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The US space agency Nasa has selected three projects as finalists for its next celestial mission. 

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Google has moved to head off some of the threat from young rivals such as Twitter and Facebook by announcing plans to prominently display results from social networking sites in its search pages.

Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? This video details out social media facts and figures that are hard to ignore.

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A team of South Korean scientists have produced the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel-based chemicals.

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Renewable energy firm Ocean Power Technologies has won a A$66.5 million ($61 million) grant from the Australian government for a project set to be one of the first to generate power from waves on a utility scale.

Universities have welcomed the opportunity to influence the Government’s priorities for research, science and technology by responding to a just-released feedback document.

Orthopedic gumboots, an elastic chair, a restaurant up a tree, a sheep drencher inspired by a beer bottle, the world’s safest trampoline and a coat stand shaped like a twig were among some of the most colourful high profile winners at the national 2009 BeST Design Awards – New Zealand design's equivalent to the Oscars.

Communications and Information Technology Minister Steven Joyce has released an 'Invitation to Participate' in the partner selection process for the government's $1.5 billion ultra-fast broadband investment initiative.

The influential American lobby group Consumer Electronics Assn. is fighting what appears to be a losing battle to dissuade California regulators from passing the nation's first ban on energy-hungry big-screen televisions.

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Researchers have demonstrated a penny-sized "nuclear battery" that produces energy from the decay of radioisotopes.