses

Solar evidence points to human causes of climate change

PhysOrg news: Solar evidence points to human causes of climate change

3-D photonic crystals make novel add-drop filters
PhysOrg news: 3-D photonic crystals make novel add-drop filters

Researchers explain spread of 1918 flu pandemic

PhysOrg news: Researchers explain spread of 1918 flu pandemic

'Invisible' bacteria dupe the human immune system

PhysOrg news: 'Invisible' bacteria dupe the human immune system

Geologists solve ancient mystery

PhysOrg news: Geologists solve ancient mystery

With Oil Prices Rising, Wood Makes a Comeback - New York Times

With oil prices rising people are turning to wood heat, raising concerns about the environmental impact of some older devices that are being used.

What People Owe Fish: A Lot - New York Times

Feel like a fish out of water? You may not be too far off.

Web Site That Posts Leaked Material Ordered Shut - New York Times
The closing of Wikileaks.org, which invites people to post confidential material, presents a First Amendment test.

Satellite Shoot-Down Set: Intercept Near Hawaii; Debris Cloud Over Canada (Updated) | Danger Room from Wired.com

As you probably know by now, the U.S. military is going to try to shoot down a dying satellite on Wednesday, around 10:30 PM eastern time (3:30 AM Greenwich Mean

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Waterworld: Aquadom Is Largest Cylindrical Aquarium on the Planet

What do you do with a -meter-high acrylic glass cylinder gallons of sea water fish from different species and two

Union Expects 15,000 to 20,000 G.M. Workers to Take Buyouts - New York Times

The head of the United Automobile Workers union added that General Motors would replace nearly all of the workers with lower-paid employees.

Some Cities Are Spared the Slide in Housing - New York Times

The real estate market these days is a tale of two Americas, and one of them is not doing too badly.

Bleak New Batch of Data on Economy - New York Times

New reports showed rising prices of imported goods, struggling manufacturing and an erosion in consumer confidence.

Kiribati: Vast Marine Reserve Created - New York Times

The tiny island nation of Kiribati, the former Gilbert Islands, declared the world’s largest marine protected area, a 164,200-square-mile ocean wilderness.

In Remote Valley, a Grim Redefinition of ‘Fishing’ - New York Times

The once abundant shrimp of the legendary Rio Grande in Jamaica have become scarce and what can still be caught are often poisoned, a result of man’s impact on the natural world.

Identical twins not as identical as believed

PhysOrg news: Identical twins not as identical as believed

Metabolic syndrome linked to cold tolerance

PhysOrg news: Metabolic syndrome linked to cold tolerance

Researchers study widespread areas of low oxygen off northwest coast

PhysOrg news: Researchers study widespread areas of low oxygen off northwest coast

Warming waters may make Antarctica hospitable to sharks, with potentially disastrous consequences

PhysOrg news: Warming waters may make Antarctica hospitable to sharks, with potentially disastrous consequences

Past greenhouse warming events provide clues to what the future may hold

PhysOrg news: Past greenhouse warming events provide clues to what the future may hold

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Brain waves pattern themselves after rhythms of nature

PhysOrg news: Brain waves pattern themselves after rhythms of nature

Malfunctioning Mitochondria Could Cause Heart Disease | Wired Science from Wired.com

Scientists say they've found a new explanation -- and a perhaps a path to a new cure -- for heart disease. In a study published today in Science, researchers led

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22,000 died amid delayed Bayer drug recall: doctor | Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The lives of 22,000 patients could have been saved if U.S. regulators had been quicker to remove a Bayer AG drug used to stem bleeding during open heart surgery, according to a medical

17 arrested after youths riot in Denmark - USATODAY.com

Bands of youths set fire to cars and trash bins overnight in a fourth consecutive night of vandalism mostly in immigrant neighborhoods of the Danish capital, police said.

Kids' commissioner calls for ban on Mosquito, ultrasonic anti-teen device - Times Online

Under 25? Listen
here | Over-25s, listen
here
The creators of a pioneering device that uses high-frequency sound

Sat-navs 'damage 2,000 bridges per year' - Telegraph

Get the latest UK news and World news from the Telegraph. Your source for sport news, business news, travel news, motoring news and property news

How believing can be seeing: Study shows how context dictates what we believe we see

PhysOrg news: How believing can be seeing: Study shows how context dictates what we believe we see

As Nuclear Waste Languishes, Expense to U.S. Rises - New York Times

The federal government, contractually obligated to bury the waste, is at least 20 years behind schedule.

In France, the Heads No Longer Roll - New York Times

In the wake of the Société Générale scandal, France’s business aristocracy finds itself in a place it never wants to be: the spotlight.

Novel mathematical model predicts new wave of drug-resistant HIV infections in San Francisco

PhysOrg news: Novel mathematical model predicts new wave of drug-resistant HIV infections in San Francisco

Biofuel: Gene scientists find secret to oil yield from corn

PhysOrg news: Biofuel: Gene scientists find secret to oil yield from corn

A Spoonful of Immunity? - New York Times

Restaurant menus in Los Angeles are marrying the broader commercial movement of “functional” foods.

Statistics in the Outfield | Wired Science from Wired.com

Long before fantasy leagues and Moneyball, baseball players, managers and fans embraced statistics. Of course, common stats like batting or earned run average are relatively easy to quantify because there

The Other Carbon: Reducing Black Carbon's Role in Global Warming | Wired Science from Wired.com

BOSTON, Ma - Carbon dioxide, the most well-known greenhouse gas, isn't actually a toxic substance. In fact, plants, within some limits, like and use the stuff. The problem,as we know,

2 million Chinese kicked out of homes for Olympics - Sunday Mirror

EXCLUSIVE SUNDAY Mirror INVESTIGATES Families are driven from their homes for sake of China Olympics Houses razed to make way for £200m stadium and city parks 40,000 jailed and tortured for protesting about losing everything

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Kosovo MPs proclaim independence

Kosovo's parliament declares independence from Serbia, to jubilation in Pristina but angry protests in Belgrade.

Sibel Edmonds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Whenever oil company profits have slipped below the Fortune 500 average, conflict has broken out in the Middle East [graph] | you.presscue

Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images of the Prophet | Technology | The Observer

Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia, is refusing to remove medieval artistic depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.

newsdesk.org: Great Lakes Toxics Data Suppressed?

Why are thousands of bats dying in New York? - Science- msnbc.com

Bats in New York and Vermont are mysteriously dying off by the thousands, often with a white ring of fungus around their noses, and scientists in hazmat suits are crawling into dank caves to find out why.

Liveblog on The Future of the Global Food System | Wired Science from Wired.com

BOSTON, Ma - What is the future of the global food system? In this speech delivered at the AAAS annual meeting, Per Pinstrup-Andersen, a Cornell professor of food, argues that

Like ants, humans are easily led - Telegraph

Telegraph Earth is your source for environmental and green news and environmental and green issues, with information on climate change, global warming, pollution, green living and recycling, and all other environment issues.

Human Culture Subject To Natural Selection, Study Shows

The process of natural selection can act on human culture as well as on genes, a new study finds. Scientists have shown for the first time that cultural traits affecting survival and reproduction evolve at a different rate than other cultural attributes. Speeded or slowed rates of evolution typically indicate the action of natural selection in analyses of the human genome.

Japanese Roots | Human Evolution | DISCOVER Magazine

Just who are the Japanese? Where did they come from and when?. Visit Discover Magazine to read this article and other exclusive science and technology news stories.

Chinese Factory Linked to Drug Under Inquiry in U.S. - New York Times

Production of the blood-thinning drug heparin was suspended this week after 350 patients reported ill effects from it.

Offshore Outsourcings Next Wave: How High? - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

Bits is a blog about technology, innovation and society from The New York Times.

Venture to Use Sea to Fight Warming Runs Out of Cash - New York Times

Planktos, a California company that is trying to turn a profit by fertilizing the ocean with iron dust, canceled planned field tests on Wednesday, citing a lack of funds.

Developing Countries Grew More Biotech Crops in ’07 - New York Times
Farmers in 12 developing countries planted biotech crops in 2007, and for the first time outnumbered the industrialized countries where such crops are grown.

Federal Lab Says It Can Harvest Fuel From Air (With a Catch) - Dot Earth - Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times Blog

Andrew C. Revkin on climate change and sustainable living.

When people feel powerful, they ignore new opinions, study finds

PhysOrg news: When people feel powerful, they ignore new opinions, study finds

Engineering students: Airbrush not just for artists

PhysOrg news: Engineering students: Airbrush not just for artists

Researchers get closer to safe stem cell treatments

PhysOrg news: Researchers get closer to safe stem cell treatments

First map of threats to marine ecosystems shows all the world's oceans are affected

PhysOrg news: First map of threats to marine ecosystems shows all the world's oceans are affected

New approach may render disease-causing staph harmless
PhysOrg news: New approach may render disease-causing staph harmless

New materials can selectively capture carbon dioxide

PhysOrg news: New materials can selectively capture carbon dioxide

The Best Way to Board a Plane

PhysOrg news: The Best Way to Board a Plane

Pentagon Unveils Rogue Spy Sat Shoot-Down Plan | Danger Room from Wired.com

Sometime in the next 11 days, a Navy cruiser is going to aim a missile just above the atmosphere, and try to take out a malfunctioning spy satellite before it

Tracking the Children of the Clones | Wired Science from Wired.com

If you were eating the spawn of a clone, would you want to know? Actually, you probably have already. As Ben Paynter pointed out in his lovely story for Wired

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Friendly 'worms' could spread software fixes - tech - 14 February 2008 - New Scientist Tech
A new strategy could use software worms to rapidly distribute urgent updates or offer a sneak preview of security threats to come

Matisyahu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

YouTube - Matisyahu - King without a crown

Matisyahu King without a crown

G.M. Offers Buyouts to 74,000 - New York Times

The buyout offer, which covers G.M.’s entire unionized work force, came as G.M. announced a $722 million fourth-quarter loss.

In Price and Supply, Wheat Is the Unstable Staple - New York Times

With demand soaring abroad and droughts crimping supply, the world’s wheat stockpiles have fallen to their lowest level in 30 years.

A sense of scarcity: Why it seems like all the good ones are taken

PhysOrg news: A sense of scarcity: Why it seems like all the good ones are taken

Bacteria and nanofilters -- the future of clean water technology
PhysOrg news: Bacteria and nanofilters -- the future of clean water technology

Lake Mead could be dry by 2021

PhysOrg news: Lake Mead could be dry by 2021

Egyptian Civilization - Archaeology - Farming - New York Times

A discovery may provide insights about the farmers and some answers to the questions of how, why and when Egyptians adopted farming.

Joel Berger - When Grizzlies Ruin Eden, Moose Take to the Road - New York Times

Joel Berger’s investigations into the behavior and habits of ungulates have been used to find ways to preserve them and their environments.

E.U. Regulators Raid Intel Offices - New York Times

Antitrust regulators raided the Munich office of Intel Corp. searching for evidence that the company may have broken cartel or monopoly rules, the European Commission said.

Complexity Theory Takes Evolution to Another Level | Wired Science from Wired.com

One hundred and ninety-nine years after Charles Darwin was born, and 149 years after he published On the Origin of Species, some scientists say that the theory of evolution is

Sea of Garbage

Mini-muscleman: Meet the world's smallest bodybuilder | the Daily Mail

At just 2ft 9, Indian muscleman Aditya 'Romeo' Dev is the world's smallest bodybuilder.

I finally had a chance to watch the BBC documentary "the century of the self", simply put the best documentary I've seen in recent memory. It all makes sense now, channel all your wants, desires and energy into a new car, a bigger house, electric pink knee high socks or something equally pointless. Don't think of a way to improve society or try to accomplish something of note with your time on this earth, no, no thats not profitable for us ... genius in it's simplicity ... the allusion of control. Thank you for that link I'm sorry it took so long for me to watch it.

P.S I'm also dumber than a chimp i would have gotten the peanut out but it would have been urea flavored, in my defense i didn't see the bowl of water.

In Britain, a Campaign Against Obesity Is Snarled in Controversy - New York Times
An effort to create a symbol for an anti-obesity campaign is stalled, advertising executives say, because of disagreements over how the program should be run.

Baby Essentials Succeed Where Pet Food Failed - New York Times

Diapers, wipes and formula — the basics — draw in other more lucrative purchases.

Drawn to the Screen, Big and Small - New York Times

One might imagine, similarly, that teenage moviegoers would see less television than their more movie-averse peers. But that is not so, according to data from IMMI.

Underwater Robot Test is Practice for Jovian Moon | Wired Science from Wired.com

How's this for a travel itinerary: First stop, Lake Mendota in Wisconsin. Then a little trip under a frozen Antarctic lake, and finally a blowout finish under the icy seas

Artificial sweeteners linked to weight gain

PhysOrg news: Artificial sweeteners linked to weight gain

The beauty bias: Can people love the one they are compatible with?

PhysOrg news: The beauty bias: Can people love the one they are compatible with?

Why anyone can make a sandcastle
PhysOrg news: Why anyone can make a sandcastle

Model of Easter Island Collapse Might Reveal Message for Today

PhysOrg news: Model of Easter Island Collapse Might Reveal Message for Today

Carbon capture strategy could lead to emission-free cars

PhysOrg news: Carbon capture strategy could lead to emission-free cars

Team develops thin-film 'micro pharmacy'

PhysOrg news: Team develops thin-film 'micro pharmacy'

For an Era of Twins, the End May Be Near - New York Times

If all goes as expected, the twins glut we’re experiencing now will not be a permanent facet of life in the city.

Scientists Find New Receptor for H.I.V. - New York Times

The discovery of a new way that H.I.V. attacks human cells could provide fresh avenues for the development of additional therapies to stop AIDS, scientists say.

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Finding May Solve Riddle of Fatigue in Muscles - New York Times

Scientists are reporting that they have determined why muscles get tired and devised, for mice, an experimental drug that can eliminate fatigue.

Moscow Air Pollution | World Front Page

DailyTech - Accidental Discovery During Surgery Reverses Memory Loss

A "pacemaker" for the human brain might be on the horizon

The Associated Press: Chavez Threatens US Oil Cutoff

Study: It Rains Less on Weekends (LiveScience.com) : Yahoo! Green

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Flesh-eating' amphibians filmed

A BBC crew films a worm-like amphibian allowing her young to peel off and eat her skin.

How About a Paperless Home? » ecoble - ecological design, green innovation and environmental sustainability

Inhabitat » Artificial Energy Islands Could Power The World

Future-forward design for the world you inhabit - your daily source for innovations in sustainable architecture and green design for the home.

Israel’s Secret Success - New York Times

The Palestinian Hamas refuses to recognize Israel, but even that movement seeks a long-term truce, which is tantamount to de facto recognition.

The Unending Allure of the Free Lunch - New York Times
Ezra Pound’s words on usury, or ultra-high-interest lending and borrowing, come to mind when considering the subprime problems that face this great nation.

Warning: Fast Driving May Lead to More Trading - New York Times

IF you get speeding tickets, watch out: The chances are good that you will also engage in possibly dangerous investing behavior, too, according to a new study.

The Race to Read Genomes on a Shoestring, Relatively Speaking - New York Times

If the cost of sequencing a human genome can drop to $1,000 or below, experts say it would start to become feasible to tell what diseases people might be at risk for.

Appellate Panel Rejects E.P.A. Emission Limits - New York Times

By ruling against limits on mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants, the panel agreed with those who said the law required tighter, more expensive controls.

Reigning Trowel in a Kingdom of Orchids - New York Times

Robert Fuchs, one of the orchid world’s most successful and controversial growers, has turned his family’s Florida homestead into a subtropical paradise.

Suburbs-environment-green-suburban environmentalist - New York Times

Studies have shown that suburbanites use more energy and produce more carbon dioxide than city-dwellers.

Poussin - Landscape With a River God - Venus and Adonis - New York Times
Separated since the late 1700s, two pieces were reunited on Friday in one frame for the first time for “Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions,” an exhibition that opens on Tuesday at the Met.

Wary U.S. Olympians Will Bring Food to China - New York Times

The U.S. Olympic Committee has tried to figure out how to avoid the danger of tainted food at the Summer Games.

Tooth Scan Reveals Neanderthal Mobility

PhysOrg news: Tooth Scan Reveals Neanderthal Mobility

Now, Feed the Data to the Subprimeoscope - New York Times

Economic forecasting is like reading tea leaves — extremely difficult, unless you arrange the leaves into letters and numbers, which is no picnic, either.

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Making Sense of the Great Suicide Debate - New York Times

The darkness of the soul encounters the science of pharmaceuticals.

Sizwe’s Test: A Young Man’s Journey Through Africa’s AIDS Epidemic - Jonny Steinberg - Book Review - New York Times
A journalist follows one high-risk South African as a way to understand why AIDS continues to spread despite available treatment.

New research project captures traffic data using GPS-enabled cell phones

PhysOrg news: New research project captures traffic data using GPS-enabled cell phones

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Greg Mankiw's Blog: The Poverty Trap

Modern Birds Existed Before Dinosaur Die-Off

Birds came into being a hundred million years ago, a new genetic study suggests, possibly putting to rest a long-held debate about their origins.

Catch of the day: Cocaine - 09 Feb 2008 - Oceans news - NZ Herald

At first glance, Bluefields in Nicaragua looks like any other rum-soaked, Rastafarian-packed, hammock-infested Caribbean paradise. But Bluefields has a secret.
People here don't…

Took a little Economics study break enjoy

Court Bars Sale of Billions in Oil Assets by Venezuela - New York Times
The oil giant won court orders freezing as much as $12 billion in petroleum assets controlled by Venezuela’s government.

Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat - New York Times

The full emissions costs of producing biofuels are higher than those of producing of conventional fuels, scientists said.

Japan’s Crisis of ’90s Offers Harsh Lessons for U.S. - New York Times

A Japan-style quagmire, most economists say, is an outcome that can be avoided in the United States with sound economic policy.

Vocal Contest Gives McDonald’s Employees Something to Sing About - New York Times

The “American Idol” craze has spawned an elaborate knock-off at McDonald’s, which put out a casting call to its workers and was overwhelmed by 3,600 video auditions.

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Extremophile Hunt Begins

PhysOrg news: Extremophile Hunt Begins

Six die of incurable bacteria infection: Japan hospital
PhysOrg news: Six die of incurable bacteria infection: Japan hospital

Seattle Taps Its Inner Silicon Valley - New York Times

Many communities dream of becoming the next Silicon Valley. But Seattle is actually doing it.

FUH2 | Fuck You And Your H2

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Fogonazos: Swimming at the edge of Victoria Falls

Sex change cops 'laughed their heads off' | The Daily Telegraph

Cities 'are like giant contraceptives' - Telegraph

Unravelling the Northwest's Viking past

PhysOrg news: Unravelling the Northwest's Viking past

Gazprom Threatens to Halt Fuel for Ukraine - New York Times

In this latest flare-up of a dispute over money and energy in Eastern Europe, Gazprom threatened to halt fuel supplies unless Ukraine settled a $1.5 billion debt.

European Banks Confront Economic Slowdown - New York Times

Abandoning recent threats to raise interest rates, the European Central Bank hinted Thursday that it would soon follow the Federal Reserve’s lead and cut them.

The End of eBay’s Egalitarianism - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

Bits is a blog about technology, innovation and society from The New York Times.

Scientists Say Mummies’ Lice Show Pre-Columbian Origins - New York Times

The Europeans who followed Columbus to America did not introduce lice, as had been suspected.

'Good bacteria' in women give clues for slowing HIV transmission

PhysOrg news: 'Good bacteria' in women give clues for slowing HIV transmission

First documented case of pest resistance to biotech cotton

PhysOrg news: First documented case of pest resistance to biotech cotton

Study: Destroying native ecosystems for biofuel crops worsens global warming

PhysOrg news: Study: Destroying native ecosystems for biofuel crops worsens global warming

Scientists produce carbon nanotubes using commercially available polymeric resins

PhysOrg news: Scientists produce carbon nanotubes using commercially available polymeric resins

Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

PhysOrg news: Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Potent DNA Vaccines May Be Viable Thanks to the Humble Tattoo Gun

German scientists are using a tattoo gun to deliver potent DNA vaccines, which may be medicine's best defense against fast-moving diseases like bird flu.

Ecotopias Aren't Just for Hippies Anymore -- and They're Sprouting Up Worldwide

The race for the first carbon-neutral, zero-emissions community is on, from Costa Rica to Libya to an island in San Francisco Bay.

As the End of Analog TV Approaches, Converter Boxes Are Scarce | Epicenter from Wired.com

When TV stations go all-digital on February 18, 2009, as mandated by the FCC, people who own older, analog televisions will find nothing but snowy screens on every channel. A

Earth Science Picture of the Day

The Physics of Pinewood Derby Cars

Rocking: Guitar Rising for Real Guitar Heroes

I never got the whole Guitar Hero Rock Band and their fake guitars playing thingie which require so much practice

Google to help green technologies amass scale | Environment | Reuters

By Nichola Groom

INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Google Inc is prepared
to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in big commercial
alternative-energy projects that traditionally have had trouble

Watchdogs are wary of new licences

Vancouver Province - Online source for Vancouver news, sports, entertainment, crime, politics, weather and more.

TheStar.com | sciencetech | Turning physics on its ear

The Toronto Star

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