A collaboration between scientists at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Francisco has led to the first direct information about the molecular structure of prions. In addition, the study has revealed surprisingly large structural differences between natural prions

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Carlo Ratti, from the SENSEable City Laboratory at MIT has initiated a project to track where trash goes when we throw it "away".

Located near the former city wall of Beijing, Steven Holl's "Linked Hybrid" complex is completely self-contained, and features one of the largest geothermal heating and cooling systems in the world.

LotusLive iNotes -- a Web version of IBM's Lotus Notes -- joins growing list of hosted e-mail apps.

Fairfax County, Va., wins top county portal award with a plain design.

Judges included representatives of state, local and educational government interests.

The car-sharing company, Zipcar, charges $7 to $12/hour, which includes gas and insurance.

Radiocommunication technologies, have done so much to connect people and assure the development of other sectors, from maritime and air transport to satellite systems.

New Federal Trade Commission guidelines say testimonials must reflect 'the honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experience' of the endorser

A Toronto startup is at the vanguard of a technology that allows users to work on a screen with more than just two fingers

Move will break Rogers' year-long stranglehold; telcos set to launch next-generation wireless network ahead of schedule

Recession blamed for first online ad slump since 2002 but industry perceives decline to be temporary

U.S. Federal Trade Commission to require blogs to disclose any freebies or payments

New app, unavailable in Canada, offer discounted international phone calls

CEO also says company is freezing R&D budget partly in order to preserve resources for fight with Google

If GeoCities -- once the most popular face of personal Websites -- can disappear, what about YouTube, Google Docs and Facebook?

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