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When Google and Yahoo announced their advertising partnership back in June, the companies said they would give the Justice Department three and one half months to review it. Which is more than enough time for such a review according to Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt, who said the companies will proceed with the deal in [...]

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Whether Google has succeeded in revolutionizing the cell phone may depend on who you ask.

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Scanning DNA for structural changes brings new insight into disease.

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A new coal plant is the first to capture and store carbon dioxide.

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The production design is ready, but the electric vehicle’s battery needs work.

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The colossal squid is a cipher. Although scientists have known of it since 1925, its population and life cycle remain a mystery—no one has ever observed one in its natural habitat, 3,000 feet down.
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What is the Internet? Seems simple, but in truth that’s an increasingly loaded question; one that we can answer only by bringing our own cultural values and historical background to the table.
In short, as long as we’re working from the same baseline, we’re good. Add an alternate set of norms into the experience and [...]

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Advertisers are building complex applications to try to engage users on social networks.

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Embryonic stem cells, which can be coaxed to turn into any kind of cell type, have been hailed as a 21st-century panacea. But they are fraught with ethical problems because they come from embryos. Last November, two teams of scientists turned ordinary adult skin cells into pluripotent stem cells—capable of becoming any kind of tissue—a [...]

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Researchers find a new way to precisely target cancer drugs.

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