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Fuel efficiency tops wish list of new-car buyers

Fuel efficiency was the most important car-purchase factor for 37 percent of those surveyed in the new Consumer Reports National Research Center car-owner survey.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Next up: Smart homes

You've got a smartphone and maybe a smart TV, and may have heard that smart refrigerators are in the works. Next up: the smart home.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google provides temporary Cornell science campus

Google on Monday agreed to provide a temporary home to a high-tech science college run by Cornell University in New York City.

Technology / Business

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study shows that workplace inspections save lives, don't destroy jobs

Research to be published in Science on May 18, 2012, sheds light on a hot-button political issue: the role and effectiveness of government regulation. Does it kill jobs or protect the public?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New MacBook Pro Retina display will cost Apple, consumer too?

Apple Retina displays are reportedly already in the supply channel for the rumored redesigned MacBook Pros, but they are not going to come cheap.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Programs kept Wisconsin families from poverty, report finds

Temporary increases in safety net programs and tax credits for working families helped keep many in Wisconsin from poverty during the recession and its aftermath, a new report by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mechanical motion rectifier leads to better energy harvesting

(Phys.org) -- Mechanical energy is all around us, whether in the form of a vehicle's vibrations, ocean waves, or vibrating train tracks. However, much of this energy is irregular and oscillatory - for example, road bumps ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 26 | with audio podcast report

Avocado oil: The 'olive oil of the Americas'?

Atmospheric oxygen facilitated the evolution and complexity of terrestrial organisms, including human beings, because it allowed nutrients to be used more efficiently by those organisms, which in turn were able to generate ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

NDSU develops app to identify cost-effective heating fuel

Heating Fuel Comparison, a new mobile device application developed by the NDSU Extension Service, can help people determine the most cost-effective fuel source when selecting new heating appliances.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Policies, learning-by-doing played important role in reducing ethanol costs

A new study from the University of Illinois concludes that learning-by-doing, stimulated by increased ethanol production, played an important role in inducing technological progress in the corn ethanol industry. ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tackle fungal forces to save crops, forests and endangered animals, scientists say

More than 600 million people could be fed each year by halting the spread of fungal diseases in the world's five most important crops, according to research published today in the journal Nature.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Canadians rally against wind power

Hundreds of Canadians demonstrated on Tuesday calling for an end to subsidies for wind power, saying noise from colossal turbines is making some people sick and driving down rural property prices.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (9) | comments 32

Miner Xstrata wins Australia climate test case

Swiss mining giant Xstrata has won a test case against what is set to be Australia's largest open-cut coal mine, with a court ruling that the economic benefits outweighed its climate change impacts.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Calculating the cost of advanced manufacturing

For Tim Gutowski, advanced manufacturing is an opportunity not just to boost employment, but also to improve the environment.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

SRI International releases report on costs and benefits of online learning programs

A new SRI International report prepared for the U.S. Department of Education provides guidance to educational leaders as they work to implement successful, cost-effective online learning programs for secondary schools.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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