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Joke van Bemmel (imagine how to say it with a Dutch accent - 'y' for 'j'), is a researcher from The Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam.

Facebook may be a fabulous way to get your casual game idea noticed, but there's a bigger, better Web outside Facebook's blue-painted cage--just ask FarmVille. Social2Web wants to help you take your game there. Think of Social2Web by Adknowledge as a kind of virtual scalpel, helping you surgically pluck your carefully crafted game from Facebook and transplant it elsewhere, presumably where it'll make you, not Mark Zuckerberg, more money.

It's Facebook's world.

As Libya's civil war continues to disrupt its contribution to the world's oil supply, the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) has taken action. The IEA, which counts the U.S

By Michael Avok OMAHA, Neb., June 28 (Reuters) - Missouri River floodwaters [More]

Harold Kroto won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, the soccer ball shaped form of carbon better known as buckyballs. On June 28, he spoke to students [at the Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting] about science as a philosophical construct: "I'm going to talk about what science is because it's a totally misunderstood sort of subject

By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Man's best friend bears a heavy burden in the pharmaceutical industry. [More]

By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine When stem-cell clinics are asked for documentation about the treatments they offer, some are quick to produce letters from lawyers instead. [More]

It's no secret that health care in the U.S.

For more than 100 years, National Geographic explorers have unraveled the mysteries of the past. Now it's your turn [More]

The uncontrolled 60,000-acre Las Conchas Fire in New Mexico, which began June 26 , is raging near Los Alamos National Laboratory, but the lab says that its nuclear materials are protected. [More]

By Ed Yong of Nature magazine The wrinkles that develop on wet fingers could be an adaptation to give us better grip in slippery conditions, the latest theory suggests. The hypothesis, from Mark Changizi, an evolutionary neurobiologist at 2AI Labs in Boise, Idaho, and his colleagues goes against the common belief that fingers turn prune-like simply because they absorb water. Changizi thinks that the wrinkles act like rain treads on tires

A new study by Google.org projects that breakthroughs in clean energy technologies stemming from aggressive federal and private-sector investment would add $150 billion in additional economic output and 1.1 million new jobs by 2030, with the gains continuing to grow in future years. The study, "The New Prize: Clean Energy Innovation," is based on McKinsey & Co.'s Low Carbon Economics computer modeling.

A new study by Google.org projects that breakthroughs in clean energy technologies stemming from aggressive federal and private-sector investment would add $150 billion in additional economic output and 1.1 million new jobs by 2030, with the gains continuing to grow in future years. The study, "The New Prize: Clean Energy Innovation," is based on McKinsey & Co.'s Low Carbon Economics computer modeling

NASA will send its final space shuttle into orbit this summer, when Atlantis lifts off from Kennedy Space Center for a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. The mission will garner much attention for what it represents -- the 135th and final flight of NASA's 30-year space shuttle program. But also important is the work that the four-member crew will be doing to ready the International Space Station for the post-shuttle-program era.