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Inside Diskeeper 2011 with IntelliWrite
When data fragmentation starts to affect your data storage, it can be hard for computers to figure out what's going on. Read this white paper to learn how you can improve system efficiency and...
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From biofuels to green chemicals (images)
A number of biotech start-ups are targeting industrial chemicals and other high-margin additives first on their way to making petroleum fuel replacements.
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The real value in the Wakefield autism study
Only one in five of the chemicals we use every day have ever been tested to see whether they are impacting the future health of kids before they're born.
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Environmental drug abuse
We're drugging our environment and other creatures who live in it. A recent study of rivers containing "treated" wastewater found fish swimming around with human drugs and scent compounds in...
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Rethinking explosives to power tools, implode tumors, and clear arteries
For most, explosive detonations illicit visions of building demolition and Mythbusters-style car bombs. But in a keynote at ETech today, Dr. Christa Hockensmith from the Energetic Materials...
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Biotech for food, fuel
At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., J. Craig Venter says going from food to fuel--corn to ethanol--is taking resources in the wrong direction. He discusses oil palm and the...
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How pot may win the war against super-bacteria
Pot may be our best weapon in the fight against bacterial infection. Yes, spleef, mary jane, reefer, wacky tobacky, the stuff that made Cheech & Chong famous. It could save your life.
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Small differences can make a BIG difference
I recently got a chance to talk with one VC firm that's focused some of its attention and money on cleantech. One of their investments is in OPX, which seems to have a unique approach to solving...
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Cancer--censored, delayed, none of your business
Of course our government cannot really tell us the truth about things like "weapons of mass destruction," or the true costs of various wars and occupations, or the size of the CIA's budget,...
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Greenpeace hands game industry low score
In its "Guide to Greener Electronics," the environmental group finds that game console makers have a long way to go.
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Let's play spin the bottle
Everybody gets to put their spin on the safety or danger of the plastic bottles that line our shelves, fill our landfills and litter our lives. Just today the "New York Times" style section has a...
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Can chemicals in iPhone headphone cable ruin your sex life?
According to "independent laboratory" tests cited on Greenpeace's International's website this morning,about half of 18 tested internal and external components of the iPhone contain bromated...
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Can we grow drugs?
Drugs are produced in laboratories, in factories. Can they be produced in greenhouses instead?
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Opryland ain't jest countree, it's GREEN country
Down Nashville way the Gaylord Corporation is trying to live with fewer toxic chemicals. They cook 1.5 million meals a year, maintain over two thousand guest rooms and nien acres ofindoor...
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Is that compostable or recyclable?
At AlwaysOn Going Green conference in Davis tonight, that was the clarion call from environmental architect, William McDonough. He and a chemist wrote the book Cradle to Cradle. McDonough is...
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'Nitro' targeted malware attacks hit chemical companies
Symantec has traced the attacks back to a 20-something male located in the Hebei region in China.
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From biofuels to green chemicals (images)
A number of biotech start-ups are targeting industrial chemicals and other high-margin additives first on their way to making petroleum fuel replacements.
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Green chemical company touts hydrogen-driven mobile charger
New York-based SiGNa Chemistry is developing rechargeable cartridges that could provide an alternative wireless charging strategy for mobile electronics. The cartridge, called mobile-H2, contains...
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The real value in the Wakefield autism study
Only one in five of the chemicals we use every day have ever been tested to see whether they are impacting the future health of kids before they're born.
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Star Wars laser successfully destroys ballistic missile
At 8:44 p.m. (PST), February 11, 2010, a short-range threat-representative ballistic missile was launched from an at-sea mobile launch platform. Within seconds, the ALTB used onboard sensors to...
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Chemical detection? There's an app for that
NASA has developed an app (and corresponding hardware) that can detect low concentrations of airborne ammonia, chlorine gas and methane in the air.
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