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By Roberta Kwok of Nature magazine Researchers have equipped yeast cells with semi-synthetic chromosomes. [More]

Erly is founded by Hulu’s former technical and product leads. Collections is one of three applications the team plans to launch in the coming months

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Become part of a social-networking effort to understand and fight viral threats [More]

Dear EarthTalk : Are as many cats and dogs being euthanized these days as back in the 1970s and 1980s when indiscriminate breeding led to explosions in pet populations? -- Mary H., Knoxville, Tenn. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the leading non-profit devoted to animal welfare, reports that in the 1970s American shelters euthanized between 12 and 20 million cats and dogs every year at a time when there were 67 million pets in U.S

By Ed Yong of Nature magazine The iconic Nile crocodile actually comprises two different species -- and they are only distantly related.

Every day just became your own personal film festival. Launching today, Prescreen is calling itself a "social movie discovery platform" that's designed to "give filmmakers and distributors an alternative to traditional advertising and distribution channels." That is, it's a web interface wrapped in a social network to a curated catalog of films that may otherwise have had difficulty finding a distribution deal.

Text by Jeanne Garbarino, animation and images by Perrin Ireland.

It’s becoming common practice among small businesses to have employees spread out all over the country and even all over the globe. How do you establish a company culture when employees are not working together in the same office everyday?

September 1961 Nerve Cells Talking [More]

Inventors are coming up with many advertising novelties: small mechanical toys made by various companies to advertise some kind of product or service. [More]

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.

AT&T is making it drop-dead easy for developers to use the company's internal infrastructure to build mobile apps--including some that could be used by customers of other carriers or networks. Here's why. Amazon Web Services was a game-changer for application developers.

Quick update on the Bastrop, TX fires. [More]

Some people may be protected from the hearing loss that often accompanies aging: yes, musicians. Scientists gave hearing tests to 74 musicians and 89 non-musicians