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The Wisconsin Industrial Energy Group and the Citizens Utility Board are suing the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin for allowing Wisconsin Power & Light Co. of Madison to build a 200-megawatt wind farm in south central Minnesota.

Rio National Insurance Group has opened a regional service office in Lee's Summit and hopes to hire as many as 100 people in the next five years.

Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. said it expects to initiate its previously announced tender offer for all the outstanding publicly held common units of OSG America LP in September. (OSG) (OSP)

If you find yourself in a crowded building during an emergency, perhaps the last thing you want to see is an obstructed exit. But a new study by a group of Japanese researchers shows that wide-open exits are not always the most efficient at speeding pedestrians through. A judiciously placed obstacle, such as a column, can actually reduce bottlenecking and evacuation times. [More]

A group of private equity firms and venture capitalists is reportedly making a bid to buy Skype from eBay Inc. (EBAY)

Health care lobbyists, industry groups and labor leaders continue to vie for influence as Washington braces for the health reform debate to return to town next month.

National Geographic's Human Family Tree is a 90 minute special (2 hours with commercials) on the current results of the ongoing Genographic Project, airing on the National Geographic Channel this Sunday, August 30, 2009. The program is a fascinating presentation of what the studies of modern people's DNA has told us about the ancient migration patterns of our ancestors. National Geographic's Human Family Tree. Photo by National Geographic (c) 2009 The Genographic Project is a five-year-long (2005-2010) study funded by National Geographic and IBM to collect human DNA from people all over the world, and analyze those data to determine the various general pathways humans took out of Africa. Human beings evolved in Africa about 160,000 years ago, and lived only in Africa until around 60,000 years ago when we started to emigrate, in little groups, in different directions. There is evidence of a couple of false starts before that—Skhul Cave in Israel and Jwalapuram in India

A collaborative of area physician groups is beginning to implement a $1 million grant to bring together more than 400 doctors through an electronic health record (EHR) system.

[NEWS] U.S. researchers using CRi's Oosight™ imaging system have developed a gene transfer technique that has potential to prevent inherited diseases passed on from mothers to their children through mutated DNA in cell mitochondria. The research, which demonstrated the technique in rhesus monkeys, appears in the Aug. 26 issue of the journal Nature.   The group, headed by Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov of the Oregon National Primate Research Center and the Oregon Stem Cell Center, e…

A group of researchers from the Fat Institute (CSIC) and the University of Seville have confirmed that some wild plants have a high nutritional value. The scientists have found that several species of lupines from the mountains of Andalusia have a protein content similar to that of other cultivated legumes, as they publish in the online version of the Food Chemistry magazine.