Who Owns Your Great Idea? - NYTimes.com
That depends. Where did you have it and whom did you brainstorm with?

Convert your Honda Accord to run on trash

We may not yet have a flux capacitor for time travel, but we do already have the equivalent of "Mr. Fusion", w...

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The Food Dance Gets New Life When Bees Get Cocaine in an Addiction Study - NYTimes.com

To learn more about the biochemistry of addiction, scientists are giving bees cocaine and have found the insects react much like humans do.

Researchers Create an Epic Genetic Atlas of Rice

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale researchers have published a cellular atlas of genetic activity in rice, documenting with unprecedented detail how and when genes are turned off and on within cells of a living organism.

What's Inside Raid? Watch Out, Kitty!

Get the latest in science news, including space, physics, planet earth, discoveries, NASA, satellites, and space travel from Wired.com

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Getting into space by broomstick
The proposed space elevator project could be powered by a simple new approach, demonstrated using a broomstick.

The Year 2038 Problem

Volcanoes cool the tropics, say researchers

Climate researchers have shown that big volcanic eruptions over the past 450 years have temporarily cooled weather in the tropics—but suggest that such effects may have been masked in the 20th century by rising global temperatures. Their paper, which shows that higher latitudes can be even more sensitive ...

American Civil Liberties Union : Surveillance Society Clock

Using data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the ACLU has determined that nearly 2/3 of the entire US population (197.4 million people) live within 100 miles of the US land and coastal borders.

Paul Harris: Frugality is cool in the cash-strapped US | Business | The Observer

Paul Harris analyses the tests facing the new president of a shattered nation where greed is no longer good

The Rat Apocalypse of Lehua : TreeHugger
photo by C+H The Hawaiian island of Lehua will soon be ratless or, if you prefer, without rats. It is not a piper, pied or otherwise, that is leading these rats to their demise. Instead, helicopters are the chosen

Israeli Troops Launch Attack on Gaza - NYTimes.com

Israeli tanks and troops swept across the border into Gaza on Saturday night, opening a ground war against Hamas after a week of intense airstrikes.

Living Together - Are Cloned Pets the Real Thing? - NYTimes.com

Living with the clones of a dead dog has its surprises. The DNA may be the same but the behavior is another story.

A New Cigarette Hazard - ‘Third-Hand Smoke’ - NYTimes.com

Toxic residue from cigarette smoke clings to hair and carpets, endangering children, experts say. .

12 Good Gadgets for Hard Times | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

An economic crisis changes the way you think about gadgets. Is a $400 game console bundle really what you want to be spending your hard-earned money on, considering that you

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Propaganda war: trusting what we see?

The BBC's Paul Reynolds look at the efforts Israel has made in the propaganda war over Gaza and at how in one instance, it has backfired.

New Map Shows Wilderness Disappearing : TreeHugger
Image: JRC GEM How close do you live to a city of 50,000 or more? How long does it take you to reach the 'wilderness'? A fascinating map created for the World Bank World Development Report 2009 explores the

E.P.A. Ruling Could Speed Up Approval of Coal Plants - NYTimes.com
Officials weighing federal applications by utilities to build new coal-fired power plants cannot consider their greenhouse gas output, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency ruled.

How research into 'clocks' in plants could change our lives

(PhysOrg.com) -- From ensuring blooms for Mother’s Day to easing sleep disruption due to jet lag or shiftwork, new research into the ‘clocks’ in plants by a team of University of Glasgow plants scientists could have implications for the way we live our lives.

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It's A Dirty Job, And I Love It! - Forbes.com

Whether it's milking venomous spiders or picking up roadkill, the secret to career fulfillment is not to follow your passions, but to chase your opportunities.

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Tree man's roots begin to grow back - Telegraph

The tree man of Java has suffered a setback after bark-like growths that doctors removed from his hands and feet began to grow back.

Why Is There Still a Frog Disruptor In My Toothpaste? : TreeHugger
For well over two years we have been wondering why they still allow chemicals like triclosan in products like soap, creams and even toothpaste. We know people are crazed about using antibacterial products, even though they do more harm

America's Disappearing Forests - The New York Times - Video Library

The mountain pine beetle, an insect pest, is destroying massive swaths of American lodgepole pine.

South Koreans Cut Back on Plastic Surgery - NYTimes.com

An indicator of the economic doldrums in South Korea: Seoul’s obsession with plastic surgery is waning, and once-crowded clinics are closing.

'Safest' seat remarks get Muslim family kicked off plane - CNN.com

A Muslim family removed from an airliner Thursday after passengers became concerned about their conversation say AirTran officials refused to rebook them, even after FBI investigators cleared them of wrongdoing.

Did This Man Just Rewrite Science? - New York Times

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Canada's forests, once huge help on greenhouse gases, now contribute to climate change -- chicagotribune.com

VANCOUVER — As relentlessly bad as the news about global warming seems to be, with ice at the poles melting faster than scientists had predicted and world temperatures rising higher than expected, there was at least a reservoir of hope stored here in Canada's vast forests.

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Cuba Relies on Urban Gardens to Feed Hungry Populace : TreeHugger

Planet Ark/Reuters has a nice piece out of Havana about how urban gardens are filling a key void in food production after three hurricanes wiped out 30 percent of the country's farm crops. In Cuba, urban gardens have proliferated in

World Briefing - Europe - Giving Them an Inch, and a Pint - NYTimes.com

The European Parliament voted to allow the continued use of the pint and the mile on Tuesday, a relief for Britain and Ireland.

Engineering algae to make fuel instead of sugar

PhysOrg.com: In pursuing cleaner energy there is such a thing as being too green. Unicellular microalgae, for instance, can be considered too green. In a paper in a special energy issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley describe a method for using microalgae for making biofuel. The researchers explain a way to genetically modify the tiny organisms, so as to minimize the number of chlorophyll molecules needed to harvest light without compromising the photosynthesis process in the cells. With this modification, instead of making more sugar molecules, the microalgae could be producing hydrogen or hydrocarbons.

Paradise Lost . NOW on PBS

For many island nations like Kiribati and Niue in the South Pacific, climate change is already more than just a theory -- it is a pressing, menacing reality.

A Glitch Closes Toronto Stock Exchange For a Day - NYTimes.com

The problem appeared to be with the computers that delivered trading information to brokerage houses and news organizations.

A Houston Surgeon’s Home, an Ode to His Wife and to God - NYTimes.com
A retired surgeon’s vision, made by his own hands in his Houston home, is an ode to love and morality.

New Discovery Could Rejuvenate the Brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of British Columbia have discovered why the brain loses its capacity to re-grow connections and repair itself, knowledge that could lead to therapeutics that “rejuvenate” the brain.

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World Coal Reserves Could Be a Fraction of Previous Estimates | Wired Science from Wired.com

SAN FRANCISCO — A new calculation of the world's coal reserves is much lower than previous estimates. If validated, the new info could have a massive impact on the fate

Mapping the Rats in New York City - TIME
Rats and cities have gone together since at least the Middle Ages. Now New York City is employing a high-tech tool — geocoding — to fight an age-old plague

Ultracapacitors Getting Tested on South Korea's Subways : TreeHugger
Image via Maxwell Technologies When I was little, my sister and I would wake up super early on Christmas morning and sit impatiently in our beds waiting for our parents to wake up. By about 6 am, we’d poke

OPEC Seeks Ways to Stabilize Declining Oil Prices - NYTimes.com

The oil cartel has been stunned by the stunning speed of the downturn, which has created a sudden nightmare for producers.

2008 Greek riots - The Big Picture - Boston.com

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Holland Township family angry that supermarket won't personalize cake for their son - The Express-Times | Lehigh Valley PA Newspaper - lehighvalleylive.com

Get the latest Express-Times news, stories, columnists, blogs, photos and video about Central New York on lehighvalleylive.com. The Express-Times Lehigh Valley Online Newspaper.

The Best of the New York Times' Year in Ideas : TreeHugger

The New York Times' annual list of the Year in Ideas and GOOD sorted out some of the 'potentially transformative' from the less world-changing (a chair that grows crystals on its surface in water anyone?) Nikhil's picks:the Brickley engine, a

The Brickley Engine Configuration, 15-20% Increase in Fuel Efficency, 15-20% Decrease in CO2 Emissions.

Saudi Says OPEC Will Cut Output Further - NYTimes.com
The cartel will slash its oil production by a further 2 million barrels a day, the Saudi oil minister said.

Jessica Fridrich Specializes in Problems That Only Seem Impossible to Solve - Biography - NYTimes.com

Jessica Fridrich pioneered a new method for speed solving the Rubik’s Cube, but has since moved on to other obsessions.

Looking Under the Hood and Seeing an Incubator - NYTimes.com

The creators of the car parts incubator, which can be built for less than $1,000, say it could prevent millions of newborn deaths in the developing world.

A Coat of Many Proteins May Be Giardia’s Downfall - NYTimes.com

Scientists have learned how giardia dodges the immune system and are applying the knowledge to develop a potential vaccine.

Findings - Tips From the Potlatch, Where Giving Knows No Slump - NYTimes.com

Is gift-giving a competition, an art, an expression of affection? That depends on the gift, and the giver.

K-State engineers helping develop energy-harvesting radios

PhysOrg.com: If changing the batteries in the remote control or smoke detector seems like a chore, imagine having to change hundreds of batteries in sensors scattered across a busy bridge.

Economists: Ancestral history explains roots of income inequality
PhysOrg.com: Two Brown University economists have created a new data set explaining differences in the world's current per capita gross domestic products (GDPs). In a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Louis Putterman and David N. Weil introduce a 'World Migration Matrix' showing that inequality among countries can be largely explained by where the ancestors of each country's people lived some 500 years ago. 'What matters is the history of the people who live in a country today, more than the history of the country itself,' they say.

wcbstv.com - Warrant Issued For New Jersey Man Frank Gilberti Paying Traffic Fine With Pennies

A Nutley, N.J., man is putting in his two cents about what he calls a lot of non-cents over a traffic ticket. He has been trying to pay his fine in pennies, but the town is demanding he change his way of paying.

The Remains of Detroit - Photo Essays - TIME

Photographer Sean Hemmerle finds an elegiac sign of America's fading industrial might in the crumbling urban ruins of the Motor City

Mind - A Crisis of Confidence for Finance Workers - NYTimes.com

It is too soon to gauge the true psychiatric consequences of the economic debacle, but the crisis is leaving its mark on individuals.

International Energy Agency Sees Oil Use Falling - NYTimes.com

An energy agency expects global demand to fall by 200,000 barrels a day to 85.8 million barrels a day.

About New York - What the Search Engines Have Found Out About All of Us - NYTimes.com
A list of Google search queries by New Yorkers reveals an enormous interest in proton smashing and Bauhaus architecture.

The Day the Earth Stood Still to Be Broadcast to Outer Space - NYTimes.com

The makers of the new movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” have arranged for it to be beamed into space on Friday.

Domestic Lives - Building a Home for Another Life - NYTimes.com

Building a cabin, I’m finding, can be a lever into a middle-aged man’s rural fantasies.

Dreams may no longer be secret with Japan computer screen

PhysOrg.com: A Japanese research team has revealed it had created a technology that could eventually display on a computer screen what people have on their minds, such as dreams.

Bacteria detoxify deadly seawater

PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- Some marine bacteria produce hydrogen sulphide, which is toxic to animals. Scientists have now discovered that bacteria also protect marine animals from this toxic gas. A bacterial bloom detoxified a vast expanse of hydrogen sulphide-containing water off the coast of Namibia, before it could unfold its full deadly impact. (Nature, early online edition, December 11th, 2008)

Video Shows Every Flight on Earth in 72 Seconds | Autopia from Wired.com

Aspiring scientists from the Zurich School of Applied Sciences have built a video simulation that displays the flight path of every commercial flight in the world over a 24-hour period.

MIT: Your Meteorologist Needs an Army of Drones | Wired Science from Wired.com
Flying drones aren't just for firing rockets at unsuspecting enemies anymore. By using swarms of sensor-laden flying robots, a team of MIT scientists says they can improve weather predictions

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Obama makes pick for energy chief, sources say - CNN.com

President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Steven Chu, a physicist who runs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as his energy secretary, three Democratic officials close to the transition said.

Derinkuyu, the mysterious underground city of Turkey | Corner Mystery

Derinyuku es una de las ciudades subterráneas antiguas más fascinantes que se han encontrado hasta ahora, una autentica ciudad bajo tierra.

Obama and McCain Political Banners Team-up to Help Homeless in Colorado : TreeHugger

Photo Credit Carol Mitchell At the end of every election, there is always a leftover pile of buttons, signs, banners, broken and elated hearts. This year was no different than any other, and while many states had recycle programs

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Chinese city downsizes for Unesco

The Chinese city of Hangzhou plans to lop off the top floors of several buildings to help the city's world heritage status bid, officials say.

Ozone Depletion Contributes to Ocean Acidification in the Southern Ocean : TreeHugger
Image from World Meteorological Organization Forty percent: That is the share of annual oceanic carbon dioxide uptake accounted for by the Southern Ocean. Given that oceans comprise Earth's largest carbon sink, that is not an insignificant figure; indeed, this

As Rates Near Zero, the Fed Turns to Unproven Methods - NYTimes.com

The Federal Reserve must now turn to an approach called “quantitative easing,” because it involves injecting money into the economy rather than aiming at an interest rate.

Necessary Medicine? - NYTimes.com

Health care and the economy share a sickbed. Barack Obama placed a heavy bet last week that they can recover together.

Observatory - Corals Indicate Another Sumatra Quake Is Likely - NYTimes.com

Scientists are forecasting that in the next several decades there will be another major earthquake off Sumatra like the one that spawned the tsunami in 2004.

A ’70s Cult Novel Is Relevant Again - NYTimes.com

“Ecotopia,” the '70s cult novel, has seeped into the American groundwater without becoming well known.

Hackers Plundering Brazilian Rain Forest | Threat Level from Wired.com

Brazilian hackers have gamed the government logging permitting processs, enabling the wanton theft of Amazon resources. Associated Press Brazilian authorities are investigating a hacking ring controlled by logging companies that

More food at lower cost: Important step forward towards increasing crop yields
PhysOrg.com: In the face of climate change, being able to increase crop yields by enabling plants to take up nutrients and water more efficiently becomes increasingly important, as fertiliser and water supplies incur significant energy and environmental costs.

Bush: Iraq war is not over, more work ahead - Yahoo! News

On an Iraq trip shrouded in secrecy and marred by dissent, President George W. Bush on Sunday hailed progress in the war that defines his presidency and got a size-10 reminder of his unpopularity when a man hurled two shoes at him during a news conference. News, Headlines and Latest Stories on Yahoo! News

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Super-Concrete to Store Solar Power in Works : TreeHugger

photo by billaday Researchers at the University of Arkansas are working to develop a new way of storing thermal energy in concrete. They were given an award from the U.S. Department of Energy in the sum of $770, 000

Doubt (2008)
Directed by John Patrick Shanley. With Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams. Set in 1964, Doubt centers on a nun who confronts a priest after suspecting him abusing a black student. He denies the charges, and much of the play's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality and authority. Visit IMDb for Photos, Showtimes, Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary, Comments, Discussions, Taglines, Trailers, Posters, Fan Sites

In Defense of Teasing - NYTimes.com

Why sticking your tongue out, mocking your parents, going for the punch line — or giving a noogie — really does make you a better person.

News Analysis - In Washington, Some Optimism About a Big Three Bankruptcy - NYTimes.com

Supporters of the Big Three bailout contend that Lehman Brothers’ failure shows that there can be unanticipated consequences of allowing a major company to go under.

Eye Spy: Filmmaker Plans to Install Camera in His Eye Socket | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

Rob Spence looks you straight in the eye when he talks. So it's a little unnerving to imagine that soon one of his hazel-green eyes will have a tiny wireless

Op-Ed Columnist - A Killer Without Borders - NYTimes.com

Americans don’t think much about tuberculosis, just as we didn’t think much of AIDS in the 1980s. The risk is that our myopia will catch up with us.

The FBI hero who joined the Mafia - Americas, World - The Independent

Sitting in an unmarked sedan car in South Boston, John Connolly had his binoculars trained on a scene just a block away. It was a gruesome spectacle: a man who had just delivered guns and ammunition to the IRA by ship, was being tortured to death by Boston's most notorious gangster on suspicion of being a snitch for the FBI.

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On the Road - Tempting the Thieves With the Pocketables - NYTimes.com

Thw Transportation Security Administration has fired 465 officers for theft since the spring of 2003.

Researcher finds link between aggression, status and sex

PhysOrg.com: Have you ever wondered why it seems like the littlest things make people angry? Why a glance at the wrong person or a spilled glass of water can lead to a fist fight or worse? University of Minnesota researcher Vladas Griskevicius has three words to explain why people may be evolutionarily inclined to make a mountain out of molehill: aggression, status and sex.

Synthetic e. coli could build a better biofuel: study

PhysOrg.com: US researcher have engineered a synthetic version of the common e. coli bacteria that could help build a better biofuel, according to a study published Monday.

Could Males Really Become The Weaker Sex? - Science - redOrbit

Scientific research from around the world suggests that the male gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both humans and wildlife.

SUVs at altar, Detroit church prays for a bailout | Markets | Markets News | Reuters

By Kevin Krolicki and Soyoung Kim
DETROIT, Dec 7 (Reuters) - With sport-utility vehicles at
the altar and auto workers in the pews, one of Detroit's
largest churches on Sunday offered up prayers for

reportonbusiness.com: Chrysler turns up the heat on Canada
The most authoritative news in Canada featuring articles from The Globe and Mail, breaking news coverage, national news, international news, sports, weather, Report on Business.

First Arctic Ice-Free Summer Will be in 2015 : TreeHugger

Image from NASA It's hard sometimes to make heads or tail of all these gloomy predictions -- what with the projected year always changing (just scan through our previous posts on the subject to see what I mean) --

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First Summit on Building Integrated Sustainable Agriculture : TreeHugger

Image credit: Sky Vegetables Vertical Farming Innovators Convene for Two-Day Summit Vertical farming, or building-integrated sustainable agriculture – call it what you will – the idea of commercial or residential buildings that can produce a significant proportion of their

Bank of Canada Cuts Rate to 50-Year Low - NYTimes.com

The central bank unexpectedly cut its key rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to 1.5 percent and declared the Canadian economy to be in a recession.

Scorpios Get More Asthma, but Astrology Isn’t to Blame - NYTimes.com

How, when and where a child is born may all play a role in lifetime asthma risk, new studies suggest.

Researchers Put a Microscope on Food Allergies - NYTimes.com
An international study is searching for causes of food allergy by looking at hundreds of families in Boston, Chicago and Anhui Province in China.

Researchers Plan to Simulate Movements of 300 Million Americans

PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Virginia Tech are developing a computer simulation that matches the movements of all 300 million people in towns across the US. The team hopes that the model will help them understand the spread of contagious diseases, fads, and traffic flows.

Fire-Ant Invasions Are Ecological Karma | Wired Science from Wired.com

If humans didn't make it so easy for them, invasive fire ants wouldn't invade. So concludes one of the first experimental tests of the hypothesis that invasive species are not

Complex Medical Test Made From Paper and Tape for Three Cents | Wired Science from Wired.com

A sophisticated medical test that checks for dozens of diseases at the same time can be made from little more than paper and double-sided tape, bringing the cost within reach

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