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Regular readers may recall the story of Charles Walling, the retired Seattle warehouseman whose struggle to get his printer to work with Windows Vista was documented in our story marking the Microsoft operating system\’s first year on the market.
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Preliminary U-M studies indicate that oral use of RU-486\’s companion drug misoprostol is safe, but vaginal use may undermine body\’s immune responses
In an approach that could become a new treatment for the 10 to 20 percent of people whose broken bones fail to heal, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have shown that transplantation of adult stem cells can improve healing...
DARPA goes on to say nature provides many examples of ChemBot features including mice, octopi, and insects, that readily traverse openings barely larger than their largest “hard” component, via a variety of reversible mechanisms.
Hillary is the only First Lady ever to run for president. And we have her to thank—as well as Obama—for the renewed energy American voters have for politics.
Making a virginity pledge may help some young people postpone the start of sexual activity, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
We have plenty of reasons to fetishize our food—not the least being that we\’ve always had so much of it.
Are we aliens? This question has come up due to a new result from studying meteorites, and is getting a lot of web-chatter. I figure I’d better get on this sooner rather than later!
It has been a source of enduring fascination for archaeologists and amateur Egyptologists everywhere: what exactly happened to the sarcophagus of Menkaure, one of Egypt\’s greatest Pharaohs? Now, more than 170 years after it was found and lost,...
Mike Gering, CEO of the start-up Global Solar, picks his way along his factory floor, tracing the convoluted path that his thin-film solar panels follow from birth to shipping truck.
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