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Kepler project scientists join forces with a crowdsourcing research website and quickly bag two new exoplanets. First proteins, now planets. Regular people with regular jobs are getting a chance to chip away at scientific puzzles and contribute to discoveries, in what's turning out to be a big help for scientists, and an intriguing distraction for science geeks outside of academia.

Climate Wizard lets you see the various climate predictions for where you live. They're not pretty. If you're curious about what 16 reputable climate models say about the future of your corner of the planet, check out the Climate Wizard , a site that lets you use model simulations individually or as an "'ensemble average" to show how future temperatures and precipitation may change around the world as greenhouse gas concentrations continue to increase

By taking lists of potential side effects out of the hands of the drug makers, the startup is letting people know what their pills might be doing to them in a more open way than big pharmaceutical companies ever have. Last week during a Republican debate, as you may have heard, Michele Bachmann claimed that the HPV vaccine Gardasil can cause mental retardation. Prozac and other antidepressants are often linked to suicide .

It's not just the so-called "Post-PC" era that is kicking the backsides of Microsoft, HP, and Dell; it's the dramatic shift in the server market too. While Microsoft continues to dominate the enterprise server market with 71 percent of new sales worldwide (according to second-quarter figures for 2011), the Web server market is a different story.

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The little black boxes in airplanes provide useful information after a crash has taken place. Now researchers have devised a way to use black box info from planes that do not crash--to help prevent accidents from ever happening. Some airlines already use a program that checks 88 flight parameters in the black box.

Gov. Rick Snyder plans to direct doctors in Michigan to begin monitoring the body weight of their young patients and provide the data to a new state registry, in one of the most extensive government efforts to address the growing problem of pediatric obesity, the Associated Press has learned.

Once relegated to the domain of only large companies, business intelligence software is getting easier to implement by small and medium businesses that want to better analyze their data. People have been looking at data to bolster business since the beginning of, well, business. Go way, way back and a Roman sandal-clad street merchant 2,000 years ago might have noticed over time that he gets about a dozen more customers buying his wares on the days when he puts a canopy over his wagon as a shield from the hot midday sun.

How can Obama have the biggest impact when he speaks to Congress about job creation Thursday evening? It’s hard to overestimate the delicacy of the challenge President Obama faces in his speech Thursday night to a joint session of Congress

Deciding how to divide sales territories create the most efficient environment for your sales team is more difficult than just drawing lines on a map. When you're looking at the map and figuring out how to split up sales territories, how do you decide which salesperson to send to drive all up and down North Dakota and which one gets to just walk a few blocks around downtown Manhattan

The QR code is an acquired taste. But just as the tech is primed to be overtaken, America is going nuts for all things QR.

Responding to criticisms that its ratings can be meaningless and easily gamed, the USGBC is introducing new rules so buildings must continually recertify and measure their energy use against their neighbors.

Businesses in the sharing economy have drawn public scrutiny, if not ire, of late.

This week news broke that an exploit had been published that affected the Apache Web server. You probably glanced past the item in the usual flow of tech news, perhaps swamped by Apple news, and didn't think anything of it. But if anything the exploit is bigger news than most other items because this Apache vulnerability has a wicked sting in its tail: It's simple, it's easy to weaponize, and it could shut down about 60% of websites online.

It doesn’t take much imagination to think of ways in which all of the data being recorded into electronic health records (EHRs) could be used study diseases and map trends. [More]