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1st place winner: Portrait of a green lacewing larva (20X) by the inimitable Igor Siwanowicz While science journalists’ attention remains focused on the Nobel prizes, another set of awards- rather diminutive in scope- were also released this morning. [More]
Read More »Is Alzheimer’s contagious? What new study says
Preliminary study suggests that Alzheimer's can spread from person to person much like "mad cow" disease spreads
Read More »Cybermapping Africa’s Strangest Conflict
The Lord's Resistance Army has been waging a brutal war in Uganda for more than 20 years, with hardly a mention in the media. A new piece of software--based on Salesforce--is now tracking the atrocities.
Read More »The iPhone’s Face Recognition Will Change Social Media, Gaming, Online Privacy, Your Life
First there were rumors based on some patent applications and thus it seemed Apple was going to use face recognition tech from its acquisition of Polar Rose in future iPhones. Then hackers digging through the code inside a beta test version of iOS5 found hooks that confirmed face recognition was going to be a big part of it
Read More »Vitamin D study suggests that pale people need supplements
Researchers tested vitamin D levels in 1,200 people people and found 730 of them had below-normal levels
Read More »Nobel Dreams: 2011 Physics Prize Honors Accelerating Universe
A few years ago, soon after moving to Los Angeles, an old grad school buddy of the Time Lord came to town, Brian Schmidt, and we took him to a nearby tapas eatery for nibbles and pisco sours. I remember they were shooting a scene from a Will Smith movie that night, so nearby storefronts were riddled with fake bullet holes, and the odd fake gunfire and explosion interrupted our conversation.
Read More »List of Nuclear Isotope Discoveries Shows U.S. Contributions in Decline
By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine When it comes to discovering nuclear isotopes, retired physicist Gottfried M
Read More »Small Canada Province Flexes Green Energy Muscle
By Nicole Mordant (Reuters) - Nova Scotia is a small, picturesque province on Canada's Atlantic Coast but its appetite for green energy is big and aggressive as it moves to wean itself away from coal, and wins plaudits for its efforts.
Read More »Canada May Miss Modest New Climate Targets
* Says Canada wasting billions on climate change plan * Says Canada might not meet 2020 emissions cuts goal [More]
Read More »The newest Nobel Laureate is also a musician!
Saul Perlmutter is one of three scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics this morning . This news is exciting enough, but Perlmutter is no ordinary Nobel Laureate
Read More »Welcome To Apple Day, Microsoft Buries Zune, New Hope For Californian Rare Earths?, HTC To Issue Security Patch
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Apple To Make News Today . The Internet is gearing up for today's 1 PM EST Cupertino show, where Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to get on stage and trot out some new hardware--and maybe
Read More »Cheating men more likely to suffer penile fractures
Study of 16 injured men who needed surgery found most were cheaters
Read More »History and the Decline of Human Violence
Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, is the author of the best-selling books, “How the Mind Works,” and “The Blank Slate.” But he is also a public intellectual, devoted to bringing the ideas of academia to questions of broad public interest. His latest work is an ambitious attempt to understand the origins, history--and perhaps the future--of human violence.
Read More »Why Aren’t There More Female Entrepreneurs?
I’m often asked the question about why there aren’t more women who are entrepreneurs.
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