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Video: Explore the sea floor with Google Earth

Go where no human has gone, to a place less well mapped than the moon: the ocean floor.  Read the full story

IBM researchers create the world's first graphene integrated circuit

If brought to market, the first graphene integrated circuit could improve cell phone communication as well as airport security.  Read the full story

Father of LEED: Humans 'blissfully unaware' of coming climate crisis

Rob Watson, founder of the USGBC's LEED rating system, says humans need to wake up and reduce their environmental impact -- or suffer the planet's consequences.  Read the full story

JouleX raises $17 million for enterprise energy management

JouleX raises $17 million from Intel Capital and others to expand its enterprise energy management systems in Asia and elsewhere.  Read the full story

Ford's powerful mini-motor saves fuel, cuts emissions

The Ford Ecoboost may be the company's smallest engine, but it packs performance muscle to go with top-of-the-line fuel economy and lower emissions.  Read the full story

Link between hormone level and IVF success?

In a new study, women with high levels of a particular hormone at the beginning of the in vitro fertilization cycle had greater success with the procedure.  Read the full story

Iceland employs Web to write new constitution: welcome to the 21st century

Iceland's new constitution is being written with citizen input via the Web, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.  Read the full story

GE's new SPECT scan promises lower radiation doses

The newly FDA-approved imaging system offers 50% lower doses than standard nuclear medicine scanners. The Army uses SPECT scans to look at blood flow in the brains of soldiers with blast injuries.  Read the full story

FDA recommends change in Zocor

According to a Wednesday announcement, the U.S Food and Drug Administration has recommended limiting higher doses of the cholesterol-lowering drug called simvastin (Zocor)  Read the full story

New system predicts most influential people on Twitter

Representative Anthony Weiner (D-New York) needs to know about rumor centrality. If he'd known about it, he would know that sending a photo of himself in his knickers via Twitter will result in a surge of retweeting.  Read the full story

Google Maps now has live transit updates

Google announces real-time public transport updates, and delay notifications for Google Maps and the Android.  Read the full story

A pill that primes the heart for attack?

Our stem-like cells that mature into heart tissue become inactivated as adults. But a protein that reactivates those cells could help us make new heart muscle after a heart attack.  Read the full story

Smart city formula: Equal parts vision, private-public cooperation and policy support

Smart city projects are gaining support outside the United States, but policy and the investment climate have made retrofit schemes more challenging.  Read the full story

Ford takes aim at Volt, to triple EV production by 2013

Ford said it will triple production capacity of electric vehicles by 2013 as it plans to roll out its C-MAX Hybrid and C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid in 2012.  Read the full story

Sustainability author lashes out at Dow for water abuse

Should companies with environmentally hazardous products use sustainability to promote their brands? Dow Chemical learned the hard way when author Anna Lappe lashed out about its poor track record on water.  Read the full story

How to fix steel's bad chemistry

Tata Steel and mining giant Rio Tinto team up to develop a process that cuts carbon-belching coke from the steel making formula. Will it help reduce the industry's huge greenhouse gas footprint?  Read the full story

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