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A millennium ago a physicist under house arrest rewrote the scientific understanding of optics--the study of the behavior and properties of light.

With CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) now being fired up after its winter shutdown, physicists at the Geneva lab are gearing up for the first signs of the Higgs boson -- the never-before-seen particle that is one of the LHC's main goals.

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - A plan by almost 200 countries to step up efforts to fight climate change is set to miss a March deadline for starting work on a green fund to help developing nations, delegates said on Wednesday. [More]

Device approved in Europe; American involved in clinical trial says he can see shapes, tell light from dark while using gadget

Group urges governments to crack down on legal drugs made my tweaking chemical structure of well-known illegal narcotics

The Business process outsourcing service are the most sought after services today. Most of the big companies are outsourcing some of the services which they refer to as no-core and concentrating on the core functions of the companies. The Business ...

Theories about Stonehenge have historically tended to regard it as a stand-alone monument. But an increasingly well-supported view holds that Stonehenge was just part of a much larger ceremonial landscape, as this article in the March issue of Scientific American explains

With the click of a mouse, archaeologist Vince Gaffney proudly summons up a vision of an ancient landscape.

Last month, I wrote about the EcoDog home power monitoring system , which lets you see how much electricity your house is pulling, circuit by circuit. Apart from being fun for energy geeks like me who have an insatiable appetite for data, the device lets you discover patterns in your power consumption you might never have known about and that are burning up your money. Soon afterwards, I got a call from EcoDog's competitor Powerhouse Dynamics

On February 16th, IBM’s super computer, named Watson, won a three day Jeopardy match against two human Jeopardy champions. What gave Watson an edge over human competitors is that Watson is designed to answer a question in just three seconds , resulting in Watson consistently buzzing in faster more often than humans. But Watson’s AI is not perfect.

Imagine losing your sight for 20 years, and then starting to get it back; Jon LaPook on a new medical miracle

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Lithium spontaneously combusts in air, yet the battery in your computer--and any of the stacks in the new breed of electric vehicles--is made from it. Lithium even burns in water, which is too bad because a lithium-water battery could be both cheap and powerful.

It's a week of magic and wonder; a week of little sleep and nonstop conversation; a week of sublimating the ego to explore and understand the brilliance of others; a week to feel small in the face of the human propensity for creativity. It's the week of course of...well, the truth is the description could fit both the TED conference and the annual Burning Man festival. At first glance, there is little to connect these two happenings other than, perhaps, their general cultural significance

Wondering exactly what your employees are doing all day? Well, at least half their time is spent on e-mail.

I recently did something that will sound really stupid. I bought an iPad literally days before the release of the iPad 2. I have no regrets, however