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The Hong Kong International Art Fair started strong in 2008 and never lost momentum. Its fifth edition, dubbed Art HK 12 and running from May 17 through 20 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, boasts more than 260 exhibiting galleries from all over the world, including venerable New ...

Bot Vid: The Naval Robot That Fights Fires The Navy has a big plan to put smart gesture-controlled bipedla firebots onto ships. These droids are able to scramble through compartments designed for human access, so they'd be invaluable in a crisis, and they can handle fires that humans cannot. The plan needs much research, and the Octavia bot shows a step along the way.

Rob Auerbach, founder of Louisville-based Candyrific, knows what kids want. Rob Auerbach knows what kids want. Candyrific, his Louisville-based company, manufactures sweets in attention-grabbing packages that often feature plastic cartoon characters, battery-operated fans, flashing lights, or other doodads.

From April 13 to 15, more than 200 book dealers from around the world will flock to the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, bearing rare and collectible works that range from a first-edition copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby ($200,000) to the first modern atlas, including the earliest ...

On World Autism Awareness Day, experts say the best thing parents can do is educate themselves about the early warning signs. Ines Ferre reports

Bob Schieffer says we used to wait until after the World Series to take a White House race seriously, but now Fall comes early

How many students does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent lightbulb? Tony Anderson, Morehouse College ’08, can answer that.

Climate change is bringing more droughts, heat waves and powerful rainstorms, shifts that will require governments to change how they cope with natural disasters to protect human lives and the world economy, a new U.N. report says.

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two pions, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest supercomputers. This is the same subatomic particle decay explored in a 1964 Nobel Prize-winning experiment performed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), which revealed the first experimental evidence of charge-parity (CP) violation — a lack of symmetry between particles and their corresponding antiparticles that may hold the answer to the question "Why are we made of matter and not antimatter?"

F-1 engines (red cones) on the Apollo 8 first stage. Credit: NASA Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO and one of the richest people in the world, has an abiding interest in the future of space exploration. His start-up Blue Origin is building suborbital launch vehicles and has received millions in NASA funding to develop next-generation spaceflight technologies.

A $95-million rescue package for the world-class Australian Synchrotron research centre will ensure local scientists can “remain at the forefront of the highly competitive world of fundamental and applied research”, scientists said today.

The world population currently stands at about 7 billion people, and the United Nations expects that to grow to 9 or 10 billion by the end of the century.

By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - The world is close to reaching tipping points that will make it irreversibly hotter, making this decade critical in efforts to contain global warming, scientists warned on Monday. Scientific estimates differ but the world's temperature looks set to rise by six degrees Celsius by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions are allowed to rise uncontrollably. As emissions grow, scientists say the world is close to reaching thresholds beyond which the effects on the global climate will be irreversible, such as the melting of polar ice sheets and loss of rainforests

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Co, the operator of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima power plant, shut its last operating nuclear reactor on Monday for regular maintenance, leaving just one running reactor supplying Japan's creaking power sector. Japan has 54 reactors, but since the tsunami last March triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years at the Fukushima plant, it has been unable to restart any reactors that have undergone maintenance due to public safety concerns. Tepco said it shutdown the No.6 reactor at its Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant, the world's biggest nuclear power plant, raising concerns about a power crunch this summer when electricity demand peaks due to hot weather.

If your beta product isn't ready for prime time, the last thing you need is attention from the media. As someone with a marketing background, I've always been overly zealous to make noise about what I'm working on even before the product is entirely ready for public consumption