Some of the biggest players in the technology industry complain that the U.S. patent system is broken -- bogged down in lawsuits and and recognizing too many inventions of dubious merit. So an experimental program is using the Internet to give the public -- including inventors -- more of a voice in the process. full story
World's biggest physics experiment Physicists hope the Large Hadron Collider will probe some of life's greatest mysteries, such as how the universe formed
'It's Facebook for spies'
CIA, FBI embrace secret Web site U.S. intelligence agencies are encouraging staffers to use a new social-networking site designed for the secret world of spying
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