Revolutionary bike ‘too quiet’

The world’s first purpose-built hydrogen-powered bike could be fitted with an artificial “vroom” because of worries its silence might be...

Stars’ mass may have upper limit

The universe is full of stars, but there appears to be few really fat ones. Astronomers said Wednesday that there...

Penrose: The Answer’s Not 42

In 1998, Stephen Hawking laid 50-50 odds that the holy grail of physics, the elusive “theory of everything,” was less...

Firefox Market Share Grows, Internet Explorer Falls

The Mozilla Firefox web browser has increased its total global usage to 8.5% according to Onestat.com, a leading web analytics...

Refreshing Drinks of Fresh Air

As much as bullets or body armor, rations or radios, an army needs water to survive — especially when it’s...

‘Pack ice’ suggests frozen sea on Mars

A frozen sea, surviving as blocks of pack ice, may lie just beneath the surface of Mars, suggest observations from...

Gates announces stand-alone Internet Explorer release

Software giant Microsoft, in an apparent change in its previous policy, has announced that it will release a new version...

browsers gain momentum

It used to be that Internet Explorer, the one-size-fits-all Web browser bundled with every copy of Microsoft Windows, was enough...

Dolly’s creator to clone humans

The British scientist who created Dolly the sheep will embark on an attempt to clone human embryos after securing a...

Users Confuse Search Results, Ads

Only one in six users of internet search engines can tell the difference between unbiased search results and paid advertisements,...