| First transfusion of lab-grown human blood succeeds For the first time, scientists have grown human blood in the lab and then successfully transfused it into a volunteer. Read the full story Computer predicts heart attacks before they happen Using digital models based on cheap, noninvasive CT scans, doctors can peer inside their patients' hearts to see what they'll look like in the future. No surgeries! Read the full story In crumbling infrastructure, real business costs Communities across the U.S. are incurring business costs due to failing infrastructure such as bridges, roads and tunnels. Can the private sector pitch in to save the local economy? Read the full story Instant-on computers a little closer to reality A new breakthrough in the lab could hasten the development of computers that power on instantly, making the phrase "waiting for my computer to boot up" a thing of the past. Read the full story What price, innovation? New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is courting major research universities to create an East Coast version of Silicon Valley. Can it be done without funding? Read the full story Can Ikea paper pallets stand up to wood? The Swedish furniture company hopes to save on transportation and reduce its environmental impact by substituting corrugated card for wood in its shipping pallets. Read the full story Amazing spray coating can make an iPhone waterproof [video] With Neverwet's coating, chocolate syrup slides off a clean shoe and an iPhone still works while submerged underwater. Read the full story Space, solar power's next frontier? A consortium of the world's leading space scientists believe that it is possible for the world to begin to meet its energy demands over the next 30 years by placing solar collectors in orbit. Read the full story How China is taking over Italy Rome installs an unelected technocratic government to pull the country back from financial ruin. With global economic pressures mounting, will other democracies give way and mimic Beijing? Read the full story 'Battery-powered building' runs on equivalent of 1.1 million AA batteries To go off-grid, the University of California Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering installed a 1.1 megawatt bank of lithium-ion batteries. Read the full story Toyota Prius concept bike can read your mind Toyota's concept bike, the PXP, brings together the design elements we know and love from the Prius hybrid in a bicycle - oh, and it can also read your mind. Read the full story In Hong Kong, appointments only for iPhone 4S HONG KONG -- On its first frenetic day of iPhone 4S sales, Apple puts an end to its monster line by requiring online appointments Read the full story Better Place raises $200 million; EV infrastructure in Europe Electric vehicle infrastructure provider Better Place raised $200 million in a round of financing, helping it fund further expansion in Western Europe. Read the full story Architect Edward Mazria awarded for greener building efforts Veteran architect Edward Mazria is pushing younger designers to integrate carbon-neutral building operation into their work through Architecture 2030. Read the full story Chicago funeral home design lets the light in Funeral homes tend to be so...funereal. But clad in glass and Jerusalem stone, the new, airy home of Chicago Jewish Funerals breaks the funeral home mold. Read the full story Cute video of kids DIYing their own penny battery A field trip to The Exploratorium turns into a little film project for a Silicon Valley investor's kids. They recorded the battery experiment with an iPad, edited the footage in iMovie, and published it to YouTube. Read the full story World's most efficient solar cell beams fluorescent light Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists designed a solar cell that emits more light than it traps. That unconventional approach helped them create the world's most efficient solar cell. Read the full story Analytics gap: information 'haves' outpace information 'have-nots,' study finds New IBM-MIT study finds companies with advanced analytic capabilities accelerating ahead of their analytically challenged peers. Read the full story Occupy DC's thriving mini city [video] Occupy DC protesters turned a sleepy park into a lively replica city. Find out how good design made it possible. Read the full story | 
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