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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ceased print publication this week to focus solely on the Web, a transition that frightened some in the publishing business, coming so shortly after the Rocky Mountain News shut down. However, as many in the tech industry

From Cnet: “A new machine dubbed the “Black Phantom” can turn biomass into manmade coal. Carbonscape, a New Zealand-based start-up, describes its invention as an industrial-sized microwave that can cook plant waste, wood waste, and “even sewage” into coal. Carbonscape

Here’s the new Japanese humanoid robot HRP-4C:

That’s right, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, there were more babies born in 2007 than at any other time in US history. But before anyone starts predicting another massive “baby boom” wave, the experts are saying that

Doctors at Duke University Medical Center and Arkansas Children’s Hospital have seemingly cured some children of a severe peanut allergy by slowly feeding them tiny amounts of peanut flour. “”We’re optimistic that they have lost their peanut allergy,” said lead

And guess what? One of them happens to be the topic of the book I am currently writing.

“Here’s a switch: a new medical technology that can save money in health care, rather than add to costs. Tim Fischell, in fact, believes the medical device he co-invented to warn people of an impending heart attack, enabling them to

“Professor George Church and Dr Michael Jewett, of Harvard Medical School, told a synthetic biology conference in Hong Kong that they had synthetically created part of a cell, called a ribosome. The breakthrough offers hope that they could create an

From Fox News: “Brain scans showed that participants fell back on higher thought patterns when reacting to religious statements, whether trying to figure out God’s thoughts and emotions or thinking about metaphorical meaning behind religious teachings. That suggests that religion

Surgeons had to remove 6 organs just to get a cancerous tumor out of 7 year-old Heather McNamara’s abdomen. 3 of her 6 organs were found to have cancer, so they replaced her stomach with a pouch and she will