Aug 8 2008
Fingerprints could be used to detect traces of drugs or explosives in one of the most significant improvements in the technology for years.
Aug 7 2008
Scientists have created the world’s thinnest balloon, made of a single layer of carbon just one atom thick.
Aug 7 2008
There are generally two types of science: first, there’s the type that makes computers work, allows us to ride around in metal boxes propelled by continuous explosion, and makes it so that milk doesn’t taste all gross.
Aug 7 2008
Upset that the Apple iPhone is just no longer exclusive enough? Feeling cheated that the price has dropped to $200 and the hoi polloi can afford it?
Aug 7 2008
A British commuter was thrown on to a railway line after she told two youths to stop smoking on a station platform on Wednesday.
Aug 4 2008
The Gulf of Mexico, which is responsible for more than a quarter of the country’s domestic oil supply, is actually in the midst of a drilling boom.
Aug 3 2008
Actress Christina Applegate reportedly is undergoing treatment for breast cancer.
Aug 3 2008
The U.S. government is ignoring its own guidelines for HIV screening, putting more than 15 million people covered by federal health-care plans at risk of unwittingly carrying and spreading the deadly virus.
Aug 3 2008
The dusty documentation of the Anasazi Indians a thousand years ago, from their pit houses and kivas to the observatories from which they charted the heavens, lies thick in the ground near here at Canyons of the Ancients National Monument.
Aug 3 2008
Reliance ADA Group, a Mumbai conglomerate, was nearing a deal to give the dream workers $550 million to form a new movie company.