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Television remote controls are evolving more than they have at any time in the past 60 years--but where we're going, we may not need them. The question of how remote controls may change in our smartphone and tablet era is actually moot. Forget evolving them from a crazy array of buttons to a smart touchscreen UI...the TV remote may be about to achieve its Nirvana, and dissappear into the ether

The annual PNC Christmas Price Index is a giant, interactive infographic on the price tag for The 12 Days of Christmas. The 12 Days of Christmas is the granddaddy of holiday memes. For centuries, the seasonally inclined have sung of that elaborate parade of presents that includes various fowl, prancing performers and, of course, five golden rings.

Two recent developments at the Advanced Photon Source explore paths to routine use of sub-meV x-rays to probe low-energy excitations in matter. The first is a remarkable experimental demonstration of an x-ray optical scheme that produces x-ray beams with sub-meV linewidths (FWHM) and elimination of the normal Lorentzian tails

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Neuroscience is proving what sales pros have long suspected: Customers decide with their emotions, not their brains. Neuroscience is the study of the nervous system. It's a big deal in the academic world—and it could end up being a big deal in the business world, too

The serene waters of sky pond, one of the most popular tourist attractions in northeastern Asia, belie the fact that it is nestled inside the crater of one of the region’s most dangerous volcanoes--a peak known as Changbai Mountain to the Chinese and Mount Paektu to Koreans. That 2,744-meter-tall volcano, which straddles the border between China and North Korea, last erupted in 1903 but has displayed signs of awakening in recent years.

Nuclear fusion drives the stars, including our sun. But on Earth, despite efforts dating to the 1940s, sustained and controlled fusion for electrical power production has never been realized

Why do millions mourn the death of Steve Jobs, a man they never met? Gawker curmudgeon Hamilton Nolan is right: "Steve Jobs was not God," read the headline to his recent post slamming those "whose remembrances have already taken on a quasi-religious tone" and advising them to "seek help." He was responding to the flood of grief that consumed the media, media watchers, and many others in the hours and days after Jobs' death was announced.

Apple co-founder Jobs was one of those people who kept topping himself, writes veteran technology journalist Lee Gomes. Here's a look back through Jobs's life as entrepreneur, designer, and ultimately, icon. Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple who pioneered the personal-computer industry and became an emblem of Internet-era culture, died Wednesday at the age of 56.

According to Twitter's VP of Engineering, the social site has seen more

Yesterday’s Amazon product extravaganza shows how much its slate business has become like Apple’s--and how much it hasn’t. The founder and CEO paced across the stage before a massive screen displaying the company’s achievements in recent years--skyrocketing sales of media and a heritage of innovative, beloved gadgets. Then he brandished the new wonder, showing its surprising features and teasing with questions along the lines of "what should we charge for it?" before naming an equally surprising low price.

Multilayer Laue lenses (MLLs) developed at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Advanced Photon Source (APS) focus high-energy x-rays so tightly they can detect objects as small as 16 nanometers in size, and are in principle capable of focusing well below 10 nanometers

While a quick source of capital, cash advances can be a gamble. Ask yourself these four questions before tapping into this source

On Thursday, the U.S. Postal Service issued a daunting public statement about its current financial woes, and possible changes to its infrastructure and services that would aim to save the snail mail organization some $3 billion a year.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ferromagnetic materials are key ingredients in vast arrays of technologies including wind turbines, computer hard-disks, credit card readers, and many more. Typically these magnets operate in moderate environments. But exposing a magnetic material to high heat or compressive stress usually destroys its magnetism because high temperatures and high compression induce agitation and mobility of unpaired electrons ("atomic compass"), destroying the correlated arrangement of atomic compasses across the solid needed to generate, or detect, magnetic fields