ST. HELENA, CA – It’s a fine Saturday, and the traffic lines up on Highway 29 as the day’s crop of tourists meander from vineyard to vineyard along the road that bisects Napa Valley.  By year’s…

Isn’t it nice when someone does your work for you?  For some years now, NIL Technololgy have been sending me science news emails as a form of advertising.  Mostly these are to do with…

Wikipedia is crowdsourced knowledge and therefore discourages people from writing about themselves. As a result, 60 percent of Wikipedia articles about companies contain factual errors, according to…

Noise levels, fine particulate matter that leads to smog and traffic volumes are a big concern to  urban planners and residents now but they will be even bigger issues in the 'city of tomorrow…

Want to get an autism diagnosis but are just too darn busy? Researchers at Harvard Medical School are here to help.  Yes, the process of diagnosing autism is complex and subjective but what…

Despite claims that there is not enough diversity in anonymous, voluntary efforts, it often comes down to choice.  Women are not discriminated against on Wikipedia, though more men do it, and…

It's the team-up no one ever expected to see; video game characters and...fashion.  But it has. The latest issue of Arena Homme+, a men's fashion magazine, has a CGI photo shoot of Final Fantasy…

Robots don't understand subtlety - what is effortless to a human, like pouring juice into a cup, is a challenge for a machine. While one hand holds the glass bottle firmly, the other one must gently…

Will review reports published with articles enhance peer review quality?  Elsevier, a global provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, thinks so, and has…

After WikiLeaks released classified and sensitive government documents, predictions of the scale and significance of their impact were overstated. The desire/hope of proponents that the WikiLeaks…