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After Roger Ebert lost the ability to speak in 2006 due to a post-cancer surgery tracheostomy, the film critic has communicated via Post-It notes, an eloquent and hilarious array of hand gestures, and his Mac laptop synthesizer. The version that read out pre-typed introductions at his annual film festival in 2009 had an upper-class English accent the British might call "emollient." Ebert and his wife Chaz called it "Sir Laurence" and shortly thereafter replaced it with a more accessible American–accented voice called "Alex." By next year, Ebert may sound even more like himself, courtesy of personalized voice work being carried out by the Edinburgh-based company CereProc (short for cerebral processing and pronounced "serra-prock").

People can change -- but how? This is the central concern of “Redirect,” a new book by Timothy D

* Businesses, schools and most banks closed * Monsoon rains forecast to extend into Wednesday [More]

* Businesses, schools and most banks closed * Monsoon rains forecast to extend into Wednesday [More]

Devastating fires that swept through eastern Texas this month have left dozens of people dead or missing and destroyed more than 1,500 homes.

MALTA--Efforts to create a universal flu vaccine, one that would do away with the annual reformulations, is a hot topic these days in the infectious disease community.

Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn by Cathy N. Davidson

Urban life can be trying--cars and buses honk, passersby jostle, concrete and brick win out over grass and trees. Researchers have known for decades that residents of densely populated areas have higher rates of mental illnesses, including anxiety disorders and schizophrenia

By Ron Cowen of Nature magazine Physicists last week announced evidence that particles of dark matter--the invisible, hypothetical material believed to make up more than 80 percent of the mass of the Universe--may have a lower mass than suspected.

By Ron Cowen of Nature magazine Physicists last week announced evidence that particles of dark matter--the invisible, hypothetical material believed to make up more than 80 percent of the mass of the Universe--may have a lower mass than suspected. [More]

Entrepreneur (and former Facebook employee) Dave Morin did. Here's why.

By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazine A desert may need no defining, but desertification is not so easy to pin down. [More]

Diabetes affects more than one in 10 Americans, with the numbers projected to keep climbing. The chronic disease can mean frequent needle jabs to test blood sugar levels--and costly treatments

Here's the short answer: buy one! There are lots of entrepreneurs out there (maybe you!) who have a great business plan that happens to have either an e-business part to it or all of it would be an e-business. Having the business acumen to come up with a rock-solid plan, dazzle investors, and maintain the determination to launch it are one thing. Having the tech chops to launch the online presence necessary (a website, a mobile website, an auction storefront on eBAy, etc.) is another set of, well, chops.

By Nicola Jones of Nature magazine Endangered seals in a marine protected area are heading towards local extinction, even while the same species thrives in an unprotected area nearby. [More]