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Science

Study: Drivers More Distracted by Cell Phones than by Passengers

Study: Drivers More Distracted by Cell Phones than by Passengers

Researchers have longtime warned about the effects of cell phones on driving performance, whether...
» read full story December 02nd, 2008 - 14:27
Astronomers Take First Photos Of Planets Outside Solar System

Astronomers Take First Photos Of Planets Outside Solar System

The first photos of planets outside our Solar System have been taken by two teams of astronomers...
» read full story November 16th, 2008 - 17:23
NASA's Hubble Telescope Brings New Exciting Results

NASA's Hubble Telescope Brings New Exciting Results

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture images of a planet that orbits a star. Pictures of...
» read full story November 16th, 2008 - 15:45

Phoenix Mars Lander Declared Officially Dead; Mission Found Ice on Mars

Washington - After months of dust storms and severe cold, NASA's Phoenix Mars lander was declared...
» read full story November 11th, 2008 - 09:38
Heavy Rainfall Might Explain High Rates Of Autism

Heavy Rainfall Might Explain High Rates Of Autism

Children living in regions with higher levels of annual rainfall may be more predisposed to...
» read full story November 05th, 2008 - 11:38
Khirbat en-Nahas Copper Mines Offer Evidence of Historical King Solomon

Khirbat en-Nahas Copper Mines Offer Evidence of Historical King Solomon

An entire branch of Archaeology, that of religious archaeology, is dedicated to the confirmation...
» read full story October 28th, 2008 - 15:31
Archaeologists May Have Stumbled Upon King Solomon’s Legendary Mines

Archaeologists May Have Stumbled Upon King Solomon’s Legendary Mines

For decades, archaeologists and biblical interpreters have been on a constant quest to find the...
» read full story October 28th, 2008 - 13:19
Scientists Obtain X-ray pictures Out Of Peeling Scotch Tape

Scientists Obtain X-ray pictures Out Of Peeling Scotch Tape

Sticky tapes are always useful to have, but did you know they do more than just … stick?...
» read full story October 24th, 2008 - 14:03
Internet genome scans are both popular and controversial in US

Internet genome scans are both popular and controversial in US

Washington - Some people who want their genome scanned are only worried about what their hair will...
» read full story October 20th, 2008 - 07:44
Old Experiment Concerning Life Origins Rekindled

Old Experiment Concerning Life Origins Rekindled

Recently, two hundred vials of chemicals that were used in a 1950s experiment concerning the...
» read full story October 17th, 2008 - 18:57
Web Searches Improve Brain Activity

Web Searches Improve Brain Activity

A team of researchers at the University of California Los Angeles have recently revealed...
» read full story October 17th, 2008 - 16:51
EWG: Bottled Water Filled With Cancer-Linked Contaminants

EWG: Bottled Water Filled With Cancer-Linked Contaminants

When we buy bottled water, we genuinely believe that it is safe to drink, but things are not like...
» read full story October 16th, 2008 - 14:29
Internet: A Stimulus That Keeps The Aging Brain Active

Internet: A Stimulus That Keeps The Aging Brain Active

The Internet is undeniably part of our lives, but did you know that its usefulness extends beyond...
» read full story October 15th, 2008 - 14:00
The Elderly Should Be Encouraged To Surf The Web

The Elderly Should Be Encouraged To Surf The Web

A study which is due to appear in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry shows that surfing...
» read full story October 15th, 2008 - 11:43
Three Chemists Win Nobel Prize For Bioluminescent Cells

Three Chemists Win Nobel Prize For Bioluminescent Cells

The Nobel Prize for chemistry is shared this year by three US-based scientists, one of them...
» read full story October 09th, 2008 - 12:33

Martin Chalfie, Roger Tsien - US scientists

Washington - Martin Chalfie, a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University in New York,...
» read full story October 08th, 2008 - 21:45

2008 Nobel Prize In Chemistry, Also With Three Winners

The Nobel Prize is a foundation that celebrates discoveries and excellence in a number of fields,...
» read full story October 08th, 2008 - 20:18
Ig Nobel Prize Winners Know How To Make Potato Chips Sound Fresher

Ig Nobel Prize Winners Know How To Make Potato Chips Sound Fresher

Each year, around the time when the Nobel Prize recipients are announced, the Ig Nobel Prize...
» read full story October 03rd, 2008 - 15:00
HIV Origins Traced Around 1900, Much Earlier Than Believed

HIV Origins Traced Around 1900, Much Earlier Than Believed

AIDS first came to public notice in 1981 when US doctors noted an unusual cluster of deaths among...
» read full story October 03rd, 2008 - 08:34
Seven Miles Separate Mars Rover Opportunity From Its Next Target

Seven Miles Separate Mars Rover Opportunity From Its Next Target

As it entered its fifth year of Mars exploration, NASA’s Opportunity Mars continued to perform...
» read full story September 23rd, 2008 - 14:00
New Theory: Pure Luck Propelled Dinosaurs As Rulers Of The Earth

New Theory: Pure Luck Propelled Dinosaurs As Rulers Of The Earth

Over 200 million years ago, the dinosaurs ruled the Earth. This is an undeniable fact, however,...
» read full story September 12th, 2008 - 14:30
Virtual Telescope Takes Closer Look At Milky Way's Central Black Hole

Virtual Telescope Takes Closer Look At Milky Way's Central Black Hole

Astronomers at the MIT Haystack Observatory, in collaboration with a team of international...
» read full story September 04th, 2008 - 15:37
NYC Nuclear Plant Likely To Create An Earthquake Hazard

NYC Nuclear Plant Likely To Create An Earthquake Hazard

A recent tectonic study on the New York City – Philadelphia area revealed that there is much more...
» read full story August 23rd, 2008 - 14:00

Update 2: Bigfoot Was Just A Hoax, A Rubber Costume

After igniting heavy debates, the discovery of the Bigfoot has proved to be just a hoax, as many...
» read full story August 20th, 2008 - 10:06
Scentists Are Closer Than Ever To Invisibility

Scentists Are Closer Than Ever To Invisibility

The scientists at the University of California, Berkeley are extremely close to a major scientific...
» read full story August 12th, 2008 - 15:37
Invisibility Is No Longer A Fairy Tale

Invisibility Is No Longer A Fairy Tale

Many of you have probably read The Invisible Man written by H.G. Wells more than one hundred years...
» read full story August 11th, 2008 - 16:50
NASA’s Phoenix Lander Carries On With Martian Soil Analysis

NASA’s Phoenix Lander Carries On With Martian Soil Analysis

The past week has been very intense for NASA scientists, as they have been working on...
» read full story August 11th, 2008 - 16:19
Update 1: Bending Light Or How To Become The Invisible Man

Update 1: Bending Light Or How To Become The Invisible Man

We’ve all read or seen fiction stories about the invisible man, usually the result of an...
» read full story August 11th, 2008 - 13:31
Study: Girls Match Boys in No Child Left Behind Math Tests

Study: Girls Match Boys in No Child Left Behind Math Tests

A study by five women researchers has concluded that nowadays girls are as good as boys in No Child...
» read full story July 25th, 2008 - 21:03
Scientists Solve Mystery Behind Aurora Borealis Spectacle Of Light

Scientists Solve Mystery Behind Aurora Borealis Spectacle Of Light

The enigmatic aurora borealis has kept scientists on a constant quest to understand the...
» read full story July 25th, 2008 - 13:56
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World

US In Year-Long Recession, Top Economic Arbiter Declares

Washington - The United States has been in a recession since December 2007, the country's official...
» read full story December 02nd, 2008 - 12:42
Three Researchers Win Nobel Prize For Bioluminescent Cells

Three Researchers Win Nobel Prize For Bioluminescent Cells

The Nobel Prize for chemistry is shared this year by three US-based scientists, one of them...
» read full story October 10th, 2008 - 08:47

Samba for Obama echoes fundraising rhythm

San Francisco - The wine was flowing, the band was blaring, and on the dance floor a Brazilian lady...
» read full story October 09th, 2008 - 08:19
The Bigfoot Hunters Lost Their Credit?

The Bigfoot Hunters Lost Their Credit?

They who called themselves "Bigfoot hunters" claimed they had found the dead body of the...
» read full story August 16th, 2008 - 17:35

Authorities Investigate the Latest Attacks on California Researchers

The police and federal authorities are investigating two bombings that targeted two scientists at...
» read full story August 04th, 2008 - 14:16
Girls Are Just As Good As Boys At Math, Study Says

Girls Are Just As Good As Boys At Math, Study Says

Is there a real difference between the intellectual abilities of girls and boys at Math? For many...
» read full story July 26th, 2008 - 08:10
Michael Savage Continues Autism Discussion, Maintaining His Point of View

Michael Savage Continues Autism Discussion, Maintaining His Point of View

When you have the opportunity to inform people on certain subjects, the worst thing to do is to...
» read full story July 22nd, 2008 - 11:57
F.B.I. Arrests Hundreds in Child Prostitution Raids

F.B.I. Arrests Hundreds in Child Prostitution Raids

The F.B.I. led a five day operation meant to discover child prostitution networks and managed to...
» read full story June 26th, 2008 - 11:15

California: UC’s Sports Training Center on Hold

It appears that the UC-Berkeley's student athlete high performance center will be built, after...
» read full story June 19th, 2008 - 13:44
MySpace Suicide Case in Federal Court

MySpace Suicide Case in Federal Court

A Missouri woman indicted in a MySpace hoax which led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide is scheduled...
» read full story June 16th, 2008 - 17:50
American Wine Pioneer Died At Age 94

American Wine Pioneer Died At Age 94

The man responsable for popularizing the concept of quality American wine died Friday at the age of...
» read full story May 17th, 2008 - 13:12
Coyote Dragged 2-Year-Old Girl From Yard

Coyote Dragged 2-Year-Old Girl From Yard

A coyote grabbed a 2-year-old girl by the head and dragged her from the yard of her home in...
» read full story May 08th, 2008 - 23:25
Hispanics are US’ Largest, Fastest-Growing Minority

Hispanics are US’ Largest, Fastest-Growing Minority

According to a survey carried out by Census Bureau, the nation's largest and fastest-growing...
» read full story May 01st, 2008 - 12:16
No Sign of the Killer Shark in San Diego Area

No Sign of the Killer Shark in San Diego Area

The search for the presumed white shark that killed a swimmer who was training in the ocean for the...
» read full story April 27th, 2008 - 11:09
Swimmer Killed by Shark in Ocean off California

Swimmer Killed by Shark in Ocean off California

A swimmer who was training in the ocean off San Diego County was killed by a shark on Friday.The...
» read full story April 25th, 2008 - 22:17
Minor Quakes Jog Reno, Nevada Causing No Injuries

Minor Quakes Jog Reno, Nevada Causing No Injuries

A series of minor earthquakes hit Reno city, Nevada in northern California on Thursday afternoon...
» read full story April 25th, 2008 - 13:41

Students Protest against Education Cuts

Around 2,000 upset students demonstrated around the State Capitol Monday morning in Sacramento,...
» read full story April 22nd, 2008 - 12:57
Two Expensive Cholesterol Drugs May Be Ineffective

Two Expensive Cholesterol Drugs May Be Ineffective

U.S. spent $1.5 billion in 2006 on Vytorin, a cholesterol drug that actually does not work better...
» read full story March 31st, 2008 - 15:03
UC Hired New President Mark Yudof for $828,000 a Year

UC Hired New President Mark Yudof for $828,000 a Year

University of Texas chancellor, Mark G. Yudof, was appointed as University of California’s new...
» read full story March 28th, 2008 - 12:49
Deputy’s Car Hits Group of Cyclists, 2 Dead, 1 Seriously Injured

Deputy’s Car Hits Group of Cyclists, 2 Dead, 1 Seriously Injured

A deputy sheriff on patrol in Cupertino, California, Sunday crossed the double-yellow line on...
» read full story March 10th, 2008 - 11:10
Virginia Tech Student Dead, 1 Hospitalized in Campus Crash

Virginia Tech Student Dead, 1 Hospitalized in Campus Crash

A Virginia Tech student was killed and another severely injured Saturday night when a motorist...
» read full story February 25th, 2008 - 12:50
Berkeley V. The Marines: Out With The ‘Unwelcome Intruders’

Berkeley V. The Marines: Out With The ‘Unwelcome Intruders’

What is the latest one-on-one combat on the U.S. agenda this week? Berkeley v. the Marines of...
» read full story February 10th, 2008 - 09:17

Photos of Californian Teen Swimmers Found on Gay Porn Sites

Numerous photos of teen water polo players from several South Californian high schools were posted...
» read full story January 21st, 2008 - 20:41
Sarkozy and Bush Wish Harmonious Political Relations

Sarkozy and Bush Wish Harmonious Political Relations

President Nicolas Sarkozy left France on Monday for a short visit in United States, which will...
» read full story November 06th, 2007 - 21:44
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People

Michael Crichton, Author of Jurassic Park, Dies of Cancer at 66

Michael Crichton, Author of Jurassic Park, Dies of Cancer at 66

Michael Crichton, aged 66, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday. According to the release issued by his...
» read full story November 06th, 2008 - 19:52
Former First Lady Hospitalized After Suffering Fall Fractures

Former First Lady Hospitalized After Suffering Fall Fractures

Following a fall at her home last week, former first lady Nancy Reagan was admitted to a local...
» read full story October 16th, 2008 - 14:16
Travis Barker and DJ AM Severely Injured, While Other Four Dead In Plane Crash

Travis Barker and DJ AM Severely Injured, While Other Four Dead In Plane Crash

Former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ Adam Michael Goldstein, also known as DJ...
» read full story September 21st, 2008 - 16:00
Beverly Hills 90210 Returns with Shannen Doherty and New Adventures

Beverly Hills 90210 Returns with Shannen Doherty and New Adventures

Famous TV show “Beverly Hills, 90210” is coming back to its older fans. And the surprise is that...
» read full story July 21st, 2008 - 17:11
Dr. Adams Abruptly Interrupts "Larry King Live"

Dr. Adams Abruptly Interrupts "Larry King Live"

The Beverly Hills plastic surgeon that operated on rapper Kanye West’s mother one day before...
» read full story November 21st, 2007 - 11:26
Grieving Kanye West Cancels Gig for Victoria's Secret

Grieving Kanye West Cancels Gig for Victoria's Secret

Rapper Kanye West, who is in mourning after the sudden death of his mother Donda West, has...
» read full story November 15th, 2007 - 16:23
Donda West's Doctor Had A Troubled Medical Past

Donda West's Doctor Had A Troubled Medical Past

Plastic surgeon Jan Adams, who operated on musician Kanye West’s mother one day before she...
» read full story November 14th, 2007 - 14:57
News Legend, Hal Fishman Left An Irreplaceable Anchor Position

News Legend, Hal Fishman Left An Irreplaceable Anchor Position

The 75 year news legend, Hal Fishman passed away on Tuesday, 3 a.m., in less than a week after...
» read full story August 08th, 2007 - 14:10
Journalist David Halbertsam Died in Car Crash at 73

Journalist David Halbertsam Died in Car Crash at 73

American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, who gained widespread fame through his early...
» read full story April 24th, 2007 - 12:42
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Technology

TV, Our Children’s Parent?

The U.S. National Institutes of Health, Yale University and the California Pacific Medical Center...
» read full story December 02nd, 2008 - 19:57
Online Time Helps Teens Develop Social and Technical Skills

Online Time Helps Teens Develop Social and Technical Skills

While adults don’t seem to appreciate the time teens spend online, a recent study by the MacArthur...
» read full story November 21st, 2008 - 15:49
CNN’s Hologram Technology under the Spotlight

CNN’s Hologram Technology under the Spotlight

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» read full story November 07th, 2008 - 15:36
Lead Companies Take A Stand Against Censorship & Privacy Violation

Lead Companies Take A Stand Against Censorship & Privacy Violation

Lead tech and communications companies, human rights organizations, investors and academics united...
» read full story October 29th, 2008 - 13:06
The Elderly Should Be Encouraged to Surf the Web

The Elderly Should Be Encouraged to Surf the Web

A study which is due to appear in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry shows that surfing...
» read full story October 14th, 2008 - 22:00

The Value of 243,112,609 - 1 in Cash

Mathematics is regarded as a pure science, working with pure concepts, concepts that outside...
» read full story September 30th, 2008 - 08:22
Copyright LawsuitI Against Veoh  Dismissed

Copyright LawsuitI Against Veoh Dismissed

A lawsuit, similar to the ones filed by copyright holders against YouTube, MySpace, and others,...
» read full story August 28th, 2008 - 22:29
Medpedia, The Online  Collaborative Project On Health

Medpedia, The Online Collaborative Project On Health

Almost everyone who uses the Internet surely knows about Wikipedia, the largest online...
» read full story July 23rd, 2008 - 15:29
HP Discovers Fourth Passive Circuit Element: the Memristor

HP Discovers Fourth Passive Circuit Element: the Memristor

HP has made a breakthrough discovery which added a fourth passive component type after resistors,...
» read full story April 30th, 2008 - 23:08
Microsoft, Intel Team Up For Parallel Computing Research Support

Microsoft, Intel Team Up For Parallel Computing Research Support

Microsoft and Intel teamed up to create two Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers (UPCRC)...
» read full story March 20th, 2008 - 13:36
Microsoft to Open Research Center near MIT

Microsoft to Open Research Center near MIT

Microsoft Corporation announced the opening of a sixth research lab in Cambridge, Mass. The new...
» read full story February 04th, 2008 - 19:36
Bionic Contact Lens – Everything Is Possible

Bionic Contact Lens – Everything Is Possible

Engineers at the University of Washington transformed a fairy-tale concept into real thing when...
» read full story January 19th, 2008 - 16:28
After Gates, Chief of Microsoft’s Office Business to Retire

After Gates, Chief of Microsoft’s Office Business to Retire

The latest shake-up inside Microsoft involve Jeff Raikes, the head of the company’s $16 billion...
» read full story January 11th, 2008 - 11:42
A New Discovery May Change The Future Of Tech

A New Discovery May Change The Future Of Tech

The IBM researchers published in the Thursday edition of the journal Optics Express a significant...
» read full story December 07th, 2007 - 14:12
They Wanted to Illegally Change Grades and Face 20 Years in Prison

They Wanted to Illegally Change Grades and Face 20 Years in Prison

Two men from California have wanted to illegally change their grades, but now they face up to 20...
» read full story November 04th, 2007 - 17:09
Google and IBM Team Up  For Cloud Computing For Universities

Google and IBM Team Up For Cloud Computing For Universities

Following a December 2006 meeting at Google’s Mountain View headquarters, Eric Schmidt and IBM’s...
» read full story October 09th, 2007 - 13:11
Sony to Present Cell Computing Board at SIGGRAPH 2007

Sony to Present Cell Computing Board at SIGGRAPH 2007

The raw power of the Cell CPU, developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba for PS3, will apparently debut...
» read full story August 03rd, 2007 - 17:24
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U.S.

Geithner To Head Obama's Economic Team During Crisis

Washington - President-elect Barack Obama Monday unveiled the economic team that will attempt to...
» read full story November 24th, 2008 - 22:59

Geithner to head Obama's economic team during crisis

Washington - President-elect Barack Obama Monday unveiled the economic team that will attempt to...
» read full story November 24th, 2008 - 21:30
Gay Community Marches against California’s Proposition 8

Gay Community Marches against California’s Proposition 8

Flourishing signs and banners, some 1,000 people marched on Saturday from the Government Center...
» read full story November 16th, 2008 - 23:07
Violent Fire Destroys Homes in California

Violent Fire Destroys Homes in California

A wind-driven brush fire destroyed dozens of homes in the hills above Santa Barbara,...
» read full story November 14th, 2008 - 15:00

Australians Roast Obama Victory

Sydney - There's an Obama blend at Campos Coffee in the hip Sydney suburb of Newtown, and on...
» read full story November 05th, 2008 - 09:13

Obama victory helps turn page on US racial history

San Francisco - An 11-year-old white girl came home from school in rural California a few days...
» read full story November 05th, 2008 - 07:53

Generational war in Florida over Obama and McCain

Miami - As if it were a generational war, Florida's Cuban- Americans are divided by age over...
» read full story October 26th, 2008 - 06:46
EWG Says Bottled Water Filled With Cancer-Linked Contaminants

EWG Says Bottled Water Filled With Cancer-Linked Contaminants

When we buy bottled water, we genuinely believe that it is safe to drink, but things are not like...
» read full story October 17th, 2008 - 11:39
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Health

Media Exposure Is Bad For Kids’ Health, Study Says

Media Exposure Is Bad For Kids’ Health, Study Says

Parents, have you ever wondered how exposure to media sources impacts the physical health of your...
» read full story December 02nd, 2008 - 15:20
Lack of Exercise in Depressed Cardiac Patients Worsens Outcomes

Lack of Exercise in Depressed Cardiac Patients Worsens Outcomes

If you suffer from depression, you need to look for medical help right away, as depression has...
» read full story November 28th, 2008 - 15:00
CT Scans Unreliable as Heart Test

CT Scans Unreliable as Heart Test

Wednesday, the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that even though Medicare, the United...
» read full story November 27th, 2008 - 21:19
Inactivity in Depressed Heart Patients Increases Cardiac Risk

Inactivity in Depressed Heart Patients Increases Cardiac Risk

Depression is one of the issues today’s world faces and tries to overcome. Scientists have shown...
» read full story November 26th, 2008 - 14:00
Antigenics Vaccine for Brain Cancer Shows Promising Results

Antigenics Vaccine for Brain Cancer Shows Promising Results

Biotechnology company Antigenics Inc announced on Monday that its experimental cancer treatment...
» read full story November 25th, 2008 - 17:00
Trial Shows Antigenics’ Oncophage Extends Survival in Cancer Patients

Trial Shows Antigenics’ Oncophage Extends Survival in Cancer Patients

A small study of patients with brain cancer showed that Antigenics Inc’s Oncophage vaccine helped...
» read full story November 24th, 2008 - 15:45
Girl, 14, Miraculously Survives Nearly 4 Months without Heart

Girl, 14, Miraculously Survives Nearly 4 Months without Heart

As incredible as it may sound, an American teenage girl has survived for nearly four months...
» read full story November 21st, 2008 - 14:00
Ginkgo Biloba Does Not Prevent Alzheimer’s, Study Shows

Ginkgo Biloba Does Not Prevent Alzheimer’s, Study Shows

Millions of people take the herbal supplement, hoping that it will cut their risk of developing...
» read full story November 20th, 2008 - 15:40
Assisted Reproductive Technology May Raise Risk For Birth Defects

Assisted Reproductive Technology May Raise Risk For Birth Defects

Babies conceived with assisted reproductive technology (ART) may be two to four times more likely...
» read full story November 18th, 2008 - 14:01
California Economy Loses $28 Billion Annually because of Air Pollution

California Economy Loses $28 Billion Annually because of Air Pollution

California's economy loses about $28 billion annually in health-related counts because of the...
» read full story November 13th, 2008 - 16:00