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Instead of investing billions in massive nuclear power plants, some power companies are developing smaller units, small enough to put on a truck and drive to where power is needed. There are obviously some concerns.

LightSquared, a 4G satellite internet provider backed by an eccentric billionaire, could change the nature of broadband Internet in the United States. The only problem is that their network could just make GPS receivers go blank

The AARP is known for the following: retirement benefits, travel discounts, and commercials of old people smiling, frowning, or falling down. But last month, the nonprofit organization for those 50 and older launched a new service that takes advantage of a massive untapped market in the digital music industry: baby boomers

The trial of the 25-year-old just cleared of murder charges was this generation's OJ drama. Only this time, the regular market of questionably tasteless T-shirts and tchotchkes was flooded with apps, tweets, streams, and SMS alert services

A look at the companies that provided the finishers medals, recycling bins, timing, and heat-reflective blankets to the 14th annual Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati Finishers' Medals Each of the 30,000 runners who took part in the 14th annual Flying Pig Marathon and accompanying relay, half-marathon, 10K, and 5K races received a 3-ounce medallion featuring a grinning pig with wings. CEO Sharon Janis-Rochford co-founded Maxwell Medals & Awards of Traverse City, Michigan, in 1975

A plan to plant flowers to clean up radiation in Japan isn't as crazy as it sounds. A young Japanese entrepreneur is trying to convince people to sow sunflower seeds in Fukushima Prefecture, intending the plants to cleanse the soil of radioactive contamination.

Known for her blunt leadership style, Bartz also makes a deep impression online, according to digital footprint tracker PeekYou. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has huge digital feet

(PhysOrg.com) -- In yet another stab at trying to prove the existence of dark matter, Dan Hooper and colleagues have published a paper on arXiv describing what they believe to be credible evidence of the material believed to comprise most of the mass in the Universe. They say, according to a recent BBC post, that it could be that electrons are created when high energy dark matter particles crash into one another, giving rise to the synchrotron radiation that has thus far puzzled scientists here on Earth.

Twenty-five years after the tragedy at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine, tons of concrete shield workers and visitors from the puddle of dangerously radioactive melted fuel that lurks in the basement. In contrast, more than 30 years after the accident at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pa., the next-door twin of the partially melted-down reactor is still in operation and surrounded by homes.

U.S. nukes are safe! As they can be...

AOL is flexing yet another of its gooey tentacles to get a grip on a market: It's partnering with Slacker Radio for streaming Net radio. Pandora

Do "likes" and retweets add up to sales? Who knows

Dear EarthTalk: Radioactive rain recently fell in Massachusetts, likely due to Japan’s nuclear mess. Given the threats of radiation, wouldn’t it be madness now to continue with nuclear power? How can President Obama include nukes as part of a “clean energy” agenda

Dear EarthTalk: Radioactive rain recently fell in Massachusetts, likely due to Japan’s nuclear mess. Given the threats of radiation, wouldn’t it be madness now to continue with nuclear power