Archive for December, 2009
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- Romney clinches GOP presidential nod 05/30/2012Mitt Romney's longer than anticipated path to the nomination ends with a victory in Texas.
- A Texas runoff for the Senate nod 05/30/2012David Dewhurst was short of the majority needed to beat Ted Cruz and earn the nomination.
- Reyes trailing, Hall wins in Texas 05/30/2012It is the latest test in a rocky primary season for longtime congressional incumbents.
- Romney: Solyndra trumps Bain 05/29/2012Republicans haven't had much luck proving that Solyndra is synonymous with government graft.
- Newt on Obama's birth 05/30/2012Those who question it aren't racist, he says.
- Artur Davis openly flirts with GOP bid 05/30/2012He announces Tuesday that he's cutting ties with the Democratic Party and looking to his right.
- Frank clarifies 'hoodie' comment 05/29/2012The retiring lawmaker explains a refence he made related to the Trayvon Martin shooting.
- Trump takes shot at CNN ratings 05/30/2012In a fiery exchange with Wolf Blitzer this afternoon, the two men called one another "ridiculous."
- 'Fiscal cliff' worries economists 05/30/2012If the situation looks dire, the economic pullback could start immediately.
- IT could be reform's highest hurdle 05/30/2012California dramatically illustrates the challenge pro-health reform states face.
- Non-tech patents may be hard to get 05/30/2012A legal case may make software patents harder to get, but some say that would be a good thing.
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- Iconic New Zealand reptile shows chewing is not just for mammals 05/30/2012The tuatara, an iconic New Zealand reptile, chews its food in a way unlike any other animal on the planet -- challenging the widespread perception that complex chewing ability is closely linked to high metabolism.
- 21st century bloodletting reduces cardiovascular risk 05/30/2012It seems that while the practice of bloodletting throughout history had little or no effect on most diseases, and the practice was abandoned in the 19th century, new research demonstrates that blood donation has real benefits for obese people with metabolic syndrome. Two sessions of bloodletting were enough to improve blood pressure and markers of cardiovas […]
- Antioxidant shows promise as treatment for certain features of autism 05/29/2012A specific antioxidant supplement may be an effective therapy for some features of autism, according to a pilot trial that involved 31 children with the disorder.
- Mathematicians can conjure matter waves inside an invisible hat 05/29/2012Mathematicians have devised an amplifier that can boost light, sound or other waves while hiding them inside an invisible container.
- Copper-nickel nanowires could be perfect fit for printable electronics 05/29/2012Chemists have mixed some nickel into their recipe for low-cost copper nanowires to prevent them from turning green like old pennies. The flexible, electrically conductive nanowires conduct electricity even under conditions that break down the transfer of electrons in plain silver and copper nanowires. Films made with copper-nickel nanowires are stable and in […]
- Chemical fingerprinting tracks the travels of little brown bats 05/29/2012A novel technique using stable hydrogen isotopes —- a chemical fingerprint found in tissues such as hair —- has enabled researchers to determine where hibernating bats originated. Knowing that could help predict and ultimately manage the spread of white-nose syndrome.
- Facts in scientific drug literature may not be 05/29/2012A growing concern with fraud and misconduct in published drug studies has led researchers to investigate the extent and reasons for retractions in the research.
- Gap exists between seniors' opinion of driving ability and performance 05/29/2012The majority of older adults rate themselves as excellent drivers though one in four had a wreck in previous five years.
- Myth of the disconnected telecommuter debunked 05/29/2012The assumption that employees who regularly telecommute will feel less attached to the organization they work for due to feeling isolated and disconnected is a myth, according to a new study.
- Discovery of historical photos sheds light on Greenland ice loss 05/29/2012A chance discovery of 80-year-old photo plates in a Danish basement is providing new insight into how Greenland glaciers are melting today.
- Ghostly gamma-ray beams blast from Milky Way's center 05/29/2012As galaxies go, our Milky Way is pretty quiet. Active galaxies have cores that glow brightly, powered by supermassive black holes swallowing material, and often spit twin jets in opposite directions. In contrast, the Milky Way's center shows little activity. But it wasn't always so peaceful. New evidence of ghostly gamma-ray beams suggests that the […]
- Diabetes drug could be a promising therapy for traumatic brain injury 05/29/2012A researcher says that a common FDA-approved diabetes drug significantly minimizes brain damage when administered shortly after a traumatic injury suffered in an explosion or car accident.
- Iconic New Zealand reptile shows chewing is not just for mammals 05/30/2012
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- Pill Could Reverse Effects of a Stroke Long After It Hits 05/30/2012One pharmaceutical company aims to lengthen a stroke's drug-treatable period from hours to months. For the 800,000 people in the United States who suffer a stroke each year, the window for drug therapy closes in the first few hours after the attack. That leaves some seven million stroke survivors in this country alone with no medical alternative beyond […]
- Cheap Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Moves toward Commercialization 05/30/2012Printable photovoltaics could become viable, thanks to a new advance. Easy-to-make solar cells that capture light with dyes have garnered an impressive string of scientific awards, including the Millennium Technology Prize in 2010. Yet they've had little commercial impact since their invention in 1988.
- The Great Bandwidth Brawl 05/30/2012Wireless networks are scrambling to feed the growing hunger for mobile data and downloads. AT&T has a problem in Chicago. The city was one of the first to be upgraded to the wireless carrier's next-generation LTE (long-term evolution) network, which packs more data into a radio signal and offers much faster download speeds. But independent tests pub […]
- US Military Chips "Compromised" 05/30/2012As military hardware uses more off the shelf components, it has become vulnerable to common exploits. A researcher in Cambridge has issued a report claiming that a common sort of reprogrammable microchip (an FPGA, for you gearheads) contains a deliberately-obscured backdoor that would allow anyone with knowledge of it to clone or reprogram the chip. These ch […]
- Engineers Develop Cheap Onboard Tracking System For UAVs 05/29/2012Cheap UAVs may soon be able to follow cars or station keep over buildings thanks to a Department of Defense project to make autonomous flyers more capable The popularity of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAVs has exploded in just a few years. That's the result of smaller, cheaper computers that allow these vehicles to fly unaided, better radio communicatio […]
- Where Speech Recognition Is Going 05/29/2012Voice-controlled interfaces are showing up in mobile phones, TVs, and automobiles. One company believes it can give just about everything a voice. Until recently, the idea of holding a conversation with a computer seemed pure science fiction. If you asked a computer to "open the pod bay doors"—well, that was only in movies.
- Irish Mathematicians Solve The Guinness Sinking Bubble Problem 05/28/2012
- In Pictures: The World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Plant 05/28/2012BrightSource’s 370-megawatt facility near Las Vegas is taking shape, but the future of solar thermal is much more fuzzy.
- How Small Can a Speaker Get? 05/25/2012And still be any good? Speakers are getting smaller and smaller these days, but can a speaker be both truly portable and worthwhile? A spate of reviews of one of the leading mini-speakers suggests we aren’t quite there yet.
- What Happened to A123? 05/25/2012Once the rising star of the clean-tech industry, the advanced battery maker faces an uncertain future. A few days after A123 went public in the fall of 2009, the value of the company's stock nearly doubled as investors rushed to get a piece of one of the hottest clean-tech companies. The company boasted advanced lithium-ion battery technology, developed […]
- Pill Could Reverse Effects of a Stroke Long After It Hits 05/30/2012
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- On The Economic Ladder, Rungs Move Further Apart 05/29/2012Many Americans have long believed that the United States is a land of opportunity, where anyone who works hard can climb the economic ladder. But evidence from recent decades indicates that, for many Americans, that dream of economic mobility falls short.
- Lawyers, Not Victims, Making Most In Madoff Cleanup 05/29/2012Robert Siegel talks with New York Times editor and business columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin about Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee working to recover funds for the victims of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme. So far, Picard's firm has generated $554 million in legal and other fees.
- Who Decides Whether This 26-Year-Old Woman Gets A Lung Transplant? 05/29/2012Ashley Dias needs lungs. So do lots of other patients. Scarcity is a problem with organ transplants, and, unlike other scarce resources, organs can't be bought or sold. Here's how doctors decide who gets to be at the top of the waiting list.
- On Second Thought, Maybe Consumer Confidence Isn't That High 05/29/2012While one group's measure hit its highest level since 2007, another's declined in May.
- Home Prices Haven't 'Turned,' But Some Edged Up As Quarter Ended 05/29/2012The first quarter was another down one. But as it ended — in March — there were slight to modest gains in 12 cities.
- Virus Infects Computers Throughout Middle East 05/29/2012Researchers have discovered what they're calling the largest and most sophisticated cyber weapon ever unleashed. It's called Flame, and it's been infecting computers throughout the Middle East — especially in Iran. Analysts describe it as an "attack toolkit" that conceals itself in massive amounts of code and gathers all kinds of inf […]
- Sotheby's To Auction An Original Apple Computer 05/29/2012Sotheby's is auctioning off an Apple I computer that first came onto the scene in 1976. It's expected to fetch up to $180,000. About six in existence still function.
- Dire Predictions Amid Another Looming Fiscal Battle 05/29/2012The Bush-era tax cuts expire at the end of the year, along with the payroll tax break; the nation's borrowing authority bumps against its limit; and huge mandatory spending cuts — half targeting defense — are set to kick in. All this could trigger another recession, but Congress is unlikely to do much about it until after November's election.
- American Dream Faces Harsh New Reality 05/29/2012The idea of the American Dream is woven through this country's politics, music and culture. It suggests a belief that hard work pays off, and that children will have a better life than their parents. But as the effects of the economic downturn continue to reverberate, many feel the American Dream is in jeopardy.
- Family Matters: Pitching In To Take Care Of Grandma 05/29/2012Sharing the duties of caring for the family's 87-year-old matriarch has brought the Martin family closer together. Everyone in the multigenerational household, including the teenage kids, lends a hand. But the situation is also forcing the Harrisburg, Pa., family to think about the future in new ways.
- On The Economic Ladder, Rungs Move Further Apart 05/29/2012
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- Watching Big Brother: Privacy Board Delayed 05/29/2012An oversight board designed to protect privacy rights by making sure the government doesn't overstep its bounds has been authorized for years. But politics seems to be getting in the way of launching the panel.
- 'Flame' Malware Designed For Spying, Not 'Cyber War' 05/29/2012The latest entrant in the arsenal of advanced cyber packages deployed by governments or corporations for use against their adversaries is a piece of malicious software dubbed "Flame." The malware contains a wide variety of espionage tools, including a feature that activates the internal microphone in personal computers and enables the user to monit […]
- 'Flame' Malware Said To Be Targeting Iran: Huge Deal Or Huge Hype? 05/29/2012Word from the antivirus experts at Kaspersky Lab that "we've found what might be the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet unleashed," and that this Flame spyware is targeting Iran and some places in the Middle East, is getting lots of attention.
- How Firms Can Recover From High-Tech Stumbles 05/29/2012Bloomberg News technology columnist Rich Jaroslovsky talks to David Greene about what happens when good gadgets go bad. Whether it's failed hardware or software, how a company handles a botched release has become increasingly important.
- Tech Look Ahead: Apple After Steve Jobs 05/28/2012Melissa Block looks ahead to this week's tech news with Steve Henn.
- Vintage Spy Plane Gives High-Tech Drone A Run For Its Money 05/28/2012In the early days of the Cold War, the U-2 spy plane helped the U.S. collect intelligence on the Soviet Union. More than a half-century later, not only is the U-2 still in commission, but it's also successfully competing against the more expensive, remotely piloted Global Hawk.
- As Headphones Invade The Office, Are We Lonelier? 05/28/2012Headphones have become common in the workplace, allowing people to tune out their co-workers. But in many cases, those same co-workers are still communicating — online. Critics say technology is letting us hide from one another, but in one case study workers who posted on an internal company blog actually increased productivity.
- Long Before The Internet, The Linotype Sped Up The News 05/28/2012In 1886, Ottmar Mergenthaler invented a machine that could create an entire line of type at once. It was called the linotype and it revolutionized the way we communicate.
- Patients Crusade For Access To Their Medical Device Data 05/28/2012Heart implants supply doctors with data that can tell them a lot about a patient's health. But that information isn't directly available to patients. Now some patients are on a mission to get faster access to information about their hearts.
- Patients Find Each Other Online To Jump-Start Medical Research 05/28/2012Through their Facebook pages, chat rooms and message boards, patients are recruiting each other to participate in medical research in a kind of virtual word-of-mouth. Patient-initiated research is especially appealing to people with rare diseases whom researchers can't easily find.
- Watching Big Brother: Privacy Board Delayed 05/29/2012
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- White House Petitioned to Make Research Free to Access 05/29/2012From Nature magazine [More]
- Blowing Its Cover: Crystallized Volcanic Rocks Provide a Window into Mount Saint Helens's Plumbing 05/28/2012Thirty-two years ago this month an explosive eruption reshaped Mount Saint Helens in a matter of seconds. An earthquake under the volcano in Washington State on May 18, 1980, triggered the largest landslide in recorded history as billions of cubic meters of mountainside tumbled away, initiating a massive release of gas, lava and ash. The cataclysm killed 57 […]
- Are Eyewitnesses in the Zimmerman Trial Reliable? 05/26/2012Newly released court documents in the second-degree-murder case against neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman reveal that, in the month following his fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, four key witnesses significantly changed their accounts of what they saw and heard that night. The more recent versions of their memories tend to be more dam […]
- Biosecurity Panel Flailed in Oversight of Mutant Bird Flu 05/26/2012From Nature magazine [More]
- How Can We Cope with the Dirty Water from Fracking? 05/25/2012The nation's oil and gas wells produce at least nine billion liters of contaminated water per day, according to an Argonne National Laboratory report. And that is an underestimate of the amount of brine, fracking fluid and other contaminated water that flows back up a well along with the natural gas or oil, because it is based on incomplete data from st […]
- Why America's Love Affair with Cars Is No Accident 05/24/2012Drivers may feel spooked by seeing the first self-driving cars appear in coming years. But the new era could prove far less disruptive and bloody than the automobile's 20th-century battle to push pedestrians off U.S. streets. [More]
- Dollars and Scents: The Chemistry of a Delicious Tomato 05/24/2012The typical supermarket tomato: ripe red, firm to the touch, free of blemishes--and of flavor. Since at least the 1970s, U.S. consumers have lamented the beautiful but bland fruits that farmers breed not for taste, but rather for high yield and durability during shipping. Recently, organic farmers and foodies have championed the superior flavors of heirloom […]
- Just How Big Was the Biggest Earthquake? 05/24/2012This week marks the anniversary of the largest earthquake ever recorded -- a magnitude-9.5 earthquake that ripped along the coast of southern Chile on May 22, 1960. [More]
- "Artificial Leaf" Hits Development Hurdle 05/23/2012From Nature magazine [More]
- Off the Clock: Disrupted Daily Rhythms Hinder Fertility in Mice 05/23/2012
- White House Petitioned to Make Research Free to Access 05/29/2012
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- Mitt Romney clinches Republican nomination at Texas primary 05/30/2012
- Manhattanhenge blacked out as storm clouds obscure view of solar event 05/30/2012 Adam Gabbatt, Katie Rogers
- Arthel 'Doc' Watson dies 05/30/2012 Brian Braiker
- Facebook shares fall below $30 as US authorities begin investigation into IPO 05/29/2012 Dominic Rushe
- America's murderous drone campaign is fuelling terror | Seumas Milne 05/29/2012 Seumas Milne
- Donald Trump's 'birther' remarks take centre stage - US politics live 05/29/2012 Richard Adams
- Gulf Coast hurricane victims close to settling lawsuits over Fema trailers 05/29/2012
- Houla massacre: US accuses Iran of 'bragging' about its military aid to Syria 05/29/2012 Chris McGreal
- Tony Blair and the Murdochs: a family affair | Michael Wolff 05/29/2012 Michael Wolff
- Will Fukushima caesium in tuna stop you eating sushi? | Poll 05/29/2012Scientists believe that elevated levels of caesium found in bluefin tuna caught off California was caused by leaks of radioactivity from Fukushima in Japan. Will it stop you eating sushi?
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- Foreign Affairs Report: Global Public HealthMay 24, 2012 Prioritize the Poorest Dangerous Doses Developing Symptoms India's Polio Win When Superbugs Attack Money or Die Transitioning to an AIDS-Free Generation Setting the Record Straight on WHO Funding How Private Companies are Transforming the Global Public Health Agenda The Sick Man of Asia The Dying Bear The UN's Battle With NCDs Rape Rep […]
- The Struggle to Succeed Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani
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- Foreign Affairs Report: The Future of the EurozoneMay 17, 2012 Europe's New Normal Europe After the Crisis Austerity and the End of the European Model Merkel Is Wrong About EU Fiscal Regulation The Failure of the Euro What the EU Should Learn From Ireland's Austerity Fiasco The Origins of the Greek Financial Crisis Saving the Euro Will Mean Worse Trouble for Europe How Italy's Democracy Leads […]
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- Pictures of the Week: May 18 — May 25 05/25/2012From India's Sufi Muslim Urs Festival and the first intercontinental flight of the Solar Impulse to a suicide bombing of military soldiers in Sana'a and the beginning of Egypt's presidential election, TIME's photo department presents the best images of the week.TIME Photo Department
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