The Nobel Museum opened in Stockholm in 2001 to mark the centennial of the Nobel Prizes. Museum designers stocked the cafe, called the Kafe Satir, with chairs designed after models found in...

Bowing to pressure from the Chinese government, Google has expanded its censorship of search results from IP addresses originating in China. Google has blocked articles on its news site on a...

The Edge Foundation proposes a thought-provoking question to select members of the scientific community once a year. They recently announced their sure-to-be controversial discussion for 2006:WHAT IS...

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp, a leading provider of telecommunications services in Japan, has developed a prototype of a device that controls the direction of human bipedal movement. A human...

A scathing report in the New York Times lambastes a US policy which is purported to belie itself as a purely beneficient program that sends used computer equipment to poor regions around the globe. In...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has uncovered a previously unknown code that laser printers imprint on documents which allow law enforcement entities to determine the serial number associated with...

Google has updated their privacy policy for the first time since July 1 2004. Notable differences from previous versions: 1) Google explicitly disclosed how they will apply collected user...

Medical researchers have released details of a proof-of-principle stem-cell extraction experiment that averts the ethical controversies styming research in a promising field. Creating five distinct...

After the unanimous Supreme Court ruling against Grokster on June 27, seven other popular file-sharing services received cease and desist orders from the RIAA. eDonkey, which reportedly has 3,000,000...

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