How many of you have actually used a slide rule? The slide rule was a simple yet powerful and important tool for engineers and scientists before the days of calculators (let alone PCs). In fact, several people we know still prefer to use them. In the interest of preserving this icon EngCom has created a […]

Astronomers are still speculating as to what could have caused an abnormally strong five millisecond burst to be detected six years ago when it completely saturated their recording equipment. The burst was so bright that at the time it was first recorded it was dismissed as man-made radio interference. It put out a huge amount […]

Six in 10 marketing executives put at least one-half of their media spending into traditional channels, according to a Gundersen Partners survey. About 45% of respondents allocated less than 10% of their budgets to new media.

Some film industry pundits feel Hollywood is reeling down. The key revenue streams that have traditionally driven the Hollywood economy—box office receipts and DVD sales and rentals—have hit a plateau.

Materials researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), together with colleagues from IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have pushed the measurement of thin films to the edge—literally—to produce the first data on how the edges of metallic thin films contribute to their magnetic properties.

Toxic loans and toxic mortgages, the ones designed to extract the maximum amount of money from a customer before they are pushed off the cliff into default, are now under increased scrutiny because the current system of allowing the roosters to guard the henhouse is starting to tank the national economy. Sen. Hillary Clinton is the […]

The two-headed red slider turtle has turned up at a reptile centre in Pennsylvania, where owners are amazed by its freak appearance.
The unnamed curiosity has two heads on opposite sides of a single shell, as well as six legs and a combined tail.

A Chinese woman who killed her lover with a rat poison-laced kiss when she suspected him of being unfaithful has been sentenced to death, a newspaper said Thursday.

Attacking several tons of woolly mammoth with stone-tipped spears must have taken extraordinary courage — and ancient people left paintings to prove they did it.

Varsity football players in Tolono, Ill., wear helmets with electronic encoder modules to detect blows to the head that may cause injury.

A set of pearls once belonging to Marie Antoinette and taken to Britain by a friend for safekeeping will go on sale in December, and are expected to fetch up to $800,000.

Coloradans, toss back a cold one in celebration of this latest honor.  Last year, Colorado officially became the largest beer-producing state in the nation, an honor not held by the state since 1990, according to the Beer Institute in Washington, D.C.

Experts who study malpractice cases and autopsy reports say certain diseases are misdiagnosed over and over again. It’s worth knowing what they are so you won’t be a victim.

Most of us love the familiar. Whether we realize it or not, we put a lot of work into ensuring that certain things in our lives remain constant. This personal “comfort zone” is the invisible, but very real area that defines the boundaries of what we know and understand. By staying within this comfort zone […]