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Forget meadows. The city’s new park will be filled with edible plants, and everything from pears to herbs will be free for the taking.   Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of

‘I want to show you what it’s like to be there as best I can, even if that ends with me running full-speed into a cafe and rubbing lemons all over my face after being tear-gassed’ What is Google Glass good for, beyond showing off at technology conferences? Google’s augmented eyewear has plenty of sceptics, but here’s

Image via Wikipedia By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN I want to share a couple of articles I recently came across that, I believe, speak to the core of what ails America today but is too little discussed. The first was in Newsweek under the ironic headline “We’re No. 11!” The piece, by Michael Hirsh, went on to

“This is a game-changing idea in cybersecurity“   In the online struggle for network security, Kansas State University cybersecurity experts are adding an ally to the security force: the computer network itself. Scott DeLoach, professor of computing and information sciences, and Xinming “Simon” Ou, associate professor of computing and information sciences, are researching the feasibility

It sounds too good to be true, but a novel approach that might allow you to eat as much as you want without gaining weight could be a reality in the near future. When a single gene known as RCAN1 was removed in mice and they were fed, they failed to gain weight, even after

“There is no cure for it, and current therapies such as hearing aids don’t provide relief for many patients” An epilepsy drug shows promise in an animal model at preventing tinnitus from developing after exposure to loud noise, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The findings,

Revolutionary LED Street Lights Leverage Innovative Technologies Cree announces a breakthrough innovation in street lighting with the introduction of the XSP Series LED Street Light — the most affordable and efficient Cree® LED street light designed to speed payback to municipalities. Using nearly 50 percent less energy and designed to last over three times longer

A thin layer of graphene paint can make impermeable and chemically resistant coatings which could be used for packaging to keep food fresh for longer and protect metal structures against corrosion, new findings from The University of Manchester show. The surface of graphene, a one atom thick sheet of carbon, can be randomly decorated with

SMARTPHONE-CONTROLLED DESIGN PRECISELY DELIVERS MEDICATION Researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Harvard Medical School and MIT have designed a smart bandage that could eventually heal chronic wounds or battlefield injuries with every fiber of its being. Advanced Functional Materials The bandage consists of electrically conductive fibers coated in a gel that can be individually loaded