NEW YORK, December 6, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Pfizer Inc. today announced that its Board of Directors has elected Ian C. Read, 57, currently head of the Company's global biopharmaceutical operations,…

SEOUL, South Korea, December 6, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- At the CineAsia Conference in Hong Kong this week, 3D technology company MasterImage 3D introduced a new digital 3D cinema system, the MI-2100S,…

The semester is all over except for finals week, so this weekend and next week will have me busy grading all the papers I assigned. It's good work, busy work, and nice to see how much stronger…

Our body is a constant reminder of the fact that we share our origins with many other species, as Neil Shubin describes it so well in his book “Your inner fish”. The basic plan for members has…

DNA computing and storage has been on the horizon for most of this decade but never gone beyond the intellectual exercise stage.   Storage limitations were far too small to merit applied science…

Researchers have created the first brain-wide wiring map of a fruit fly, a breakthrough that is being compared to the genome for geneticists, and they say it paves the way for a comprehensive…

It was hard to miss the arsenic microbe news last week.  Heck, I was in the woods of Pennsylvania with no cell phone access much less Internet and I knew about it.    The NASA hype…

SHANGHAI, December 5, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM TechWeb Game Network's third annual Game Developers Conference(TM) China (GDC China) begins today at the Shanghai International Convention Center. The…

Some people might suggest the nautilus as the ancestor of modern squid, since they're the only "ancient-looking" cephalopods most of us have seen. But the lineage that led to modern nautiluses and…

In another chapter in the War on Science, Wikileaks documents show that the US government was less interested in science accuracy and more interested in pushing its climate agenda during the 2009 run…