May 24 2008
If you own a PC, you\’re either still using the pre-installed Internet Explorer or you wised up and installed Firefox. If you\’re a Mac owner, you\’re either still using the pre-installed Safari or you wised up and installed Firefox....
May 24 2008
A team of researchers say that in spite of all the media attention given to the Arctic region and polar bears, species living in the tropics may face an even greater risk as the world warms up. Shrinking polar ice has concerned ecologists that polar...
May 23 2008
US Senator Edward M. Kennedy will not give the commencement speech Sunday at Wesleyan University, but he has found a replacement who will also make headlines — Barack Obama.
May 23 2008
Scientists are finding that the same chemical in your stomach that causes hunger also changes how your brain perceives food, as this ScienCentral News video explains.
May 23 2008
Getting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true.
May 23 2008
Cuba Thursday called on the United States to respond to accusations that Washington\’s top diplomat on the island passed funds onto dissidents.
May 21 2008
In A major embarrassment to the UPA government, Union home minister Shivraj Patil has compared the case of Sarabjit Singh, a death convict in Pakistan being defended by India as a case of mistaken identity, with that of Parliament attack convict...
May 21 2008
Senior government officials have leaked detailed information about a database of 8 million Americans targeted for detention in case of a declared national emergency. Called “Main Core,” the database’s origins date back to the 1980s...
May 21 2008
One big message from the night: Senator Clinton is increasingly playing the gender card to make her case. Her speech showed that her message is partly aspirational, that she is fighting to break the highest and hardest glass ceiling. It is also based in...
May 19 2008
First, the Department of Energy released a report that confirmed what the wind industry has already claimed: wind could power 20% of the United State’s energy needs by 2030. Even with growing energy demands, our ample wind resources could meet...