Whites would lose their majority in the U.S. three years later than expected if immigration growth slows, according to census estimates released Wednesday.

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

May 15, 2013 1 / 5 (2) 1

Syria's Internet appeared to have been restored on Wednesday afternoon after a two-day blackout, residents and state media said.

Technology - Internet

May 08, 2013 not rated yet 0

Syria's Internet blackout entered into its second consecutive day Wednesday, which the state news agency blamed on a fault in optical fibre cables.

Technology - Internet

May 08, 2013 not rated yet 0

Low cost efficiency put India's outsourcing companies at the heart of global business and created a multibillion dollar industry that for years has skated over criticism it was eliminating white collar jobs ...

Technology - Business

Apr 23, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

A bipartisan Senate immigration bill would put the 11 million immigrants in the country illegally on a 13-year path to U.S. citizenship that would cost $2,000 in fines plus additional fees, and would begin only once steps ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Apr 16, 2013 not rated yet 0

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new political action group he is spearheading Thursday to press for reforms in areas including immigration and education.

Technology - Business

Apr 11, 2013 2.8 / 5 (4) 4

(Phys.org)—Hidden beneath ocean waves and masked by sand and mud on the seafloor, underwater faults are notoriously difficult to see and even more difficult to study. As a result, geologists struggle to ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jan 31, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

Reporters Without Borders on Wednesday launched a new indicator measuring global press freedom by aggregating the scores of its annual index, from perennial table-topping Finland to worst offenders Eritrea.

Technology - Other

Jan 30, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Global Internet connection speeds around the world slowed in late 2012, according to a survey released Wednesday that suggested a temporary stall in broadband gains.

Technology - Telecom

Jan 23, 2013 1 / 5 (3) 5

(Phys.org)—The hand-held scanners, or tricorders, of the Star Trek movies and television series are one step closer to reality now that a University of Missouri engineering team has invented a compact source of X-rays and ...

Physics - Plasma Physics

Jan 08, 2013 4.8 / 5 (5) 0 |

After more than a century, lynxes have returned to northern Hungary thanks to a ban on hunting the wild cats in neighbouring Slovakia, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said Thursday.

Biology - Ecology

Dec 13, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

You'd think it would be easy to use seismic waves to find tunnels dug by smugglers of drugs, weapons or people. You'd be wrong. 

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Dec 06, 2012 not rated yet 2

An Israeli company is aiming to revolutionise the way explosives, narcotics and even money are detected at airports, docks and border crossings with the help of specially trained covert agents.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 14, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—Next time you drive into the United States from Mexico or Canada, you may want to open a new iPhone app and provide an eyewitness account of how long you have to wait. That 'crowdsourced' information ...

Technology - Software

Nov 09, 2012 1 / 5 (1) 1

Russia on Thursday put into force a new law on the Internet that allows the government to block websites with banned content, prompting fears that it will be used to suppress free speech.

Technology - Internet

Nov 01, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0