Researchers have made environmentally-friendlier bricks that are also stronger than traditional ones.   That is a big win for everyone. Untreated clay was one of the earliest building materials…

MENLO PARK, California, October 5, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Protiviti Inc., (http://www.protiviti.com) a global business consulting and internal audit firm, today announced that Bahrain Commercial…

Their son died in a horrific car accident, but that was just the beginning of dealing with his heart-wrenching death for his parents. Next, after he was buried, they found out his brain was on…

MINNEAPOLIS, October 4, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- BridgePoint Medical, Inc., a medical device company focused on coronary and peripheral catheter-based systems for chronic total occlusion (CTO)…

HOUSTON, October 4, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Far East Energy Corporation announced today that its second-half 2010 drilling program for the Shouyang Block commenced recently with three wells, the 34D,…

I doubt many of us will lament the loss of BIOS.   It is a testament to Microsoft that they made sure as much software as possible was as backward-compatible as possible for as long as possible…

No one is canceling vacation plans just yet but the strongest warning yet about visiting France and Germany has come from Britian, that the terror threat there was high.  It's no surprise since…

In 1995 the physicist HvL was employee of an internal software house of a large electronics company. His speciality was the creation of scientific software. Then he got the invitation from a software…

A new poll by Nature and Scientific American, out in SA's October 2010 issue, notes that scientists have had a tough year - the "leaked 'Climategate' e-mails painted researchers as censorious," the…

The IAC made "some incorrect assumptions and conclusions" in its report, according to this letter from IPCC Working Group II (fourth assessment), responding to criticism about the IPCC's process,…