From a drab office in this ultra-Orthodox Jewish stronghold, three devout young women hunch over computers and surf the Internet - looking for pornography, celebrity gossip and a laundry list of other items banned by their ...
Internet
Nov 29, 2010
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A drilling rig bit into the bed of California's biggest river, hauling up sage-green tubes of clay and sand the consistency of uncooked fudge.
Environment
Nov 29, 2010
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Europe's leading airline, Lufthansa, said Monday that it will offer regular service between Frankfurt and Hamburg in April with a plane that can use biofuel in addition to jet fuel.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 29, 2010
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A computer hacker known as the "Jester" who calls himself a "hacktivist for good" is taking credit for temporarily taking down the WikiLeaks website.
Internet
Nov 29, 2010
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Gold nanoparticles, tiny pieces of gold so small that they can't be seen by the naked eye, are used in electronics, healthcare products and as pharmaceuticals to fight cancer. Despite their positive uses, the process to make ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 29, 2010
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(AP) -- The online website WikiLeaks on Sunday blamed the temporary outage of its site on a denial-of-service attack by unknown hackers trying to prevent its release of hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. State Department ...
Internet
Nov 29, 2010
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Fires in homes and offices could be tackled more efficiently using technology that predicts how a blaze will spread.
Environment
Nov 29, 2010
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The 'synthetic breath' which helps to thoroughly test each newly developed evidential breath analyser in approval procedures at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany, can now be produced even more precisely. ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 29, 2010
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In recent years, the tragic story of mine accidents has been retold many times in international headlines. But thanks to the work of Ryerson University researcher Xavier Fernando, countless miners' lives could be saved in ...
Engineering
Nov 29, 2010
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(AP) -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to referee a $290 million dispute between Microsoft Corp. and a Canadian technology company over complaints that a tool used in the popular Microsoft Word program violated patent protections.
Business
Nov 29, 2010
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