Nanotubes are often regarded as a precursor to nanocircuitry.  A group at UC San Diego has found that they work pretty well for transferring biological information, too.  Oh, et al. showed…

   Tycho Brahe was a sixteenth-century Danish, astronomer, astrologer and alchemist, most famous as the mentor of Johannes Kepler. In 1566 after a rousing night of drinking, Tycho lost a…

If you've ever been to a windy beach or a snow-blown landscape, you may have noticed a useless-looking fence with a pile of snow or sand on one side. The fence looks useless because it's full of…

Mold is icky. However, it has yielded one of the most important advances in medicine: antibiotics. There was a time when penicillin was the cure-all antibiotic, capable of quelling almost any one-…

TORONTO, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- iSkin Inc. today introduced the iSkin solo FX: a hot new iPhone 3G protector that blends glitz and glamour with fashion-forward design features. *(PHOTO 72dpi:…

It's Friday and time for a coffee break. Looking for more Darwin reading? (If you're already sick of the Darwin Bicentennial, you're in for a loooong year.) Michael Shermer takes on common…

It's been nearly thirty years since the last application for construction of a nuclear power plant was filed in the United States. Despite the age of the reactors already operating, however, the…

MUMBAI, India, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- - Net Sales up 14%, Net Profit up 28%, One More Site Approved by USFDA Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Reuters: SUN.BO, Bloomberg: SUNP IN, NSE:…

HONG KONG, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- - Summary: Hong Kong, Sunday 8th February 2009 China's Yang Fengxia will be hoping to overturn a 40-second deficit on Australia's Billinda Schipp, and snatch…

GIBRALTAR, January 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Mansion will ensure online gamers will be having warm, cozy evenings this February with a variety of all-new promotions across its major casino brands; http://…