Life has had billions of years to evolve defences against free radicals, reactive oxygen compounds and other physical and chemical assaults that can damage cell components, including our genetic…

The field of particle physics is poised to enter unknown territory with the startup of a massive new accelerator--the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)--in Europe this summer. On September 10, LHC…

Use of embedded software in electronics devices is growing even faster than advances in electronics themselves. Yet human capabilities for producing software have not increased in Europe over the…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, August 20 /PRNewswire/ -- - 12 Days to go Before 125 Universities Exhibit Latest Cleantech Innovations to Industry Executives at COPENMIND WHAT: COPENMIND, a global expo and…

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, August 20 /PRNewswire/ -- - Additional resources, training and investments to address growing customer demand. Microsoft Corp and Novell Inc are announcing an incremental…

On the 17th of June 2008, The Richard Green Library, a collection of rare scientific books was put up for bid by Christi’s Auction House. Of the 289 lots sold totaling $11,019,688 the most notable…

LONGMONT, Colorado, and REUTTE, Austria, August 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. based DPHI, Inc. dba DataPlay has received the approval to purchase the assets and intellectual property of DaTARIUS…

After the Olympics, the next big thing is the international Large Hadron Collider. There's a lot of excitement at CERN. The first injections, and without a hitch, of low energy protons shot through…

Yahoo! Buzz, a competitor to social news sites like Digg and Reddit, has been opened up to the entire worldwide community. We've been critical at times of sites like Digg, which are overrun by…

Scientific happenings, big and small, on this day in history But first, today’s quiz: What famous inventor, born on this day in 1871, will forever be famous for something he did for only 12 seconds…