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Citing a weak economy and the "current uncertain status of U.S. climate policy," utility American Electric Power has decided not to proceed with plans to expand CO2 capture and storage technology (CCS) efforts at its Mountaineer power plant in West Virginia.
Read More »Amateur hour at British Open
Twenty-year-old Tom Lewis posted the lowest round ever by an amateur in golf's oldest major, pulling even with Thomas Bjorn at 5-under 65 to share the first-round lead at the British Open.
Read More »Romo, Smoltz among stars at Tahoe celebrity golf
A rivalry between quarterbacks and pitchers resumes at Lake Tahoe on Friday when Tony Romo, Aaron Rodgers, John Smoltz and Rick Rhoden are among those set to tee off in the 22nd American Century Celebrity Golf Championship.
Read More »Piece of Mind: Is the Internet Replacing Our Ability to Remember?
Has the Internet dumbed down society or simply become an external storage unit that enhances the human brain's memory capacity? With Google , Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia at our beck and call via smart phones, tablets and laptops, the once essential function of committing facts to memory has become little more than a flashback to flash cards. This shift is not necessarily a bad thing, nor is it irreversible, according to a team of researchers whose study on search engines and learning appears in the July 15 issue of Science
Read More »Secondhand smoke linked to kids’ learning disabilities, behavioral problems
Study finds children exposed to secondhand smoke in homes have 50 percent increased odds of having up to three common neurobehavioral disorders
Read More »Ketamine and Major Depressive Disorder: Is it Better with Special K?
Most people have heard of ketamine.
Read More »PGT: Glover, McDowell finish first round strong
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Read More »Microsoft Wants To Eliminate Buyer’s Remorse
Prodcast. That's the name of the tool Microsoft would love to get under the noses of as many tech-buying consumers as it possibly could.
Read More »Genetically Modified Salmon Will Kill Regular Salmon
Escaped GM salmon could breed and pass on their genes in the wild--and those genes could cause weak salmon that eventually die off. The GM salmon companies say they have a solution to keep their fish sterile, but remember: Nature finds a way
Read More »Doctors use Xbox in operating rooms: How?
Doctors at Toronto-based Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre use Xbox Kinnect to keep operating rooms sterile
Read More »The Civil War and Malaria
EDITOR’S NOTE: We now know that a single-celled sporozoan of the Plasmodium genus causes malaria. It was discovered to be a parasite in 1880, by Alphonse Laveran, a French army surgeon in Algeria, and its transmission by the mosquito was first demonstrated in 1897 by Ronald Ross, a British officer in the Indian Medical Service
Read More »Kids Say Where Tech Should Go
What's the future of technology? Who better to ask than today's kids? [More]
Read More »GolfChannel: Emotional Bjorn finds peace with 65
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Read More »13 bizarre but popular plastic surgery procedures
Tummy tucks and facelifts pale in comparison to these surprising surgeries patients request
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