DailySource: In Case You Missed It

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Scanning 2.4 billion eyes, India tries to connect poor to growth

Thu, 31 May 2012 03:00:00 -0400

Using the same powerful technology that transformed the country’s private economy, the Indian government is creating a vast identity database that it hopes will help relieve chronic inequality.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Survivor builds ‘cancer-fighting’ house

Wed, 30 May 2012 03:00:00 -0400

Charles Ruma, a cancer survivor, with the help of the Ohio State University Cancer Center, built “Home for Hope,” a “cancer-fighting” house, using materials that are free of carcinogens.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Family poodle credited with West Jordan, Utah, fire rescue

Tue, 29 May 2012 03:00:00 -0400

A mother and two children made it out of their burning Utah house before firefighters arrived, but her 19-year-old son was still inside. It was the family’s dog who led emergency responders to the man.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Back to school: Are we leaving gifted students behind?

Mon, 28 May 2012 03:00:00 -0400

Gifted students in U.S. public schools can be overlooked and unappreciated. Parents, looking for better options, have begun to find some.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Arctic: great riches, greater challenges

Sun, 27 May 2012 03:00:00 -0400

At the rim of the Arctic Circle in Canada, gold mining firm Agnico-Eagle is learning how tough it is to operate in a remote region with temptingly large, but inaccessible, oil, gas and mineral reserves.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: New method reveals parts of bacterial genome essential to life

Sat, 26 May 2012 03:00:00 -0400

A team at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California has cataloged, down to the letter, exactly what parts of the genetic code are essential for survival in one bacterial species.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Study: Some US firms paid more to CEOs than taxes

Fri, 25 May 2012 03:00:00 -0400

According to a study of companies’ payrolls, 25 of the 100 highest paid U.S. CEOs earned more last year than their companies paid in federal income tax.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Ammonia could be key to developing emissions-free fuel for cars

Thu, 24 May 2012 03:00:00 -0400

Ammonia could be the answer to developing an emissions-free fuel for cars. Ammonia produces just nitrogen and water vapor when burned and, unlike hydrogen, is easy to store in liquid form.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Physicists turn single atom into mirror

Wed, 23 May 2012 03:00:00 -0400

Physicists have fashioned a mirror from a single atom. The advance might lead to an atom-sized transistor for light.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Big city dreams

Tue, 22 May 2012 03:00:00 -0400

It is not every day that the mayor of New York City asks universities if they want cheap land to develop a new campus in one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country.