Your ability to resist that tempting cookie depends on how a big a threat you perceive it to be, according to a study in the Journal of Consumer Research. University of Texas researchers studied…

University of Toronto quantum optics researchers have discovered new behaviors of light within photonic crystals that could lead to faster optical information processing and compact computers that…

GAITHERSBURG, Maryland, December 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Patton -- the leader in business and carrier-class VoIP, network access, connectivity, and video surveillance equipment -- is now shipping the…

Often promoted as a 'clean-burning' alternative to gasoline that could help break our oil addiction, ethanol would likely worsen health problems caused by ozone, especially in winter, according to…

According to four studies appearing in the latest issue of the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of molten rock rising…

Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant and author of the recent book Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind (Free Press). You may have heard of him. For example, most people…

The question on everyone’s lips is “Why?” Why did someone like Tiger Woods, who had so much to lose, do what he did? Because he could? Because he didn’t care?We’ll never really know until the Oprah…

The question on everyone’s lips is “Why?” Why did someonelike Tiger Woods, who had so much to lose, do what he did? Because he could? Because he didn’t care? We’ll never really know until the Oprah…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 14 /PRNewswire/ -- International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC), the global provider of tailored, industry-driven conferences, is pleased to announce…

COP15: Senior US official maps vision for new energy future at UN climate change summit 11 December 2009 The international agreements being negotiated in Copenhagen “will propel all of us forward in…