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(PhysOrg.com) -- A discovery by researchers working at the Spallation Neutron Source upends long held assumptions about the microscopic behavior of materials in an equilibrium condition. The findings could influence further research in advanced materials, communication and optical systems, and thermoelectric materials that use differences in temperature to produce electricity.

It's the source of a long-standing cosmological quandary. Galaxies or black holes: Which came first?

Health officials are unable to pinpoint the source of a "super toxic" strain of e. coli spreading throughout Europe

Phishing is not hacking. Users were tricked more than violated ... and other lessons from yesterday's made-up story.

No, my source for this story is not "The Onion". Jonathan Kaplan, of Flip Camera fame, has a new startup in the works; a grilled cheese restaurant chain called "The Melt". I know what you're thinking

Uploading your music to the cloud isn't as simple as you might think. As more data is stored online, the cloud takes more and more energy to maintain, forcing companies to get into the business of getting power as cheaply as possible

We are looking for a Back-end Programmer to join the Fast Company development group in downtown New York City. You consider yourself a programmer, but could easily get a job as a system administrator

Blood spatters are telltale marks of violent crimes, and have captured the public imagination in shows like Dexter, CSI, and Bones--shows whose cool tech may be less based in reality than special effect. For instance, it's only just now been worked out how to determine the height from which blood droplets fell.

Did you ever wonder what you and your childhood friends would be when you grew up? Could I have predicted that my rebellious attitude would lead me to form my own company ? Or what about my friend, Paul Brooks

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Robots, robots everywhere, and soon they'll begin to think. The tech behind our future android assistants evolves every minute. Here's the latest

Coal Cares was just a parody of what it would look like if the coal industry targeted kids. But the coal industry's actual marketing to children, (with an assist from Scholastic), is much more insidious.

Apple and Google testified yesterday before a committee examining smartphone user privacy, particularly regarding location tracking. The first conclusion: Senators don't understand the tech, nor do most people.

Will Apple pull the old chip switcheroo again, and embrace ARM CPUs on its Macs instead of Intel silicon? You bet it might, say new rumors , because it could mean your MacBook lasts pretty much all day on a charge. Only a handful of years ago, Apple abandoned its long relationship with IBM and the PowerPC line of processors for shiny new Intel silicon.