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By Pracha Hariraksapitak BANGKOK (Reuters) - Floodwater swamped a new area of Thailand's capital on Wednesday as some shops started rationing food and the prime minister warned that parts of Bangkok could be flooded for up to a month. [More]

For decades computer scientists have strived to build machines that can calculate faster than the human brain and store more information. [More]

Supercomputers can store more information than the human brain and can calculate a single equation faster, but even the biggest, fastest supercomputers in the world cannot match the overall processing power of the brain. And they are nowhere near as compact or energy efficient . Nevertheless, IBM is trying to simulate the human brain with its own cutting-edge supercomputer, called Blue Gene

[Audio from launch: “We’re ready to go with the liftoff, and we’ll be back with you after Soyuz has cleared the tower.] [More]

The nearly three weeks since Steve Jobs's death has been like an extended tribute to the first global head of state. The memorial ceremonies worldwide, the special commemorative issues and, today, the release of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs , all bear testament to the Apple founder's legacy

Three members o f Scientific American ‘s editorial staff are joining the conversation this week at the Compass Summit , a conference created to help leaders focus on global challenges and economic opportunities facing their organizations and society. The conference is designed to build on last year’s Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe. Compass was organized by a team that includes Brent Schlender, a long-time foreign correspondent at Fortune and The Wall Street Journal ; Peter Petre, former executive editor at Fortune ; and Carolyn Jones and Michael Christman, co-founders of the 100 People Foundation

To become a world bathed in oceans of water and habitable, Earth first had to take a beating. A popular hypothesis holds that icy comets and asteroids pummeling early Earth delivered the planet's water from the icy outer reaches of the solar system.

From the Andes to the Himalayas, scientists are starting to question exactly how much glaciers contribute to river water used downstream for drinking and irrigation.

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By Duncan Graham-Rowe of Nature magazine The first drug to show signs of not just halting multiple sclerosis (MS), but actually reversing the nerve damage caused by the condition, has taken a significant step towards clinical approval.

"Where there are humans, you’ll find flies, [More]

Filmmaker Kate Schermerhorn cuts the cake with her second husband. The couple started filming "After Happily Ever After" together on their honeymoon

In a 2007 Vanity Fair article Christopher Hitchens asked: Why are men, taken on average and as a whole, funnier than women? Well a recent study finds that men might have a tiny edge over women in producing humor but the gap is too small to account for the stereotype. [More]