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Apple to pay dividend, start stock buybacks

Thirty-six years after its founding, Apple Inc. is finally loosening up its purse strings to reward shareholders directly, by instituting a dividend and share buyback program.

Technology / Business

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 1.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Apple unveils new iPad with sharper screen (Update 2)

Apple gave the new iPad a bunch of new features but no new name.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (21) | comments 5

Stanford archives offer window into Apple origins

In the interview, Steve Wozniak and the late Steve Jobs recall a seminal moment in Silicon Valley history - how they named their upstart computer company some 35 years ago.

Technology / Other

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 16

Apple unveils faster, more powerful iPhone 4S

The most closely kept secret about the iPhone 5? There isn't one - yet. Apple unveiled a faster, more powerful version of its sleek iPhone on Tuesday and named it the 4S. It includes a futuristic, voice-activated ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 1.9 / 5 (15) | comments 16

Apple to unveil iPhone 5 on October 4: report

Apple plans to unveil its next generation iPhone next month, technology blog AllThingsD said Wednesday.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Behind Apple's products is longtime designer Ive

Steve Jobs has been Apple's most recognizable personality, but much of its cachet comes from its clean, inviting designs. For that, Apple can credit its head designer, Jonathan Ive.

Technology / Business

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Air France to power planes with cooking oil

In a giant nod to the growing recycled fuel industry, Air France-KLM has announced that it will start flying planes in September using a blend of kerosene and used cooking oil. More than 200 flights between Paris and Amsterdam ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Migration patterns linked to genetic differences in New Zealand seabirds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ground-breaking research by NIWA and The University of Auckland, investigating the annual movements of New Zealand seabirds migrating within the Pacific Ocean, has revealed that populations are genetically ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds black carbon implicated in global warming

Increasing the ratio of black carbon to sulfate in the atmosphere increases climate warming, suggests a study conducted by a University of Iowa professor and his colleagues and published in the July 25 issue of the journal ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 29, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Waste chip fat fuels hydrogen economy

Don't pour that dirty fat from the frier down the sink -- it could be used to make the fuel of the future.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Discovery may revolutionize cooking oil production

A Queen's University chemistry professor has invented a special solvent that may make cooking oil production more environmentally friendly.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New 'smart' roof reads the thermometer, saves energy in hot and cold climates

Top a building with a light-colored "cool roof," and it reflects sunlight, cutting air conditioning bills in summer, but increasing winter heating costs. Choose black shingles, and the roof soaks up sunlight ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Pan-frying meat with gas may be worse than electricity for raising cancer risk

Frying meat on a gas hob may be more harmful to health than using an electric hob, because of the type of fumes it produces, suggests research published ahead of print in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Harvard scientist says we are what we eat -- and what we cook

"You are what you eat." Can these pithy words explain the evolution of the human species?

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Charred meat may increase risk of pancreatic cancer

Meat cooked at high temperatures to the point of burning and charring may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research 100th Annual Meeting 2009.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1