Both Sony and Microsoft have been looking to take a bite out of Nintendo's wildly popular Wii system - and they need the help.   Playstation 3 is plagued by the 'yellow screen of death', where…

If you aren't familiar with the cultural lowest common denominator that is the faux reality show "Jersey Shore", well, you are lucky.    It follows the travails of some truly idiotic…

AUSTIN, Texas, November 4, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- NovaCentrix, a leader in printed electronics manufacturing technologies, announced today that U.S. Patent #7,820,097 entitled Electrical, Plating and…

2010 is the biggest year for life on Mars since 1898.  Or 1955 or whenever the last 'life on other planets' craze hit the public.   But unlike those other times, there is good reason…

On October 26th, the residents of Earth’s northernmost town, Longyearbyen, Norway watched the sun set and the next time they see it will be February.  Depressing?  Science says Seasonal…

From Scienceblogs: Lately I've been thinking and giving some talks about Scandinavian pseudo-archaeological writers, that is, people who publish books on the past with unsubstantiated claims to…

As the U.S. Navy bombs Guam with dead, poisoned mice in the latest attempt to eradicate invasive brown tree snakes, it's worth taking a moment to sit back and appreciate -- yes, appreciate --…

In Physical Review Letters, a large group of physicists published their study from the MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab in Illinois. When they looked at oscillations of muon antineutrinos into…

Researchers Patrick Markey and Charlotte Markey, associate professors in psychology at Villanova University and Rutgers University, respectively, were trying to test the idea that testosterone levels…

Blogs Krystal D'Costa at Scientific American; There are an estimated 900,000 elevators in the United States, each serving an average of 20,000 people per year (1). That means approximately 18 billion…