Science & Tech

We can choose from many designs and types. Of course, the type you purchase all depends on how you want to listen to your music, how much money you're willing to spend, and a biggy...how much comfort you want.

Facial attractiveness played a major role in shaping human evolution, as studies on our fossil ancestors have shown our choice of sexual partner has shaped the human face.

An expedition led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to a remote corner of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has uncovered unique forests which, so far, have been found to contain six animal species new to science: a bat, a rodent, two shrews, and two frogs.

Despite marketing claims, parents who want to give their infants a boost in learning language probably should limit the amount of time they expose their children to DVDs and videos such as “Baby Einstein” and “Brainy Baby.”

In addressing privacy concerns raised by those folks who don't necessarily want their word processing software sifting their communications and reporting to a server, Microsoft product manager Melissa Stern said the recently announced freebie Works 9 SE won't scan content for advertising keywords.

A botnet is a network of zombie computers controlled by a single entity. The term is a portmanteau of the phrase "Robot Network". Usually, the zombies in use of a botnet are compromised computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that have been infected with some sort of malware.

Have we become the fools on the hill when it comes to what is happening around us? I think many of us have and that’s what the government counts on to keep information from us that they deem as too sensitive for public consumption. That may be the real explanation for a series of bizarre events that have occurred over the decade. These events may involve Alien life forms.

Fingerprints are the oldest and most commonly accepted form of biometrics. This article explains why they are so popular nowadays, how they are captured by fingerprint readers and the two widely used fingerprint recognition processes, called verification and identification.

However difficult we may perceive life to be without the convenience of modern technology we are so used to, it is not entirely impossible. Take the Amish- they willingly shun all forms of modern technology, interpreting it as an invasion into their traditional life.

NASA officials say they are ready to roll the Space Shuttle Endeavour to the launch pad in Florida in preparation for its scheduled launch to the International Space Station next month.

This past weekend concerts took place around the world to focus attention on the problem of global warming, Al Gore says is the greatest single threat facing humankind today. Most of the world's scientists agree. Al Gore and scientists who wrote the UN report on climate change say the debate is over and the time has come to act. But some prominent climate scientists are objecting to that, claiming that the debate has yet to even begin.

The Ruby language and Rails framework have been gaining rapid prominence and fast becoming development platforms of choice for many Web 2.0 applications and sites. This rapid rise is raising questions on the abilities and applicability of Java technologies for particular kind of products.

With the "ASP loophole" apparently wide open in the last draft of the General Public License, will cash contributions be a future method of keeping companies from taking a free ride?

Before we can understand digital audio, we must first have a very general understanding of how sound occurs naturally. Sound is actually a mechanical wave that is propagating through the air (typically, but it can travel through other mediums as well). A basic visual illustration of sound is the sine wave.

Global warming is being marketed today like Y2K was marketed just prior to the twenty-first century. Will it turn out that dire predictions of global warming are going to be as accurate as the Y2K predictions were?