Chris Anderson:
It’s not news that the main reason the movie and television industries are wary of BitTorrent is that they’re freaked out by the music industry’s experience with piracy.

Taking his seat in his chambers, the judge faced the
opposing lawyers. “So,” he said, “I have been presented, by
both of you, with a bribe.”

The first full map of where the world’s birds live reveals their diversity ‘hotspots’ and will help to focus conservation efforts.

Japan’s space agency plans to launch an arrow-shaped airplane at twice the speed of sound high over the Australian outback as early as next month in a crucial test of the country’s push to develop a supersonic successor to the retired Concorde.

Ontrack Data Recovery unveiled its 2004 list of the 10 strangest and funniest computer mishaps.

Dave Taylor:
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Please keep reading for a special discount code and lots more information about the event…

An American and a Chinese look at an object differently, says a study that tracked the eye movements of two groups of students while they looked at photographs.

Cornell University engineers have developed a switch that uses water droplets to create adhesive bonds nearly as strong as aluminum.

North Carolina researchers say a new drug has temporarily improved performance and reversed the effects of sleep deprivation in monkeys.

Perhaps as soon as October, a Long March rocket will thrust a spaceship into Earth orbit carrying two Chinese astronauts for a five-day mission.

At the heart of the debate over intelligent design is this question: Can a scientific explanation of the history of life include the actions of an unseen higher being?

We humans aren’t the only ones who want to fit in. Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees, too, preferentially adopt their fellow chimps’ way of doing things.

The last two years have seen the virtual transformation of the global music industry due to physical and online piracy, falling sales of CDs, and the rise of legal downloads and portable music players such as the iPod.