As IBM predicts information-technology innovations, The Wall Street Journal offers Walt Mossberg’s best products of…
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Kindle Is Amazon’s Best-Seller Despite Tablet Rivals
For all the talk of tablet computers — in particular, the Apple iPad — eroding…
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Treating women’s depression might help them lose weight
For many women coping with obesity and depression, new research finds that improving your mood…
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Unlocking the secrets of a plant’s light sensitivity
Plants are very sensitive to light conditions, in part due to a signal that activates…
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Circulating tumor cells predicted recurrence, death in patients with early-stage breast cancer
The presence of one to four circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the blood of early-stage…
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Adapting agriculture to climate change: New global search to save endangered crop wild relatives
The Global Crop Diversity Trust has announced a major global search to systematically find, gather,…
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Protein targeted to stop melanoma tumor growth
Halting the growth of melanoma tumors by targeting the MIC-1 protein that promotes blood vessel…
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Learning to read the genome: Most detailed annotation of fruit-fly genome points way to understanding all organisms’ genomes
Scientists have recently made major advances in understanding the complex relationships between the Drosophila genome,…
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Momentum May Drive a Tech-Industry Recovery in 2011
It’s a thought-provoking headline, isn’t it? After some ups and downs in 2010 — welcome…
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After the iPad, What Tech Surprises Lay in Store for 2011?
What’s in store for technology in 2011? Plenty. While 2010 saw the unveiling of hot…