Obama Administration Still Sold on Solar Power
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in an AP interview on September 21 that the Obama administration will continue to support solar power. He...
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Facebook Announces Increased Privacy Protection
In the wake of criticism over privacy issues on Facebook, the social network has responded by indicating it will make significant changes to...
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Technology Keeping Internet Freedom Ahead of Censorship
Efforts by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to regulate the Internet may become irrelevant if the new technology being developed succeeds as...
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Obama’s Commerce Secretary Nominee Calls for Carbon Tax
Should energy consumers pay extra taxes to fund government-mandated and subsidized renewable energy technologies? "Absolutely yes," says John Bryson, President Obama's nominee for...
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Democrats Work to Expand Natural-gas Drilling Regulations
Democrats on Capitol Hill are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to redefine "diesel fuel" so it can expand regulations in natural-gas...
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Nixing Nuclear Threatens Bayer’s Future in Germany
Rising energy prices in Germany are forcing the pharmaceutical and chemical conglomerate Bayer to threaten a move to China. The culprit is Germany's...
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Is NASA Still Needed?
In 1958, Congress created NASA, the National Aeronautical and Space Administration. The rationale for America's first venture into outer space was national security:...
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After Bilderberg Meeting, Facebook Official Says End Internet Anonymity
After attending the Bilderberg conference in Switzerland in June, Facebook’s marketing director, Randi Zuckerberg, announced that she had solved the cyberbullying issue: Prohibit...
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Private Industry’s “Moon Race” Now Underway
With the landing last week of America’s last space shuttle, the nation stands at a critical point in the history of space exploration....
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NASA Administrator Ponders a Post-Shuttle Era
As the space shuttle Atlantis orbits the earth on its final flight, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is attempting to chart a new course...
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Government Funding Down; Scientists Experiment With “Crowd-Funding” Websites
In recent decades such a large portion of scientific research has been funded by governments, either directly or through government-funded universities, that most...
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Keeping the Final Space Shuttle Mission in Perspective
As the last flight of NASA’s space shuttle began with a photogenic launch this morning, the future of manned space flight is far...
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Apple Pulls Anti-Israel App.
Apple has honored a request from Israel to pull a free iPhone application from its online store that the Israeli government said incited...
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Facebook to Launch Its Own iPad App
Facebook for iPhone is the most-downloaded iPhone app ever, but more than a year after Apple introduced the iPad, there is still a...
Read moreI.B.M. Releases New Graphene Circuits
I.B.M. researchers said Thursday that they had designed high-speed circuits from graphene, an ultra-thin material that has a host of promising applications, from...
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