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Let’s say you are trying to sell cookies for a school fundraiser at the local mall, and you want to pick the ideal spot to set up your table. You’d probably look for an area with a lot of traffic.

One key aspect of creating smarter, more liveable cities is to create more complete streets that are friendlier to bikers. A pretty good indicator of how well cities are doing at this is how many people are willing to brave a commute on their bikes.

NEW YORK CITY--Who brewed--and then enjoyed--the first beer? The civilization responsible for the widely beloved beverage must have been a very old one, but we don't yet know who first brewed up a batch of beer, Christine Hastorf explained in a March 10 lecture at New York University on the archaeology of beer

"Green" computer code would be increase energy efficiency in the machines running such software. A computer scientist from Binghamton University has recently scored about a half million in funding--$450,000 from the National Science Foundation, and $50,000 from Google--that will help support his interested in "green" software development.

What do earmuffs, television, and ChatRoulette have in common? They were all dreamed up by teenagers -- the same age group Google is targeting with its first-ever science fair, an online smarts search.

Meet Air Force Major General Margaret Woodward , Joint Force Air Component Commander for Operation Odyssey Dawn. Woodward, the commander of the German-based 17th Air Force, is in charge of the U.S. airstrikes in Libya and the first woman in U.S.

The sex hormones that bathe a fetus in the womb are some of the earliest and most potent determinates of gender differences in brain structure and social behavior. But other chemicals produced by the human body more subtly tweak the neural pathways underlying these distinctions. Endocannabinoids, natural compounds in the brain that excite the same receptors as marijuana, influence gender-specific behaviors, according to a study published in November in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

The same company behind the popular Roomba robocleaner is producing an underwater robot that can stay below the surface for months.

Forget sending huge, expensive remote-controlled robot probes to Mars--could a swarm of smaller, cheaper units that roam the surface using honeybee-like thinking actually do the job better? Just last week, NASA's next Martian rover Curiosity got its first taste of Mars-like conditions inside a pressure and atmospheric chamber designed to simulate the kind of environment it'll encounter when it actually lands on Mars's regolith several years from now. It's a huge, complex process to get this huge (9-foot long, 2,000 pound), complex vehicle ready for its scientific mission

By Daniel Cressey Massive Amazonian characid fish may carry seeds more than five kilometers across forest flood plains, researchers say. Although fish have long been suspected of having an important role in seed distribution, proof of their ability to carry fertile seeds such distances has been lacking. Jill Anderson, an evolutionary ecologist at Duke University in North Carolina, and her team had previously discovered thousands of seeds in the guts of Colossoma macropomum fish in Peru's Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve

Photograph by Jason Grow/Wonderful Machine Timothy Gifford and Anjana Bhat Movia Robotics CEO and University of Connecticut Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Movia Robotics and UCONN Hartford and Storrs, Connecticut Movia Robotics CEO Gifford, 48, and Bhat, 34, an assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Connecticut, use robots to help autistic children develop social and physical skills.

A research group at the University of Illinois has developed technology that may have lasting implications for electric vehicles (EVs) and other electronics. The group, led by Paul Braun, a professor of material sciences and engineering, has come up with technology that creates a much more rapid charging time for lithium-ion batteries, which power electronics like cellphones, laptops and defibrillators.

Illustrations by Ron Kurniawan The Boy King: Larry Page served as CEO during Google's startup days. | Photograph by Paul Sakuma/AP How new CEO Larry Page will lead the company he co-founded into the future. Tarsorrhaphy.