Google announced on Wednesday that Kansas City, Kansas, had been selected as the site for its first super-fast broadband Internet network.

Technology - Telecom

Mar 30, 2011 4.8 / 5 (4) 6

Two Ryerson University undergraduate biomedical engineering students are changing the world of medical prosthetics with a newly developed prosthetic arm that is controlled by brain signals. The Artificial ...

Technology - Engineering

Mar 30, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 2

Siemens and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) plan to demonstrate that high-temperature superconductor technology is suitable for power generation in everyday operation. The research project, which ...

Technology - Engineering

Mar 30, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 1

Long before the Italians rediscovered original Greek sources during the Renaissance, Arab scholars recognized the importance of ancient science and philosophy and began translating precious writings into Arabic. ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 30, 2011 5 / 5 (5) 2

Lockheed Martin rolled out the first aircraft in a new fleet of MC-130J Combat Shadow IIs for the U.S. Air Force’s Special Operations Command (AFSOC) during a ceremony here today.

Technology - Engineering

Mar 30, 2011 not rated yet 3

Wow. This remarkable visualization shows every Kepler planetary candidate host star with its transiting companion in silhouette. Jason Rowe from the Kepler science team created the image, and the sizes of ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 30, 2011 5 / 5 (7) 3

Japan’s HTV-2 Kounotori resupply ship undocked from the International Space Station at 15.45 GMT on March 28, and will burn up in Earth’s atmosphere sometime early Wednesday March 31. Back in January, ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 30, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

Radiation levels recorded at a village outside the evacuation zone around the quake-striken Fukushima nuclear plant are above safe levels, the UN atomic watchdog said Wednesday.

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 30, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

The University of Alabama in Huntsville’s moon buggy may not go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, but it can handle the lunar regolith like nobody’s business. And that’s no small feat, says mechanical ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 30, 2011 4 / 5 (3) 0

The American dream of owning a home with a white picket fence may stay a dream for many, according to a recent study by a Kansas State University economist.

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Mar 30, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 0

Bill Gates plotted to grab Microsoft shares from his cancer-stricken business partner Paul Allen, the software firm's co-founder has claimed in a new memoir.

Technology - Business

Mar 30, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 5

Basic Yellow 1, a dye used in neuroscience laboratories around the world to detect damaged protein in Alzheimer's disease, is a wonder drug for nematode worms. In a study appearing in the March 30, online edition of Nature, the dy ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Mar 30, 2011 4.8 / 5 (5) 1 |

If you're sitting on a bench in New York City's Central Park in winter, you're probably freezing. After all, the average temperature in January is 32 degrees Fahrenheit. But if you were just across the pond ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 30, 2011 4.7 / 5 (7) 57 |

NASA's Kepler Mission is giving astronomers such a clear view of changes in star brightness that they can now see clues about what's happening inside red giant stars.

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Mar 30, 2011 4.8 / 5 (15) 2 |

The most recently discovered amino acid, pyrrolysine, is produced by a series of just three chemical reactions with a single precursor – the amino acid lysine, according to new research.

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Mar 30, 2011 4.8 / 5 (4) 1 |