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Today is January 28, and Lenina has a smashing headache; she is a Streptococcus pneumoniae researcher. Not that this was the main reason for the headache, but an important meeting was being held today to launch the Pneumococcal Molecular Epidemiology Network’s [PMEN] new paper in Science . Oddly enough, her role at the meeting is to summarize the history of Streptococcus pneumoniae prior to her group’s latest bit of information

Like most of us, NASA astronauts have to wake up and get to work--even when they're in space. So NASA is running a contest to select two new wake-up songs for the STS-134 shuttle crew when it's at the International Space Station.

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Google Secretly Making Chrome for Tablets Stealth elements in Chrome's source code reveal new features that are unmistakably designed for a tablet. Google acknowledged, "We are engaging in early open-source work for the tablet form factor, but we have nothing new to announce at this time." Cocoon, A Worry-Free Browser Cocoon aims for private, malware-free browsing by routing all Internet activity through a separate server that scrubs viruses and tracking software before such data reaches the user

A science team has, for the first time, engaged a brain-reading electrode setup to allow a computer's cursor instructions to come from a living, thinking human brain.

If you’re serious about rescuing all your analog memories before it’s too late--before the recording media or playback devices fade away--one thing is for sure: the task ahead will be either time-consuming or expensive. In each case, you can either do the digitizing yourself, or you can send your recordings away to a company that does it for you. If you’re committed, though, it’s a very satisfying project.

Reppler's service is the virtual morning after pill to purge any and all inappropriate content that you or your friends posted on Facebook.

If the notion of next-generation electronic components made from actual human blood cells chills you, you may not want to read on.

Photograph by Robyn Twomey Photograph by Robyn Twomey Wikipedia director Sue Gardner has transformed the site's broken business into a growing hub with global ambitions.

Academic librarians, led by Harvard's, are positioning themselves as the successors to Google's scuttled vision for a massive digital library. But do they lack a coherent vision? Not long ago a federal judge in Manhattan scuttled Google 's plans to create a digital universal library (a dream kicked off when Larry Page scanned "The Google Book" years ago--his company has since scanned 15 million more).

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SACRAMENTO--It is one of the most poignant scenes ever captured in the human fossil record--a woman and two children buried together some 5,300 years ago on a bed of flowers, holding hands. They lived by the shores of a shallow freshwater lake in what is now Niger, at a time when the Sahara was green

Gary Player was already a major champion when he played the Masters in 1961. By the time the tournament ended, the South African had defeated Arnold Palmer and become the first international player to wear the green jacket

When CEO Bart Steiner and his team started their idea for an innovation community, the country was clearly in need of such a thing. Bulbstorm was started in 2008 under the premise that most people around world have great ideas and passion, but don’t posess all the skills they need to see their ideas through to completion

Ever want to be a model? Then you'll love this new Kinect hack that combines 3-D imaging and a RepRap machine to turn you into...a model! It's clever, and hints at two powerful futures for tech

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