Category: Tech

Inoculation innovation: Aerosol vaccines may replace needles

Start-up has developed a system that delivers a vaccine through an aerosol spray.

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What you don’t eat will heat your home

U.C. Davis is working on technology that turns leftover food bits into biogas, a combination of natural gas and CO2.

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Taking the bling out of your engine

Company producing platinum alloy that substitutes more effectively for expensive pure material used in catalytic converters to curb pollution.

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Job at PC plant may raise risk of cancer death

Rates for cancers of brain, central nervous system, kidneys relatively high, environmental health journal reports.

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Nielsen to start rating video games

New system will track frequently played games, demographics, related media trends among gamers.

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Home wind turbines turn fashionable in Britain

They’re showing up even in London, and their use has gained the accolade of a scare story in the tabloid press.

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Time capsule to be beamed from Mexican pyramid

Laser at center of former pre-Hispanic empire will beam information about life on Earth into outer space.

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Nielsen to track students away at school

Tracking viewers who are no longer living at home expected to boost ratings for shows aimed at 18-34 demographic.

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Teen repellant takes Ig Nobel Peace Prize

Insights into dung beetles, hiccups, woodpeckers and spaghetti also took honors at Harvard’s Nobel spoof.

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Survey: For big news, consumers bypass blogs

Most consumers still turn to traditional media to get their news during major events, new survey finds.

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Two U.S. scientists win Nobel for gene work

American scientists Andrew Fire and Craig Mello win Nobel for medicine for discovery of how to “silence” genes.

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Silicon vs. CIGS: With solar energy, the issue is material

What should solar panels be made of? Silicon has history on its side, but the future may lie in CIGS.

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Climate demands rapid energy conversion, experts say

Panel urges the quick adoption of energy technologies to forestall catastrophic climate change.

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High-tech fabric lights up the catwalk

A new collection of dresses features Philips’ “photonic” fabric that can display text, graphics, animation.

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