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There are now 100,000 iPad apps, a new look for Gmail, the mysterious Hamptons ATM millionaire, and more.

The Book of Fungi: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World by Peter Roberts and Shelley Evans. University of Chicago Press, 2011 [More]

LINDAU, Germany--A 93-year-old Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine received a standing ovation from hundreds of scientists June 30 at the end of a speech in which he urged the world's young people to take measures to control runaway population growth in order to resolve related ills that have resulted from humans' remarkable evolutionary success as a species. [More]

By swapping one superconducting material for another, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found a practical way to boost the efficiency of the world's fastest single-photon detector, while also extending light sensitivity to longer wavelengths. The new tungsten-silicon alloy could make the ultrafast detectors more practical for use in quantum communications and computing systems, experiments testing the nature of reality, and emerging applications such as remote sensing.

Engineers who get too hung up on perfecting a prototype often lose sight of the bigger picture and waste precious development time. Here are a few ways you can speed up your prototyping process to get your invention or product to market faster. One of the most famous stories of prototyping done quickly, cheaply and spot-on came from the inventor of the cyclone vacuum

While it's a disease that only sickens animals, its effects have been felt for centuries, and its elimination could mean wonders for the developing world. One of the greatest scourges of human history is no more

Jack Dorsey's Square is on a ($100 million) tear this week, but the competition is heating up--and they have bigger plans for a wireless payment future that could arrive as soon as next year. Square just received a $100 million cash injection and is now valued at a cool $1 billion

Earlier this month, scientists for the Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance presented new research that predicted the extinction of the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes ellioti ), the world's rarest chimpanzee subspecies, within as little as 20 years.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Right now, many researchers around the world are working on ways to move away from electronics-dominated computing systems. There are a number of ideas about how this can be accomplished

It's not just floods and fires. A new interactive map shows you all the insidious and sometimes invisible problems facing the planet, from food shortages to super poison ivy.

Sand is a cheap and easy to find water filter. It's also not a very good water filter

A project of the Long Now Foundation, the aim is to make sure we preserve the knowledge contained in dying languages: "If languages are our how-to guides for living on planet Earth, we are handing our descendants an encyclopedia with almost all of the pages ripped out." The Long Now Foundation--currently breaking ground in Texas at the future site of its first monument-sized 10,000-year clock --is pursuing several programs in addition to the clock. One of these, the Rosetta Project, takes as its daunting mission the documentation of every human language currently in use; some 7,000 in total, the majority of which are in danger of disappearing without a trace. Directing this ambitious venture is Laura Welcher, a linguist who has specialized in building archival resources for indigenous North American languages.

For Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad tablet, which heads to market on Friday, the company avoided using Android at all costs . Well, actually, at a very specific cost: HP spent $1.2 billion last year to acquire Palm, which helped develop the TouchPad's slick software, WebOS.

Sunday, August 07 Corporate partnerships come and go -- unless you go into business with your best friend. To celebrate Friendship Day, we've rounded up our favorite (and most lucrative) friendships. Whether entertainers or tech geeks, these buddies mean business

Yes, Hollywood Stars can live up (or down) to their stereotypes. But they can also be invaluable in promoting a good cause.