28 August 2008, 11:47 am
A photo posted to the Internet, a sharp-eyed trans-Atlantic friend, and email have combined to save a baby's life.... read more
28 August 2008, 10:39 am
Over the past two decades, Michael Dickinson has been interviewed by reporters hundreds of times about his research on the biomechanics of insect flight.... read more
28 August 2008, 10:38 am
There is a great deal of concern about the effects of global warming on the Greenland ice sheet but scientists at the University of Bristol and the University of Leeds have taken the discussion to a deeper level - namely in stating that only changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide are able to explain ... read more
28 August 2008, 7:44 am
If you happened across a Bloomberg release at 4:27 PM EDT yesterday, you might have gasped. Apple stock might have crashed. But no, Steve Jobs is not dead.... read more
27 August 2008, 7:49 pm
You'll recall I wrote that a Swedish newspaper took an iPhone to a lab for tests on its antenna. However, noting that the iPhone used in the tests had been performing well, the paper asked for some volunteers with misbehaving iPhones, so they could repeat the test.... read more
27 August 2008, 3:59 pm
Muscles are capable of providing an amazing amount of stability to the spine; a normal human spine can experience compressive loads of up to about 1,350 pounds during more demanding everyday tasks (9), and almost 4,000 pounds during something like Olympic weightlifting (2).... read more