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Silicon Valley legend Andy Grove said Tuesday that the nation should convert millions of gas-guzzling pickups and SUVs into plug-in hybrids to dramatically cut our use of foreign oil.

Researchers from four leading cancer centers have confirmed that an analysis involving a panel of genes can be used to predict which lung cancer patients will have the worst survival. The finding could one day lead to a test that would help determine who needs more aggressive treatment.

Monday at an FCC hearing held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh entitled "Broadband and the Digital Future," AT&T Senior Federal Regulatory Vice President Robert Quinn spoke and outlined a plan for instituting tiered service, starting in October. But wait, it's not what you're thinking!

O'Rourke's dire tone comes from the resort's lost battle with a bug--the mountain pine beetle--that is destroying much of Beaver Creek's lush green vistas and reducing them to barren brown patches.

A study of 203 pregnant women finds a connection, but experts caution that the group is too small to draw definitive results. Still, they say they aren't surprised.

The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again - online.

Yes, you can now use Google Maps to keep from getting lost while walking. If you use Google Maps for your direction finding needs, you'll now find that it has an option for walking directions (as shown above).

After completing one of the longest running experiments ever done on a lake, researchers from the University of Alberta, University of Minnesota and the Freshwater Institute, contend that nitrogen control, in which the European Union and many other jurisdictions around the world are investing millions of dollars, is not effective and in fact, may actually increase the problem of cultural eutrophication.

In February this year there appeared in Physics World an article entitled Constant Failure by Robert P Crease of Stony Brook University, in which he showed in how many formulae of physics and mathematics ...

A project funded by the Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory will test bidirectional battery chargers and "smart" grids that could prevent U.S. electric grid overload from plug-in vehicles.

When Michael Soule researched butterflies in this mountain valley in the early 1960s, the nearby town of Crested Butte was little more than a busted coal-mining settlement.

Despite rumors to the contrary, global warming is still happening, the American Physical Society says.

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You'll recall that in February I wrote about security researchers who had found a way to break into encrypted hard drives by using a trick that relies on the fact that RAM dissipates its contents slower if cooled.

Fish being used to do pedicures? Well, what will they think of next?

You might have heard of fish that scavenge or pick parasites off of other fish. There are even some who mimic such scavenger fish but end up taking a huge bite out of a "patient" instead.

Leading world scientists convene in Brazil July 21-25 amid growing concern that evaporation and ongoing destruction of world wetlands, which hold a volume of carbon similar to that in the atmosphere today, could cause them to exhale billows of greenhouse gases.

“A lot of the companies prey on the fact that your kid is important to you,” said the dad-to-be, Kiley Gustafson, 30, who estimates the couple have received 25 private cord blood banking pamphlets in the past several months. “I understand enough about it to know what they wanted to do.”

Has the drama finally ended? According to a press release issued today, it seems that Yahoo! and Carl Icahn, who was seeking to replace much if not all of Yahoo!'s Board of Directors (BoD) during the upcoming August 1st shareholders meeting, have come to an agreement.

A new technology that spots tooth decay almost as soon as it's begun promises to reduce the need for drilling and filling.

The white horse is an icon for dignity which has had a huge impact on human culture across the world.