(AP) -- As many as one in 10 Americans can't get Internet connections that are fast enough for common tasks such as viewing photos, video and Web pages, and two thirds of schools have broadband connections that are too slow ...
Telecom
Feb 17, 2011
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Flying insects' altitude control mechanisms are the focus of research being conducted in a Caltech laboratory under an Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant that may lead to technology that controls altitude in a ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 6, 2010
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President Barack Obama's administration said Tuesday it will install solar panels on the White House in a bid to encourage Americans in lesser known residences to embrace renewable energy.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 5, 2010
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Japan is planning subsidies to boost corporate investment in factories making environment-friendly products, in a fresh economic stimulus package expected next month, a report said Friday.
Business
Aug 20, 2010
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The US administration unveiled plans Wednesday to spend 1.2 billion dollars to expand broadband or high-speed Internet access to dozens of under-served rural communities.
Telecom
Aug 4, 2010
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Plans for a massive expansion of clean energy in California are being jeopardized by federal foot-dragging, according to state officials who say that more than 20 nearly shovel-ready solar and wind projects are being held ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 28, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Japan are developing a new touch screen system, the HIRO III, that incorporates a robot hand that could offer a new way of simulating the touching of virtual objects and receiving feedback ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- A squat, circular robot scurries along the floor of a laboratory, moving left, then right, then left again, before coming to a stop. A Northeastern University student researcher commands the gadget through ...
Engineering
Jun 1, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new University of Michigan study suggests that provisions in a federal economic stimulus plan falls short of fully bringing vulnerable unemployed workers into the unemployment insurance program.
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2010
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(AP) -- The sweeping national broadband plan that federal regulators delivered to Congress last week doesn't go far enough to satisfy some experts who warn that the United States would still trail other industrialized nations ...
Telecom
Mar 22, 2010
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