Health
iRegulate: Should Medical Apps Face Government Oversight?
With medical applications for smart phones becoming a more prominent part of doctors' diagnostic tool kits, the FDA is considering how it should regulate the market--if at all
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Environment
Humboldt Squid Seem to Be Thriving--Thanks to Ocean Dead Zones
Human-size jumbo squid are growing thick along the U.S. west coast. Is climate change aiding their expansion?
The Sciences
Competing Catastrophes: What's the Bigger Menace, an Asteroid Impact or Climate Change?
The authors of a recent report concerning a near-Earth asteroid impact and our preparedness disagreed on whether it was reasonable and prudent to compare NEO fatalities with those from climate change...
Environment
What the Frack? Natural Gas from Subterranean Shale Promises U.S. Energy Independence--With Environmental Costs [Slide Show]
Natural gas cracked out of shale deposits may mean the U.S. has a stable supply for a century--but at what cost to the environment and human health?
The Sciences
Thinking Outside of the Toy Box: 4 Children's Gizmos That Inspired Scientific Breakthroughs [Slide Show]
Brilliant minds reach back to childhood to help them develop tiny transistors, study particle separation, make microfluidics devices, and fight cancer
Environment
Salt 'n Power: A First Look at the Lithium Flats of Bolivia [Slide Show]
The lithium needed for the batteries that power everything from our laptops to future electric cars may come more than ever from South America's vast salt flats
Technology
Going with the Flow: Hydrokinetic Power Developers Face Technical and Regulatory Hurdles in Bid to Tap Tides
Several organizations are hard at work developing and testing tidal-harnessing technology as a source of green energy
Space & Physics
6 Fun Facts about the James Webb Space Telescope [Slide Show]
The mammoth infrared observatory, scheduled to launch in 2014, will look back to the first stars in the universe
Technology
TB or Not TB?: Novel Detector Could Shorten Testing Times, Aid Treatment Efforts
Colorado State University researchers have developed a device for use in the field that can identify both active tuberculosis infection and dormant microbes, which could flare up into full-blown illness*...
Technology
Magic Fingers: Digging Into Multi-Touch Technology with Both Hands
Perceptive Pixel chief scientist Jefferson Han has big plans for changing how people use computers
Technology
Want TV in 3-D? Then You'll Still Have to Wear Silly Glasses--At Least for Another Decade
As major TV manufacturers prepare to role out stereoscopic 3-D displays that require glasses, researchers are experimenting with ways of delivering 3-D to the naked eye
Technology
Sound Idea: Acoustic Technology Lets Small Planes "Listen" for Nearby Aircraft
A novel acoustic system could enable small aircraft, which often go unnoticed by one another, avoid midair collisions
Biology
Impact Factor: Can a Scientific Retraction Change Public Opinion?
A month after the keystone paper proposing a link between a common childhood vaccine series and autism was retracted, the debate rages on
Environment
50 Years Ago: The Reclamation of a Man-Made Desert
Israel is restoring to cultivation a land damaged by a millennium of abuse. The achievement is an example to a world that must face the task of increasing food supplies to feed a rising population...
Environment
Energizing Energy: How the Stimulus Bill Has Ignited Innovation in the Renewables Sector--A Q&A
Matt Rogers of the Department of Energy discusses how $36.7 billion from the Recovery Act is helping to define the future of green power--and the agency itself
