By integrating spider DNA into the genome of an insect already geared up for industrial silk production, a spider silk industry might finally become possible.READ»
Forget Motorola, HTC's cementing its position as the hot Android smartphone maker to watch: It's just revealed new phones and HTCSense.com, which is a cloud-based rival to Apple's iOS-MobileMe ecosystem.READ»
A British beekeeper has developed a strain of bee that is resistant to a pest that has been killing off the insect world's bees over the past 18 years. The varroa mite, which is thought to be one of the main causes of Colony Collapse ...READ»
Miriam Goldstein's team has been towing nets across the ocean to collect and analyze the tiny bits of plastic accumulating in the great pacific garbage patch. She said the plastic is impacting ocean ecosystems.READ»
Can we save the oceans with strategic dieting? Conservationists in Palm Beach think so -- they're encouraging locals to chomp down on an invasive species of lionfish.READ»
At long last, Microsoft has announced that Blue Line Innovations' PowerCost Monitor will the first partner device for Hohm, a web-based energy-monitoring application that offers in-depth personal consumption data. Hohm already ...READ»
NASA's revealed a study detailing the location and extent of the world's oceanic dead zones--regions where oxygen depletion stifles life. It looks like they're growing. First up: What is a dead zone (apart from a creepy movie starring ...READ»
The viral pictures of the whale breaching onto a yacht took me back to a pivotal moment in a long-distance sailing race years ago. In yacht racing, we plan our race and race our plan ... usually. Sometimes, however, fine plans must be cast aside under the pressure of crushing reality.READ»
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, or DECE, is a consortium backed by a whopping 58 high-tech and content providing companies, including Warner Brothers, Paramount, NBC Universal, and Lionsgate on the content side, and ...READ»
I've spent the last week reading Herman Melville's "Moby Dick." And like all great literature, what you see in it reflects who you are when you read it: it wasn't hard for me to see a cautionary tale about sustainability.READ»
Should we be rewarded for shooting ourselves in the foot and then backtracking? Apparently so, at least when it comes to carbon credits. Sea otters, a species that almost went extinct due to fur hunting in the 18th and 19th ...READ»
Borders just joined the ranks of bricks-and-mortar bookstores embracing the brave new world of e-publishing by launching its own digital bookstore and e-reader apps. It's late to the game, but not too late, and it's a sure sign of the ...READ»
Dr. Love is far from the only researcher enamored of oxytocin these days. In fact, the hormone has stimulated all kinds of research. Here's a sample of recent work.READ»
Japan is so desperate to preserve its whaling industry that the country has resorted to bribing small nations with cash and prostitutes, according to a recent investigation from The Sunday Times of London. Undercover reporters from ...READ»
Bees are the buzzing guardians of the food chain--without them, some of our favorite fruits and vegetables (strawberries, almonds, watermelon, and cucumbers, to name a few) would never get pollinated. That realization--along with a ...READ»
After you put your book down and turned out the light last night, innovation was cramming hard for its exams today--and finding the time to score a goal from an impossible angle.1. San Francisco is the first city in the U.S. to pass a ...READ»
