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Patenting melon juice? Not if India gets its way...

Fed up with foreign companies patenting traditional medicine from India, the country's top scientific body is compiling a giant database of everything from yoga positions to medicinal fruit juice.

Technology / Business

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0




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Google searches get smarter (Update)

Google on Wednesday began making its search engine smarter, in what the Internet giant called a major upgrade that looks beyond query words to figure out what people are actually seeking online.

Technology / Internet

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 8

Harnessing natural light, indoors

(Phys.org) -- Using the most recent generation windows, architects and lighting designers can to control daylight, directing it where they want within a room. An EPFL laboratory has developed a simulation ...

Technology / Software

created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hackers for hire put corporate security systems to the test

Most weekdays, Jarrad Sims and Tin Tam, a pair of college buddies, ride their bikes to a computer center and try to hack into computer security systems belonging to Boeing Co.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Paint and bombs try to save ships from Titanic fate

We've painted them, tagged them, bombed them, monitored them with radar and watched them from space -- but icebergs like the one that sank the Titanic are still a threat to ships today.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research provides clear answer to debate on dinosaur posture

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research published today (22nd February) provides, for the first time, a clear answer to the debate as to whether Triceratops and other extinct creatures took on a more mammal-like or more ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (18) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Matching fans to music tops record industry agenda

After a decade-long battle against file-sharing, music and technology giants are now pushing users to share to their hearts' content, with online music recommendations a key issue at the MIDEM trade fair that ...

Technology / Other

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Global experts question claims about jellyfish populations

Blooms, or proliferation, of jellyfish have shown a substantial, visible impact on coastal populations – clogged nets for fishermen, stinging waters for tourists, even choked intake lines for power plants ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

EU urges balance between Internet freedom and copyright

Governments must strike a balance between policing the Internet to protect copyright and upholding freedom of expression, EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding said on Sunday.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Genetic analysis shows tortoise species thought to be extinct for 150 years still lives

Dozens of giant tortoises of a species believed extinct for 150 years may still be living at a remote location in the Galapagos Islands, a genetic analysis conducted by Yale University researchers reveals.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Robots get social network of their very own (no kidding)

(PhysOrg.com) -- This will for some robot-alarmists seem like the last straw. For robot enthusiasts though it will seem more like refreshing innovation. A technology site says it is time to see robots expressing ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report


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