BERGEN, Norway, December 3, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, it's learning announced that it will acquire a 66% stake in educational technology provider InfoStance (http://www.infostance.com/) from the…

This isn't the kind of Ferrari you expect Formula One drivers to be in but it sure goes fast - it is the world's fastest roller coaster, screaming along at 150 MPH. Watch F-1 drivers Fernando Alonso…

The Post Carbon Institute has a video on 300 years of fossil fuel usage.  It isn't entirely accurate (we didn't 'run out' of wood, it got surpassed) but it's interesting. As they write "While…

Did you know about the anime Squid Girl? Apparently it came in third in the 2010 "Net Buzzword Awards," a competition that was heretofore unknown to me. Shinryaku! Ika Musume earned the Bronze Prize…

We instinctively know how to keep ourselves safe and so do other animals, according to neuroscientists in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.   University of Washington…

It seems that Abigail and Jacob will be at the top of Santa's gift-list this Christmas morning. A school rewards site says that children with these names are most likely to behave well.   …

In another chapter in the Democratic War on Science, Kentucky scientists are concerned about Democratic Governor Steve Beshear's announcement that the state is partnering with Answers in Genesis…

Scientists at the Vatican support so-called genetically modified crops but the head of the Catholic Church's science advisors has now said that the statement does not represent an official…

What is the totalitarian solution to young people spending too much time on the Internet?  An Internet 'curfew' forcing them off.    The proposed "Cinderella" ban would make it…

H0 charge "clouds" in |4,3,1> state.         In about 1985, while considering a banal problem of scattering from atoms, I occasionally discovered the positive-…