Who's smarter than who?

The age old rivalry:  Boys Vs Girls Do you think girls are smarter than boys? or boys are smarter than girls? Find out the answer by y...

The iPad is Not A Kindle Killer; Blame the Display

T he iPad, the much-anticipated Apple tablet computer announced today, is not going to revolutionize the display industry. It doesn’t sp...

The dirtiest clean place on earth

The year is 2030, and polar bear number N 23450, tagged by Norwegian researchers back in 2015 in Svalbard when she was a cub, is starving...

Energy from Haiti quake like nuclear blast

STANFORD— Anne Kiremidjian, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, talks about the devastating earthquake in Haiti ...

Testing the great firewall of china

When search titan Google decided to censor its search results to gain access to the exploding Chinese web market, it attracted plenty of c...

FBI releases age-enhanced picture of Osama bin Laden

Digitally enhanced images show the world's most wanted terrorist with different grooming and clothing, which he may have adopted in a b...

When nanotubes are dangerous

Nanomaterials can be just as carcinogenic as asbestos – but identifying the bad actors is challenging. DIVERSITY: Nanomaterials are...

370 words cannot be used as Twitter password

Image via CrunchBase Twitter» , which is one of the most popular social networking websites has recently set a restriction on passwords. Ac...

Twitter hiring workers to turn Tweets into money

Image via Wikipedia Twitter , the popular but money-losing microblogging service, is hiring engineers and specialists who can help turn it...

New Earth

Worlds Apart Throughout history, only one Earth has been known to exist in the universe. Soon there may be another. And another. And ano...

Device Turns Thoughts Into Speech

Scientists have successfully tested a system that translates brain waves into speech, raising the prospect that people left mute by stroke...