By downloading a free program, you and your laptop could help researchers pinpoint earthquakes and even sound an early warning to surrounding areas. Newer models of laptops manufactured by companies like Apple and Lenovo contain…
People who struggle to remember faces can blame their parents. That’s because the ability to remember a face is inherited, according to a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers also…
Tradeable Corruption Certificates (TCC) are likely to be launched on Stock Markets in Asia and the Middle East in the next few days with the Indonesian Stock Market likely to be a star performer given…
JERUSALEM — Israel has banned imports of Apple Inc.’s hottest new product, the iPad, citing concerns the powerful gadget’s wireless signals could disrupt other devices. Customs officials said Thursday they have already confiscated about 10…
No one really knows why, but for an open wound, simply applying suction dramatically speeds healing times. (The theory is that the negative pressure draws bacteria out, and encourages circulation.) But for almost everyone, that…
NEW YORK — The city will end the practice of paying teachers to play Scrabble, read or surf the Internet in reassignment centers nicknamed “rubber rooms” as they await disciplinary hearings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and…
Men and weapons are sometimes seen as a pair of symbolic importance in maintaining the greatness of the state. In Javanese mythology, one such weapon was named after the great master artisan (Mpu) who created…
Scientists are beginning to understand why fearful memories are so persistent in the brain, and how they can be erased. The research could help thousands of people with post-traumatic stress disorder, including many veterans, says…
This year, my travels took me to France, a place with a mouth-watering smell of freshly baked croissant, a sophisticated and artistic allure present on every street and building, and a mixture of urban and…
WARSAW, Poland — The leader of Poland’s government in exile while the nation was under Soviet-backed rule. The shipyard worker whose firing helped ignite the labor uprising that ultimately toppled communism here. A banking head…
SYDNEYÂ — Australian authorities on Monday refloated a huge Chinese ship that had been stranded on the Great Barrier Reef for more than a week after running aground, averting a potential environmental crisis. Emergency workers…
Researchers have concluded that a giant, golden-spotted monitor lizard discovered in the forested mountains of the Philippines six years ago is a new species, according to a study released Wednesday. The 6.5-foot-long lizard was first…
Islamist militants unleashed a car bomb and grenade attack against a U.S. consulate in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing four people and striking back after months of American missile strikes against Taliban and al-Qaida fighters…
Eager customers intent on being among the first owners of this new class of gadgetry stood in long lines across the country Saturday. They seemed willing to buy first – and discover uses for the…
A Hacienda Heights school will get free materials — books, a laptop, playing cards — from the Confucius Classroom language program. Critics see a propaganda tool, but backers say fears are unfounded Most students in…
After months of mounting tension, the leaders of the U.S. and China appear to be putting recent strains in their relationship behind them. China’s Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday, April 1, that President Hu Jintao…
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