Fracking boom sucks away precious water from beneath the ground, leaving cattle dead, farms bone-dry and people thirsty Beverly McGuire saw the warning signs before the town well went dry: sand in ...
Ladar Levison, 32, has spent ten years building encrypted email service Lavabit, attracting over 410,000 users. When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was revealed to be one of those users in July, Dallas-based ...
Passengers could soon be blessed with silent advertisements from train windows. The advertisements are to be transmitted via vibration of the glass traveling through the skull bone, directly into the brain of ...
About 57 light years from Earth, astronomers have discovered a large new planet, colored a deep magenta. It’s the second planet whose color has been directly observed by astronomers, the first being HD ...
SPAIN is protesting to Britain again about a certain rocky outcrop at the neck of the Mediterranean. Gibraltar, a 2.6 square mile (6.7 square kilometre) peninsular that is home to about 30,000 ...
Twitter is powerful. In just 140 characters, users have organized political movements, ruined reputations of the famous, and reported first on timely events. Though you may have no desire to cause cataclysmic ...
LONDON — It looked like a burger. It smelled like a burger. It tasted, well, almost like a burger. The first lab-grown beef hamburger was cooked and eaten in London on Monday. ...
Imagine the government passed a law requiring all citizens to carry a tracking device. Such a law would immediately be found unconstitutional. Yet we all carry mobile phones. If the National Security ...
There are increasing reports of an imminent helium shortage, but why should this be a concern? What is helium used for, apart from balloons? Quite a lot, as it happens. Helium supplies ...
WHEN Estonia regained its independence in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, less than half its population had a telephone line and its only independent link to the outside world was a Finnish ...
