Aug 19 2008
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the human visual system processes sound and helps us see.
Aug 19 2008
Sea air in coastal cities, renowned for being bracing and healthy, is instead being heavily polluted by dirty smoke from ships a study has found.
Aug 18 2008
Let’s get small! Rapid advances in the exciting field of nanotechnology are allowing us to shrink everyday objects to previously-unimaginably small dimensions. When objects and distances fall in the range of 1 to 100 nanometers (a nanometer is a...
Aug 18 2008
Republican presidential candidate John McCain cites three absurd-sounding examples of pork-barrel spending in a recent ad: a
Aug 17 2008
Speaking to a group of evangelical Christians, Sen. Barack Obama said Saturday that his greatest moral failure — and the country’s — has been selfishness, but his opponent, Sen. John McCain, cited his failed first marriage.
Aug 16 2008
Do you wish your computer was faster? Engineers and physicists from Germany have demonstrated the quickest prototype yet of an advanced form of RAM tipped by hardware manufacturers to be the future of computing.
Aug 16 2008
I don’t know about you but I’ve been spending a lot of time enjoying the Michael Phelps Show, er, Summer Olympics this week.
Aug 15 2008
Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, the pastor that presided over Jenna Bush’s wedding ceremony and is considered a close personal friend of President Bush, absolutely ripped into John McCain today on a conference call with reporters. Rev.
Aug 15 2008
Support is building for a measure that would make companies get consumers’ approval before collecting info about their Web surfing
Aug 14 2008
This might be Barack Obama’s best ad yet — it manages to make a coherent case against Bush-McCain economics and for Barack Obama’s plan to end the war in Iraq and put middle-class families first, all in thirty seconds.