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Last Wednesday, an unmanned craft was launched by Russia to bring dirt from the Martian moon Phobos. It failed in its mission, however, when it got stuck in the... Read More »

Two 50 megawatt and waste-fueled power plants are being built in Bangladesh by the Italian firm Management Environment Finance SEL. After 3 years and $900 million... Read More »

Ixmyelocel-T cell therapy proved safe in a mid-stage clinical trial by Aastrom BioSciences, according to data presented today at the annual meeting of the American... Read More »

Amgen is seeking to revolutionize LDL cholesterol treatment by blocking a protein called PCSK9. Early trials indicate the AMG145 treatment was able to reduce LDL... Read More »

The FDA has confirmed that trials for Pfizer's Prevnar 13 vaccine show that the drug safely protects adults over the age of 50 from pneumococcal infections... Read More »

The International Academy of Astronautics says orbital power plants that can collect solar energy and beam it to Earth are "technically feasible" in a... Read More »

Huawei is bolstering its cloud computing capabilities with Symantec's security and storage technology. Symantec has lost over $123 million for its share of the... Read More »

Intel is partnering with the World Bank to invest in technology firms in developing countries. Intel Capital, the investment fund for chipmaker Intel, is focusing on... Read More »

  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook is finalizing a settlement with federal regulators over changes to its privacy policies enacted two years ago, the Wall... Read More »

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's Suning Appliance Co Ltd, the country's biggest electronics retailer has signed an agreement with IBM to build a multi-billion... Read More »

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists are cooking up new ways of satisfying the world's ever-growing hunger for meat... Read More »

  (Reuters) - U.S. drug regulators have for the first time approved a therapy that uses cells of human blood from the placenta and the umbilical cord to... Read More »

    TAIPEI (Reuters) - Google Inc will continue to offer support to firms using its Android system that are involved in legal disputes, its... Read More »

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AT&T Inc complained on Wednesday that the Justice Department was too slow in telling who its witnesses would be as the... Read More »

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - An experimental drug that chokes off the blood supply to fat cells helped obese monkeys slim down, a sign that it may work in people... Read More »

  SEATTLE (Reuters) - The transformation of Seattle's South Lake Union district stands as a metaphor for this city's emergence as what some would... Read More »

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's first planned interplanetary mission in more than two decades went wrong on Wednesday when a $163 million unmanned spacecraft failed... Read More »

(Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc is halting development of its popular Flash Player for use in mobile browsers, essentially admitting defeat to rival Apple Inc in a... Read More »

  Pfizer Inc recently announced the results for the efficacy of the drug Toviaz that has been under study. The study (Study A0221048) was conducted to test... Read More »

  CAIRO (Reuters)- After the rice harvest each autumn, Egyptians take a deep breath and brace for the "black cloud," a thick layer of smog from... Read More »