| Cancer vaccine shrinks tumors, healthy cells escape unscathed Using DNA extracted from healthy prostates, scientists have designed a vaccine that uses the immune system to attack cancerous cells, curing 80% of the test mice. Read the full story GE posts 2010 reductions in energy, emissions; misses on water General Electric releases its 2010 Ecomagination annual report, citing reductions in energy and emissions but missing on water conservation. Read the full story Japan system crowned supercomputer champ as petaflop age emerges For the first time, the top 10 supercomputers in the world operate at a petaflop scale as China continues to move up the high-performance computing charts to chase the U.S. Read the full story In sustainability, perception isn't always equal to reality New study from Brandlogic and CRD Analytics suggests than some companies get more credit than they deserve, including Apple and Google. Read the full story Video: Inventor builds homemade jetpack using cheap spare parts A scrappy inventor builds a low-tech water-powered jetpack. $99,500 price tag not included. Read the full story ITT offers fund to help airlines finance NextGen cockpit technology A partnership between ITT and Nexa Capital creates the NextGen Equipage Fund to aid airlines in avionics overhaul. Read the full story Potential cancer treatment method uses body's own know-how A novel approach uses one of the body's own processes to administer 40 times more of the drug to a tumor over previous nanoparticle treatments. Read the full story Honeywell, Safran eye green airplane taxiing Honeywell and Safran, a French aerospace company, said they will launch a joint venture to create an electric taxiing system for airplanes in a move that will save money, fuel and carbon emissions.The companies said the electric taxiing system will use an airplane's Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) generator to power motors in the main wheels without using primary engines while on the ground.... Read the full story Largest rare-earth metal mine in US back open for business For the past decade, 95% of the world's rare-metals -- needed for wind turbines, hybrid cars, computer batteries, medical imaging devices, and smartphones -- have been extracted in China. Now, another source has been re-activated. Read the full story Elevated radiation levels widespread in eastern Japan Local Japanese governments have found dangerously high radiation levels in pastoral grasses located over 100 miles from Fukushima. Scientists are independently monitoring background radiation throughout Japan. Read the full story Mouse library coming soon: Order any genetic mutant your study needs Our knowledge of diseases come from rodents specially engineered to lack certain genes. And there's a huge global effort to achieve the ability to knock out every single mouse gene imaginable. Read the full story The Matrix reality: Scientists successfully implant artificial memory system It seems the sci-fi industry has done it again. Predictions made in novels like Johnny Mnemonic and Neuromancer back in the 1980s of neural implants linking our brains to machines have become a reality.Back then it seemed unthinkable that we'd ever have megabytes stashed in our brain as Keanu Reeves' character Johnny Mnemonic did in the movie based on William Gibson's novel. Or that The... Read the full story Future of medical testing: Body sensors that use ultrawideband communication Researchers at Oregon State University discovered a technology that might help doctors know about the state of your health by continuously, monitoring your body. Read the full story Mobile commerce almost here, but don't get too excited yet: analysts Analysts have been predicting the imminent arrival of mobile commerce for more than a decade now. Another imminent-arrival prediction has just been issued, but with caveats. Read the full story Haptic tech: coming to cars, phones and even clothes A new generation of haptic feedback technology will allow us to "feel" goods in an online store and respond to alerts in our cars and on our tablet computers. Read the full story | 
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