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Marcia Angell, M.D., former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, looked at pharmaceutical companies’ profits in the Fortune 500 list of the world’s most profitable companies. She found that the top 10 pharmaceutical companies’ comb

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Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com

TenKsolar says it can increase the amount of solar power generated on rooftops by 25 to 50 percent, and reduce the overall cost of solar power by changing the way solar cells are wired together and adding inexpensive reflectors to gather more light.

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Kristina Grifantini via TechnologyReview.com

Imagine a swarm of microrobots—tiny devices a few hair widths across—swimming through your blood vessels and repairing damage, or zipping around in computer chips as a security lock, or quickly knitting together heart tissue.

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Melanoma is the fifth most common cancer in men and the seventh most common cancer in women. It is estimated that 68,130 people in the United States were diagnosed in 2010, and 8,700 died. With proper screening, melanoma can often be caught early eno

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With some genetic sleuthing, scientists have fingered a likely culprit in the spread of leprosy in the southern United States: the nine-banded armadillo. DNA tests show a match in the leprosy strain between some patients and these prehistoric-look

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The timing couldn't be worse, say SETI scientists. After millenniums of musings, this spring astronomers announced that 1,235 new possible planets had been observed by Kepler, a telescope on a space satellite. They predict that dozens of these plane

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Wes Siler via WIRED.com

They’re all perfectly capable of transforming electrons into motive power. And some, like Chip Yates’ 190.6-mph beast, are blindingly quick. But in their pursuit of powertrain innovation, the people building these machines have overlooked...

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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com

They explained bone fractures, didn’t ask cause of lacerations, and called the hallucinations routine. Medical professionals entrusted with the care of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay turned a blind eye when there were clear indications of abuse.

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It is no wonder we have such a positive association with sweets. They viscerally evoke memories of happiness and make us feel like good people. Each taste of sugar harkens back to feelings of love, approval, security and good times. We are Pavlovian

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Specifically, researchers recently sang the praises of potatoes with yellow flesh -- like Yukon Gold. In a small study of men, eating a cup of yellow potatoes every day for 6 weeks helped lower blood levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a compound that pr

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