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Sandia's concentrating solar-thermal power team has been working closely with SES over the past five years to improve the system design and operation.

Investigators from Hospital for Special Surgery have shown that a biodegradable scaffold or plug can be used to treat patients with damaged knee cartilage.

In the past, bills have been introduced to prevent pedestrians from text messaging while crossing the street, though I am unaware of any that made it into law. Perhaps such a law would have saved this teen from a ton of embarrassment.

On Friday, July 10th, the iTunes App Store turned one year old. Yes, it was only shortly over a year ago that Apple launched the iPhone 3G, an SDK, and the App Store to hold the (currently more than 50,000 apps).

A team of researchers from the University of Huelva has developed an environmentally-friendly lubricating grease based on ricin oil and cellulose derivatives, according to the journal Green Chemistry .

A burrow photographed from above, showing a cross section, with the entrance on the left side and chamber on the right The world's oldest dinosaur burrows have been discovered in Australia.

When the iPhone 3GS was announced, AT&T was ridiculed by some because the wireless carrier in the U.S. for the iPhone would not be enabling either MMS or tethering, services that consumers have been waiting for since the first generation iPhone. Now a report by AppModo is stating that both services will be delayed, all the way to September.

A new survey by the Pew Research center focuses on science. While the survey says Americans like science, it also confirms, by asking scientists themselves, what we already knew: the Bush Administration suppressed any results scientific research which did not comform to its own narrow POV.

Every generation is presented with new technologies of which the previous generation would and, in all likelihood, could never have imagined.A With the realization of each new idea arrives a more efficient and easier method of performing a common task.A While the basic premise behind this process of simplification is good, for those who do not know ...

Want to find a reusable photo for a blog or web site post, but concerned (naturally) about possible licensing issues? While there are already some ways to search for such images and content, Google remains the first search engine of choice for most folks. On Thursday they added functionality to Image Search to help in these sorts of queries.

To be honest, I expect Microsoft to announce some sort of Family Pack for Windows 7, much as they did for Windows Vista. To this point, there's been no official announcement, but as retailers prep their sites for the October launch of WIndows 7, they have made a few mistakes.

"From the visionary creators of Office 2007 and 2003." Hilarious. This latest promo video for Microsoft's upcoming Office 2010 features the grave of Clippy, the annoyingly helpful Office Assistant that thankfully vanished with Office 2007.

Nokia has seemingly been the device manufacturer feeling most of the global pain from the iPhone, but a note issued on Wednesday by Piper Jaffray’s T. Michael Walkley notes that in June both Palm's Pre and the iPhone grabbed market share from BlackBerry as well.

One of the causes of erroneously sent emails is the human at the end of the Send button. This is why Gmail Labs' Undo Send feature is helpful. Of course, that's Gmail. What about the mistakes we humans make in the workplace?

You may have thought there was a smarter system in place by now. Not so, and it's actually easy to glean a social security number

Stirling Energy Systems and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility .

The SEC continues to investigate disclosures Apple made regarding Steve Jobs' health earlier this year, specifically how his condition escalated from relatively simple to a six-month leave of absence in a period of nine days, according to a Bloomberg report.

For many, Wednesday is known as "hump day," when people begin the downward slide toward (yea!) the weekend. New research shows that Wednesday is also the deadliest day of the week for suicides, however.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is likely downing a ton of aspirin this morning, as Google has announced that it is developing a PC operating system based on its Chrome browser. Unlike Microsoft's current OS (Vista) and upcoming one (7), it will be all shiny and new (like Chrome!), not full of legacy code.

As more and more Americans ditched their landline in exchange for cell phones only, AT&T is looking to keep people locked into landlines, using the same sort of methodology some seem to use to advance their political aspirations: fear.