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In Augusta, Maine, an old paper mill that operated for more than a century will be turned into a new hotel and conference center. In Chicago, soil and ground water polluted with dry-cleaning solvents will be cleaned up to make room for a new library in a poor neighborhood. [More]

Apple's iTunes software has been heralded for the past decade as an example of an application that almost exemplifies what cloud computing is all about. With Monday's launch of iCloud services , Apple takes its digital music offering the rest of the way by allowing iPod, iPhone, iPad, Mac and PC users to store their tunes (and a lot of other content, for that matter) on the company's servers and access it via the Web. For those who want this option, iTunes will now be available online rather than as desktop software

Clockwise from top: Anthropologie Scrimshaw Knob $48, anthropologie.com Fusion Hardware Victorian Violet Knob $109, fusionhardware.com Out of the Blue Studio Green Spiral Knob $288, outofthebluedesignstudio.com Emtek Dog Knob $106, emtek.com Tracy Glover Prospect Hill Knob $160, tracygloverstudio.com Nostalgic Warehouse Newport Knob $150, nostalgicwarehouse.com Acorn Iron Art Knob $235, acornmfg.com Taamba K1 Knob $155, taamba.com This hardware begs to be touched beyond just opening your door. Constantly handled yet oft ignored, doorknobs spent decades in need of an upgrade, after a scarcity of brass during the Great Depression and World War II left the market full of bare, skeletal designs.

This year has been designated the International Year of Chemistry , so it is only fitting that two new members of the atomic family should be welcomed in during 2011. [More]

By Gerard Wynn BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Small island states, at risk from rising seas due to climate change, hinted on Tuesday at a compromise in order to kick-start U.N. talks on reaching a binding deal to curb global warming.

All things to nothingness descend, Grow old and die and meet their end... [More]

Tuesday, June 07 More than 30 years after Atari popularized the interchangeable game cartridge, gaming-software sales top $33 billion annually, with the global industry value greater than $100 billion. As players big and small convene at E3 in Los Angeles to catch a glimpse of gaming's future, we take a look back at the innovations that got us here.

When Omega Eggs (eggs containing Omega fatty acids) first appeared on the mass market in the early 2000s I had this bizarre image in my head of a semi-crazed scientist extracting the yolk with a giant syringe, swirling it about in a beaker with a neon blue solution to extract the bad fat, injecting it with Omega fatty acids and then placing it carefully back inside the eggshell.

As a psychologist, I have always found the concept of speed dating fascinating. In fact, some years ago, I decided to try it myself.

Every computer, modem, server and smartphone that connects to the Internet has a unique Internet protocol (IP) address, which enables users to find it. The address format, known as IPv4, was standardized in 1977 as a 32-digit binary number, making a then seemingly unlimited 4.3 billion addresses (232) available. Now they’re almost gone

The Oxford English Dictionary (hereon "OED", for simplicity’s sake) offers several alternative definitions for the term pride . Almost none of them are positive. For present purposes, let’s skip the more obscure leonine variant--and in fact, a "pride of lions " may actually have its etymological roots in the symbolic representation of this animal during the Middle Ages for the biblical sin--and instead turn our attention to the rather slippery semantic aspects, since there’s a lot encapsulated by this peculiarly bipolar word.

By Matt Kaplan of Nature magazine Archaeologists have long thought that Homo erectus, humanity's first ancestor to spread around the world, evolved in Africa before dispersing throughout Europe and Asia. [More]

The source of the deadly E. coli outbreak in Europe that has infected more than 2,100 and killed at least 22, is still a mystery.

By Priya Shetty of Nature magazine South African teenagers could pocket as much as 2,700 rand (US$400) over the next 18 months in exchange for staying HIV-free.

Stars of the sky, like stars of the silver screen, hide their age well.