Sri Lanka's elephant population remains healthy despite decades of fighting between government and rebel forces, the first survey since the end of the nation's bloody civil war showed Friday.

Biology - Ecology

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(AP) -- In a dramatic reversal, President Barack Obama on Friday scrubbed a clean-air regulation that aimed to reduce health-threatening smog, yielding to bitterly protesting businesses and congressional ...

Space & Earth - Environment

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(AP) -- Michael Arrington, founder of popular tech blog TechCrunch, is starting a venture capital firm with an initial $20 million to invest in the same kinds of startups that TechCrunch often covers.

Technology - Business

Sep 02, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

A catastrophic infestation of the goldspotted oak borer, which has killed more than 80,000 oak trees in San Diego County in the last decade, might be contained by controlling the movement of oak firewood from that region, ...

Biology - Ecology

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Researchers at Northwestern University have created a new kind of cloaking material that can render objects invisible in the terahertz range.

Physics - General Physics

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Taking land-use models out of the lab for a test drive with the people who live the models gives scientists a new way to develop possible future scenarios.

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 02, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 1

New research from the University of California, Davis, and the University of Colorado at Boulder puts an unexpected twist on how mitochondria, the energy-generating structures within cells, divide. The work, ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Sep 02, 2011 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

Ten years after 9/11, researchers at Purdue University are continuing work that could lead to safer steel structures such as buildings and bridges and also an emerging type of nuclear power plant design.

Technology - Engineering

Sep 02, 2011 5 / 5 (4) 15 |

The days of waiting in line to pay for merchandise may be coming to an end.

Technology - Business

Sep 02, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

The earth rippled and squirmed on this Delta island Monday. It did not yawn open, but did reignite a debate about the seismic safety of levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Sep 02, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 1

With 3-D TV sales not meeting their grandest expectations, set makers have decided it's better to stand together, then fall apart. They're now rallying behind a standard for 3-D active shutter glasses, though the fruits of ...

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Sep 02, 2011 not rated yet 1

Electronics manufacturers have had a tough time competing against Apple's iPad.

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Sep 02, 2011 2.2 / 5 (6) 10

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will launch the world's first SDHC memory card with embedded wireless LAN functionality to meet the SD Memory Card Standard. The new card, "FlashAir", has an 8GB ...

Electronics - Hardware

Sep 02, 2011 4.5 / 5 (2) 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though it seems like science fiction, microscopic "factories" in which nanomachines produce tiny structures for miniaturized components or nanorobots that destroy tumor cells within the body ...

Chemistry - Polymers

Sep 02, 2011 4.9 / 5 (7) 0 |

A Hong Kong theme park has dropped a contentious plan to buy and import rare wild-caught beluga whales, in a decision lauded Friday by conservationists who had protested against the bid.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 02, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0