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Metrics - Guccis or Gadgets? - NYTimes.comWhen you have some extra cash padding your wallet, do you reach for the latest jeans or the sleekest new music player? Much of that decision, it seems, depends on where you live.
Unboxed - When Academia Puts Profit Ahead of Wonder - NYTimes.com
The University Small Business Patent Procedures Act is under increasing scrutiny by swelling ranks of critics, who charge that it has distorted the fundamental mission of universities.
Living Together - In Studies of Virtual Twins, Nature Wins Again - NYTimes.com
When parents pursue several ways to have a child, the stage is set for virtual twins, genetic strangers who share an environment from an early point in life.
Assessing the Value of Small Wind Turbines - NYTimes.com
Interest for wind turbines small enough to mount on a roof is spreading from coast to coast, even though their installation is hardly ever recouped in electricity savings.
Observatory - Marijuana Ingredient May Fight Bacteria - NYTimes.com
Researchers have discovered that the main active ingredient in marijuana shows promise as an antibacterial agent.
For the Brain, Remembering Is Like Reliving - NYTimes.com
For the first time, scientists have recorded individual brain cells fetching a spontaneous memory.
The Food Chain - Russia’s Collective Farms - Hot Capitalist Property - Series - NYTimes.com
As food prices soar, the improbable business of buying and reforming collective farms has attracted financiers.
Solar energy can meet all the world's energy demands: expert
PhysOrg.com: The world must speed up the deployment of solar power as it has the potential to meet all the world's energy needs, the chairman of an industry gathering which wrapped up Friday in Spain said.
How plants fine tune their natural chemical defenses
PhysOrg.com: Even closely related plants produce their own natural chemical cocktails, each set uniquely adapted to the individual plant's specific habitat. Comparing anti-fungals produced by tobacco and henbane, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies discovered that only a few mutations in a key enzyme are enough to shift the whole output to an entirely new product mixture. Making fewer changes led to a mixture of henbane and tobacco-specific molecules and even so-called 'chemical hybrids,' explaining how plants can tinker with their natural chemical factories and adjust their product line to a changing environment without shutting down intracellular chemical factories completely.
UN says eat less meat to curb global warming | Environment | The Observer
Top expert's advice on diet change to save environment likely to provoke strong reaction from food industry
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Europe Pulls Ahead of U.S. in Physics | Newsweek International Edition | Newsweek.com
The Large Hadron Collider is a symptom of America's decline in particle physics and, some fear, in science overall.
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Prions jump species barrier : Nature News
Nature - the world's best science and medicine on your desktop
Here They Are, Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments - New York Times
A Brownstone Becomes an Ivory Tower, and New York City Is the Campus - NYTimes.com
An elite undergraduate program of the City University of New York is being taught for the first time this fall in a majestic four-story brownstone on the Upper West Side.
Google’s Search Goes Out to Sea - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper - NYTimes.com
Plastic Logic will introduce publicly on Monday its version of an electronic newspaper reader: a lightweight plastic screen that mimics the look -- but not the feel -- of a printed newspaper.
'Omnivorous engine' hopes to run on many fuels
PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- The 'omnivorous engine' is no picky eater. Gasoline? Down the hatch. Ethanol? Butanol? It'll slurp those up too. The creators of the omnivorous engine, engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, seek to fashion an engine that can run on just about any type of spark-ignited fuel.
Top 10 Amazing Physics Videos | Wired Science from Wired.com
Tesla coils, superconductors, and hilarious music videos are great reasons to be excited about physics. Here are some of our favorites.
Biologists on the Verge of Creating New Form of Life | Wired Science from Wired.com
A team of biologists and chemists is closing in on bringing non-living matter to life. It's not as Frankensteinian as it sounds. Instead, a lab led by Jack Szostak, a
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5 Real World Criminals Who Were Certified Super-Villains | Cracked.com
5 Real World Criminals Who Were Certified Super-Villains. Sure they were evil, but they were also crazy.
How memories are made, and recalled
PhysOrg.com: What makes a memory? Single cells in the brain, for one thing. For the first time, scientists at UCLA and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have recorded individual brain cells in the act of calling up a memory, thus revealing where in the brain a specific memory is stored, and how it is able to recreate it.
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