What does it mean to be human? In the six million years or so since our ancestors first stood upright, we still don't have the perfect answer. In an effort to help the public appreciate our own…

Unexpected context, So much for inventing motors or figuring out Autism Found on the web, from Stumble-upon So much for solving autism, inventing computors (Alan Turing 1912-1954) , motors or…

  Birefringence and the polarized light 1. Definition Birefringence is a kind of optical phenomenon that when the light go through an anisotropic crystals, there are two emergent refracted…

We are on. This afternoon just after 1PM the LHC beams have started to produce proton-proton collisions in the heart of the experiments, at the never-before achieved energy of 7 TeV. It was a long…

A very interesting question has been posed by colleague Mark Changizi (see his fascinating blogs at www.science20.com) related to brain size as it relates to body size. He presents good…

LONDON, MILAN and ROME, March 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Italian infrastructure for clearing and settlement of retail payments (Clearing and Settlement Mechanism - CSM) ICBPI/BI-COMP, operated by…

PRINCETON, New Jersey, March 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Informex Show Management today announced the keynote speaker for the inaugural Informex Specialty Chemicals Conference, to be held in Houston,…

BAARN, the Netherlands, March 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- A Timesoft branch in the USA will start operations in Atlanta, GA. on 1 April, under the name Accola.com. The new branch will focus on small and…

LONDON, March 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Telnic Limited (http://www.telnic.tel), the Registry Operator for the award-winning communications-focused .tel top level domain (TLD), today announced that the…

GDYNIA, Poland, March 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The IVO Software Company is presenting the award-winning IVONA Text-To-Speech (TTS) in the cutting-edge Software as a Service (SaaS) model. From now on…