The Web has changed a lot since Marc Andreessen revolutionized the Internet with the introduction of his Netscape browser in the mid-1990s. That’s why he’s betting people are ready to try a different Web-surfing technique on a new browser called RockMelt.
Combining pest-resistant cotton with the controlled release of sterile pink bollworm moths, a UA-led initiative has virtually rid Arizona of one the world’s most damaging cotton pestsUsing pests as part of an insect birth con…
Recent headlines about the LHC and the big bang look remarkably similar to the other headlines about the LHC and the big bang. What’s the difference now?Last week the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the particle physics lab in Geneva where I spend a lot of my time, switched from colliding protons to colliding the [...]
Families likely to abandon case aimed at compensating children born with disabilities after mothers took drug during pregnancyA landmark legal case by families of children with physical and mental disabilities against a multinational pharmaceutical company is likely to be abandoned after legal aid was withdrawn.The families say manufacturers of an anti-epilepsy drug taken by mothers [...]
Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Pluto could be the ninth-largest world orbiting the sun after all.
Simple mobile technology, like basic cell phones, can be used to save the lives of mothers in childbirth, and improve the care of newborns and children, reaching underserved populations in remote areas. More advanced mobile technology can do even mo…
Lupus puts children at higher risk for coronary artery disease when they become adults, but routinely using statins doesn’t provide enough benefit to warrant their regular use in children and adolescents, according to the largest study of pediatric …
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea has found an undetermined amount of rare earth minerals in a deposit in the eastern Gangwon province, state-run Korea Resources Corp (KORES) said on Monday.
The Thrill Laboratory took over the Broadway Cinema in Nottingham as part of the Mayhem Horror Film Festival. Fear, panic and arousal were monitored in four peopl…
Hundred of words such as ’suffarcinate’, ‘jobler’ and ‘welmish’ have fallen out of everyday use. But they’re not dead yet . . .If you’ve ever adopted something for charity then you know the drill. Send a tenner a year to a donkey sanctuary and you get a letter every six months explaining how well Trigger [...]
A fledgling technology that pumps greenhouse gases deep beneath the earth’s surface won’t get off the ground without taxes, says a newly released report.
Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this is a weekly report about nature, science and history books that have been newly published in North America and the UK.Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I’ll have a long beard by the time [...]
This lovely North American mystery bird is closely related to a common Old World speciesGreat blue heron, Ardea herodias, photographed California, USA. Image: Steve Duncan [velociraptorize].Nikon D200 w/ Nikkor 300mm f/4 & TC17E. Question: This North American mystery bird sometimes turns up in Europe, with records from Spain, the Azores and England. This bird is [...]
Apple says on its website that repeating alarms set on iPhones and some versions of the iPod touch may not recognize the end of daylight saving time and may work incorrectly shortly before or shortly after the Sunday morning time change.
This stunning African mystery bird was the only one that the photographer saw in a tree — any ideas as to its identify?Mystery Bird photographed at Tarangire National Park, Tanzania, Africa. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]Image: Dan Logen, January 2010 [velociraptorize].Nikon D300, 600 mm lens with 1.4 extender, ISO 400, [...]