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Google's Android OS has made great strides in seizing marketshare among smartphones, but the fragmentation of devices has finally caught Google's attention--for its Honeycomb tablet OS, hardware specs will be much tighter.

It’s been nearly 20 years since astronomers first identified a planet outside our solar system. More than 500 exoplanets have been discovered since then, yet it’s not clear if even one of them might be habitable

The truth about "hypallergenic" pets is a bit more complicated than you might imagine

Chris Wragge speaks with Dr.

Very small radiation traces have been found in a sample of milk from the U.S. Jeff Glor reports.

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The Food and Drug Administration is reconsidering the impact of food dyes and its possible link to worsening ADHD in children. Dr.

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At six hospitals in Alabama, an avoidable bacterial infection got into the bloodstream of 19 patients, possibly causing the death of nine. Mark Strassmann reports on the state's new outbreak of so-called "superbugs."

On the 30th anniversary of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, Bill Plante profiles 70-year-old Jim Brady, a man whose life was never the same after that day.

Some 3.2 million Americans have chronic hepatitis C , an infection that can linger in the body for years before producing symptoms. It can eventually lead to serious liver scarring and cancer. And most infections in the U.S

Graphic artist Isao Hashimoto depicts the startling number of nuclear bombs that have gone off between 1945 and 1998, from the early U.S. [More]

BlackBerry maker RIM just revealed it's signed up to license the patent portfolio of Nathan Myhrvold's IP firm Intellectual Ventures. This will give the company access to a lot of innovative thinking and 30,000 patents. Intellectual Ventures was founded in 2000 as a kind of innovation, invention, and IP asset library or archive, but unlike a "dead" patent hoarder, IV actually raises money (more than $5 billion so far from Fortune 500 companies and academic institutions) to action some of its ideas--most recently we saw the firm associated with a novel nuclear reactor design that could have prevented the disaster that's befalling Japan

A new coating for concrete structures could result in seriously tough structures that better resist damage and thus saves money in reconstruction and repair. Better yet, the coating relies on waste ash from burning coal in power stations.