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Which came first? The chicken, not the egg!

Posted July 14, 2010 - 13:56 by Mike Luttrell

Scratch that famous question off the list of unsolvable riddles because now there is an answer to, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"

Holding something heavy makes people feel more serious

Posted June 25, 2010 - 09:01 by Emma Woollacott

Stroking a white cat didn't seem to make Blofeld particularly affectionate in You Only Live Twice - but maybe he'd have been even nastier if he'd been holding a rock.

Neuroscientists know what you're planning, even when you don't

Posted June 23, 2010 - 07:04 by Emma Woollacott

Neuroscientists at the University of California Los Angeles claim they can can predict your behavior better than you can.

AARP survey reveals geezer love of social networking

Posted June 17, 2010 - 22:04 by Emory Kale

There is an organization devoted to people who are old. They have wealth and power, and they own the Internets. OMG!

Snowblind Ozzy declared a medical miracle

Posted June 16, 2010 - 14:03 by STARR KESHET

Have you ever wondered why and how the Prince of Darkness is still alive?   

Americans start to care again about global warming

Posted June 9, 2010 - 05:15 by Emma Woollacott

US concern over global warming is starting to rise again - good timing, perhaps, as the US Senate prepares to vote this week on whether to block the EPA from regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

Most kids unaffected by violent games

Posted June 8, 2010 - 07:09 by Staff writer

Do violent video games make for violent teenage gamers? Only if they're not very nice to start with, according to new research.

Electric vehicle offers powerful acceleration

Posted June 1, 2010 - 04:49 by Staff writer

The Tecnalia Technological Corporation has built a totally electric car that can reach 140 kilometers per hour in 10 seconds.

Climate change was major cause of mass mammal extinction

Posted May 18, 2010 - 07:56 by Staff writer

Climate change has been a significant factor in mass mammal extinction over most of the last fifty thousand years, according to an international team.

Gadgets make the world a happier place, says report

Posted May 13, 2010 - 09:10 by Emma Woollacott

Technology makes people happy, and women benefit even more than men, according to a global study from the British Computer Society.

American teenagers would rather text than talk

Posted April 20, 2010 - 03:34 by Emma Woollacott

Teenage American girls send more than 100 text messages a day, according to research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

IBM reaches a hand out to start-ups

Posted April 1, 2010 - 22:52 by Mike Luttrell

IBM has announced a new program called "Global Entrepreneur Initiative," designed to encourage small start-up companies to join the team, learn from some of IBM's best people and research, and help grow the companies that may some day be officially under IBM's corporate portfolio.