If new research from Spain can be further developed into a viable model, it could mean great things for tobacco growers worried about the future of their business.
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An expert is someone whose purpose in life is to tell you why something won’t work. So goes the old adage, but the entrepreneur and philanthropist Naveen Jain isn’t buying it.
Nobody knows for sure what is inside two floating barges, owing to some extraordinary secrecy measures that have been taken.
THERE IS something I must tell you about China: It is rather morally creative in the usage of its women. There isn’t a hotel, massage parlor, ktv, or conference hall in town […]
In the midst of all that devastation, there were two technologies that literally shone: microgrids and cogeneration.
Tech-savvy, hard-working people, says Tyler Cowen in his book Average is Over, have a lot to gain in the new economy. The rest of us? Not so much.
Currently being tested in Iowa and Florida, Starchase fires the bullets from the grill of a pursuing police car, which then stick to the fleeing vehicle and deliver coordinates to a computer or smartphone.
Have you ever noticed how long people look at a painting in a museum or gallery? Surveys have clocked view times anywhere between 10 and 17 seconds. The Louvre estimated […]
Next month, the first of nine episodes of “Sheriff Callie’s Wild West” will air exclusively on the Watch Disney Junior app and a related Web site. It’s a blatant attempt to grab the growing audience of tablet-using kids ages 2-7.
Fifty-two percent of Americans believe the death penalty is applied fairly in the United States — a smaller figure than the 60% who favor the death penalty.
For two years, researchers tracked over a million Facebook adults who were married or “in a relationship.” Among many findings, they learned that the more mutual friends a couple had, the more likely it was that they’d break up.
The company has begun a three-month trial of Wikipedia Zero in Kenya. It works exclusively via SMS and is designed to reach the millions of people who have mobile phones but no Internet access.
Oil is not properly priced from anyone’s standpoint. Coal is not an acceptable answer. Where does that leave us?
We are searching for the medium that allows people to both learn and teach.
Vancouver is now home to a machine that accepts and dispenses only cash and Bitcoin account data. The goal, say its owners, is to make the virtual currency easier to buy and sell.
The video below, released to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Mars Express, is a stunning flyover of the planet, showcasing grabens, dendritic valleys, lava flows and the highest known mountain in the Solar System.
So the new X-Men film trailer is out. It’s being Tweeted, Facebooked; it’s probably rising through the ranks of YouTube, Vimeo and so on. It’s easy content for sites, a blessing of […]
Gloria Feldt: I have my religious beliefs too and they tell me that using birth control is a good thing and that birth control is basic healthcare that should be part of any insurance plan.
How long must creative people wait for the Web’s new wealth to find a path to their doors?
Whether we are looking at climate change, whether we are looking at AIDS, whether we are looking at war and conflict, the stem of it comes into making sure that people are educated.
South Africa’s best satirical cartoonist, Jonathan Shapiro (AKA Zapiro), is in hot water for depicting the Hindu god Ganesh in a cartoon. As usual, those who worship said god are […]
Brain decoding is the technique by which neuroscientists are able to decipher what a person is experiencing during a dream.
Markets can move mountains. But we must guide their power, using empirical behaviors. They should serve us, not we them.
Most traffic is the result of extremely subtle changes in the flow of traffic, caused, for instance, be drivers speeding up or slowing down ever so slightly. This has a ripple effect.
At the end of next month, Comet ISON is expected to be at its brightest, when it is nearest to the Sun. Still, no one knows exactly what it will look like.
Having been raised with traditional views of womanhood, Fatimah Asghar says “I was invisible for most of my life.” That is no longer the case for the award-winning poet and performer.
There is evolutionary significance to the petty acts of aggression that were famously portrayed by Lindsay Lohan and other young women in the 2004 film Mean Girls.
The AI company Vicarious has created an algorithm that can solve CAPTCHA “with greater than 90% accuracy.”
A recent report shows that bikes outsold new cars in 27 European Union member countries last year. While it’s tempting to cite the economic crisis as a reason, some predict that it may be a sign of greater change.
It is so easy now to mock the millions who freaked out at the “War of the Worlds”, the Halloween radio play 75 years ago this week about an […]