MCKINNEY, Texas, February 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Torchmark Corporation reported today that for the quarter ended December 31, 2010, net income was $1.91 per share, compared with $1.36 per share for…

Some professional racers drive like crazy people on the streets but they are a special sort of crazy because they know what they are doing.   You never hear about professional racers getting…

Government-sanctioned, drug-fueled raves?  Sure, if it makes sense to have elementary school children putting condoms on bananas, it certainly makes sense (this is L.A. we are talking about) to…

[I’m re-posting this, because the original, from Saturday, seems to have disappeared.] The big Internet tech news last week was that the last block of Internet addresses, for the version of the…

A milestone in the international Avogadro project coordinated by the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) has been reached - with the aid of a single crystal of highly enriched 28Si, the…

I like coffee but I love coffee makers.  I currently own 14, though only four are allowed on the counter at any one time.   They're not all elaborate.  One is an electric percolator…

Well, it's been six months and the news cycle has come around again to the same squiddy topics: a new TV show about giant squid, and the question of whether squid can hear. The giant squid…

Einstein’s relativity theory and quantum physics, in theory as well as experiment, are extremely concerned with light. This comes directly from the fact that light does not exist as an independent…

CALGARY, Canada, February 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Perpetual Energy Inc. ("Perpetual" or the "Corporation") is pleased to confirm that its dividend to be paid on March 15, 2011 in respect of income…

ESPOO, Suomi, February 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Qvantel, kansainvälinen tietotekniikan palvelutalo, tehostaa Baswaren laskutustapahtumien käsittelyä uudella, innovatiivisella ratkaisulla, jonka avulla…