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...first thing Jose Halloy wants you to know is that he will not help you get rid of the cockroaches in your apartment. It's true that he and his colleagues at the Free University of Brussels and several other European institutions have created a set of tiny robotic Pied Pipers that can trick roaches into following them - even to places where a sensible roach would never venture. But the research they've just described in Science has to do not with extermination strategy but with understanding how roaches make decisions. "When you observe cockroaches," says Halloy, "you see that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robotic Roaches Do the Trick | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...here's the real shocker: Huffman taps into his new fast pipe through a wall socket--any old socket in the house will do. "Now if I could just figure out a way to get rid of all these pop-up ads," he says, settling down to clean the spam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Competition: Power Play | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...animal health, Gerber, the eye-care unit CIBA Vision and over-the-counter medicines--in the hands of trusted lieutenants. Novartis announced earlier this year that it will divest the unit that makes foods such as Ovaltine. Some analysts say Novartis could pick up its growth if it got rid of more of its noncore businesses. But Vasella argues there's no reason for Novartis to do so until the price is right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drug Lord | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...there are not a lot of minerals like that,” he said. “You can just do the opposite. Instead of adding a base, remove acid.” However, even if the researchers’ proposals were to be implemented, it would only rid the atmosphere of about one-seventh of its carbon, according to the researchers. “This cannot solve the whole problem. It’s not like we can go out and start buying Hummers,” said study co-author and materials science professor Michael J. Aziz. Rather...

Author: By Benjamin M. Jaffe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Global Warming Targeted | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...signs of a bullet behind the head exiting through the forehead," it said. The Mungiki (meaning multitude in the Kikuyu language) draw their inspiration from the Mau Mau guerrillas who rose against British colonial rule in the 1950s. They began in the 1980s as a quasi-religious movement to rid Kenya of cultural imperialism and return the country to its African traditions. Followers were believed to face Mount Kenya to pray and many grew their hair into dreadlocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya Accused of Mass Killings | 11/6/2007 | See Source »

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