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SmartPlanet stories related to the technologies, processes and policy encompassed by the production of food, as well as the businesses and organizations delivering it.
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French try improving entrepreneurship by drinking less wine
It's revolutionary. The Republic's old guard is fighting back.
3 | March 27, 2013 5:40am |
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Biofuel blues: Mascoma ends IPO plans
Just when it looked like the biofuels industry was starting to make some progress, one of its own has withdrawn its IPO due to difficult market conditions.
8 | March 25, 2013 3:24pm |
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We need to be smarter about managing water
As we mark World Water Day, it's time to get smarter about water usage.
Sponsored | March 22, 2013 8:05am |
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Do Google's playful perks spark creativity?
We've all heard about Google's famously fantastical offices, with free food and massages and colorful decor. Do such details play a role in innovation -- or are they more about fun?
March 18, 2013 7:16pm |
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Bloomberg's next ban? Cigarette displays in stores
Bloomberg has already banned smoking in most public places. But is he going too far in wanting to prohibit stores from displaying cigarettes?
1 | March 18, 2013 5:53pm |
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Brits turn to the pub as their second office
Why are Brits turning to the pub as a place to work?
1 | March 18, 2013 4:09am |
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Surgical robots: pricey and without clear benefits?
Multiple lawsuits and federal inquiry have cast a shadow over one of the fastest-growing medical technologies in the U.S.
March 15, 2013 10:04am |
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NYC subway rats soon to be a thing of the past?
In an effort to control the rat population lurking within New York City's subway, the city is turning to an unusual method -- sterilization.
March 13, 2013 9:39am |
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Facebook CEO to employees: Freeze and produce!
Mark Iceberg, er, Zuckerberg, keeps the office temperature at 15 degrees C. He likes alertness.
11 | March 13, 2013 4:14am |
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Perfectly detailed, perfectly gorgeous (and perfectly dull)
Museum architecture usually tends to be as conventional as the boards behind then, but at their best they allow for a global presentation of new and important talent.
1 | March 13, 2013 2:04am |
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Patient's skull replaced with 3D printed material
How's this for high-tech; 3D printing used to replace a man's fractured skull?
March 12, 2013 8:56am |
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America's surprising beverage of choice
The soda industry is slumping in the U.S., but will it find a home overseas?
12 | March 12, 2013 4:00am |
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It's a wrap: food packaging design goes high-tech
From software that can take a juice bottle from sketch to virtual store shelf in hours to innovations that make frozen dinners safer and more sustainable, food packaging design is entering a new era.
12 | March 12, 2013 3:00am |
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Silicon Valley: getting poorer?
The good fortune of Silicon Valley's technology entrepreneurs isn't advancing economic mobility within the community - the poor are getting poorer.
43 | March 11, 2013 11:28pm |
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Sensors are now tracking office productivity
How big data is trying to make offices more productive.
1 | March 11, 2013 12:38pm |
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Bee venom may halt the spread of HIV
Researchers hope to use the powerful toxin to develop an anti-HIV gel.
3 | March 11, 2013 4:27am |
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The Kumbh Mela: Inside the world's largest human gathering
ALLAHABAD, India -- Eighty million with boundless faith gathered around a mighty river for 55 days.
1 | March 11, 2013 12:00am |
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Laser technology can ID any meat type -- horse or otherwise
BERLIN -- With everyone up in arms about horse meat, why is this technology so far from being readily available in the market?
3 | March 7, 2013 3:00am |
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Internet searches lead to discoveries of drug side effects
Software that analyzed Internet searches was able to detect side effects caused by prescription drugs.
2 | March 6, 2013 7:35pm |
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The four challenges that stand between us and Mars
One of the proposed solutions involves using astronaut waste as a radiation shield.
5 | March 6, 2013 3:28pm |
