For a long time now, lawyers and any serious law students have been bound to paid services like LexusNexis for access to case law, but that is slowly changing. Carl Malamud has posted free electronic copies of every U.S. Supreme Court decision and Court of Appeals ruling since 1950, 1.8 million rulings in all, online […]

The
number of online videos delivered through professionally-branded sites
grew by over 50% in 2007 to 33.5 billion streams, according to Accustream iMedia Research.

The Pew Research Center
has projected that, if current trends continue, the US population will
rise to 438 million in 2050 from 296 million in 2005. Immigrants and
their US-born descendants were projected to account for 82% of the
population increase.

A new laser analyzer might be able to help doctors detect cancer,
asthma or other diseases by sampling a patient’s breath, researchers
reported on Tuesday. The device uses mirrors to bounce the laser’s light back and forth
until it has touched every molecule a patient exhales in a single
breath, the team reported in the journal Optics Express.

WishingFish’s BubbleScrubber is a dishwashing brush with a built-in bubble-blower.

Bruce Sterling called designer Mieke Gerritzen’s presentation at the LIFT conference in Geneva "the freakiest, most-out there" presentation at the event. Gerritzen’s talk is on "Next Nature," the way that corporatism and nature will mesh more and more as time goes by — think of butterflies gengineered with corporate logos.

The science that allows a gecko to cling to a ceiling has been harnessed for use in medicine.

Reliance Communications and
HDFC Bank announced the launch of India’s first virtual credit card.
The virtual card will do away with the need to physically carry the
credit card and would allow mobile phones to double as a payment instrument.

Archaeologist Jacques Reinhold and his wife discovered the oldest proof of human sacrifice in Africa!

In a surprise move, the European Commission has revealed plans to extend the term of copyright protection for European performers from 50 years to 95 years.