Even if the “Underwear Bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had exploded his device on Christmas day, 2009, the Airbus A330 would have survived, according to an experiment conducted by a BBC documentary team.
Some chickens have sexual-identity issues, waddling around with half-male and half-female plumage. Now researchers have figured out the cause of the gender-confusing traits: Half of their bodies are full of female sex cells, while the other half contains mostly male cells.
Score one more for Einstein. A new study has confirmed his theory of general relativity works on extremely large scales.
Conan O’Brien decided last week to pick Killen as the only person he would follow on Twitter, turning the 19-year-old’s life upside down.
Two years after receiving its first deposits, a “doomsday” seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world’s most diverse repository of crop seeds, the vault’s operators announced Thursday.
Last year, Palm thought it had all the pieces for a turnaround in the market it pioneered: A new CEO known for making the iPod a household name, a sleek new smart phone called the Pre and fresh, intuitive operating software.
Google expects an outcome soon from its talks with China over a censorship and hacking dispute, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors have charged a former Transportation Security Administration employee with attempting to sabotage terror watch list computers and by attempting to introduce a virus into the computer system, according to news sources.
A global Internet oversight agency is reopening discussions about whether to create a “.xxx” domain name. It would be an online red-light district where porn sites can set up shop away from the wandering eyes of children and teenagers.
March 10, 2010 – 11:57 pm
The new site recasts MySpace more strongly around its music and media content, with features such as the ability to listen to a music playlist based on songs that other MySpace users are sharing in their stream of updates.