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People were surprised when all the major unions suddenly stepped up as being against patent reform. A lawsuit shows there was a lot going on behind the scenes...
Football is a game, and when one is playing, he always tries to cheat a little bit. So says FIFA president Sepp Blatter, now facing a leadership rival in old pal Mohamed bin Hammam.
Politics can be a pounding vocation but it is more than a lust for recognition and power. It can be a profession marked by candor and service.
When I was a kid, I never thought of telling a bully: "Don't mess with me. I've got a quirky sense of humor, a great singing voice, and I know how to code!" But then I saw Jimmy Wong.
For the first time viable mouse sperm have been grown outside the testes. If the technique can be repeated with human sperm, it could lead to new ways of treating infertile men.
In line with national objectives outlined by President Obama to improve building efficiency by twenty percent in the next ten years, entrepreneurs can take advantage of ample funding.
A U.S. national lab plans to unveil a "Titan" supercomputer in 2012 that would dwarf the computing speeds of the latest record holder from China, as well as all previous competitors.
Google's controversial plan to digitise millions of books and create the world's biggest digital library has been shelved by a New York judge who said the deal was neither fair nor reasonable.
Researchers have come up with a simple, low-cost way of studying cellular proteins using a laser. The method may help to develop new drugs intended to treat disease in humans.
Sourcing and transporting goods can be the most overlooked—and inefficient—parts of how a business is structured. Here's how to examine and improve the social impact of a supply chain.
A new cell phone app developed by Microsoft researchers uses overlapping snapshots to build a photo-realistic 3-D model that can be spun around and viewed from any angle.
Researcher at Rice University, Krishna Palem has found that "pruning" away the little-used circuits on microchips can double the energy efficiency and computing speed of the chips.
Credit card and technology companies have talked about mobile wallets—mobile phones that work as credit cards—for well over a decade. But now the pieces are starting to fall into place.
Robert Lemos tells the story of Biogen Idec, a biotechnology firm that moved its business into the cloud and learned lessons about flexibility, finance and data security along the way.
When the universe came into being a mere 13.75 billion years ago, its origin may have been so weird, due to expanding dimensions, that we can't even imagine what it would have been like.
An experiment carried out more than 50 years ago has revealed that volcanoes may have played a crucial role in the formation of the first organic building blocks of life on Earth.
Federal ethanol mandates that encourage its production are a major reason why food prices worldwide have reached record levels in the past several months, say some economists.
In the next two decades, nearly two-thirds of humanity will be living in cities. So how will urban centers across the world manage the increasing pressure being put on their water resources?
According to a new study, the next generation of space lasers could test for the existence of dimensions beyond the three we experience, perhaps solving some of physics' thorny problems.
First we created positrons, electrons' antimatter counterparts. Now, the newly-discovered antihelium-4 could tell us whether there are vast pockets of antimatter in our universe.