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The entrepreneur turned VC warns that there is too much money chasing too few marketable ideas. The crash, he says, is coming next year.
Read More »Famine Receding in Somalia But War Blocks Aid
* Famine over in three out of six regions * A quarter of a million still face imminent starvation [More]
Read More »Neutrino Experiment Replicates Faster-Than-Light Finding
By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine Physicists have replicated the finding that the subatomic particles called neutrinos seem to travel faster than light. [More]
Read More »STD report shows chlamydia up, syphilis down
Nineteen million Americans have an STD, resulting in $17 billion in health care costs
Read More »New brain study to test 100 former NFL players
Researchers plan to test retired pro football players to try to learn how to diagnose degenerative brain disease
Read More »MIND Reviews: Train the Brain
Two books and a podcast series explore how we can improve our minds.
Read More »Smucker’s peanut butter recalled over salmonella fear
Thousands of jars purchased in last week may contain potentially dangerous bacteria
Read More »Video: New health care rules
Erica Hill and Jeff Glor speak with Carmen Wong Ulrich about new health care rules that will affect those who smoke or who are overweight.
Read More »Video: Ask It Early: Night sweats, eczema and holiday colds
Dr. Holly Phillips answers viewer questions on pressing health issues, from the reasons for night sweats, to natural remedies for eczema, and even how to stay healthy for the holidays.
Read More »Microwave Math That Einstein Would Have Loved
You can find a microwave oven in nearly any American kitchen--indeed, it is the one truly modern cooking tool that is commonly at hand--yet these versatile gadgets are woefully underestimated.
Read More »Late Bloomers: "New" Genes May Have Played a Role in Human Brain Evolution
Billions of years ago, organic chemicals in the primordial soup somehow organized themselves into the first organisms. A few years ago scientists found that something similar happens every once in awhile in the cells of all living things: bits of once-quiet stretches of
Read More »Next-Generation Flex-Fuel Cells Ready to Hit the Market
A fuel-cell power unit that can use natural gas, propane or diesel may in a couple of years provide on-site electricity to factories, computer-server farms and even your home.
Read More »Solyndra: Soft Markets and Chinese Subsidies
In September, headlines erupted when the solar company, Solyndra, announced that it would be filing for bankruptcy just 2 years after the company received $535 million in federal loan guarantees under the Recovery Act.
Read More »Product Spam Is Out Of Control And Must Be Stopped
We are living in a new age of austerity . Environmentalism is no longer just a crunchy cause, but also a corporate mandate .
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