Science & Tech

Ever since pharmaceutical giant Pfizer promised to cure erectile dysfunction once and for all with its blue pills containing the drug sildenafil citrate, spammers have tried to tap into male anxiety by offering prescription-free sales of unapproved "generic" Viagra and clones such as Cialis soft tabs.

Less than a month after the confirmation that Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk's cloning results were falsified, another case of scientifc fraud was discovered. What should be the role of scientific journals in policing fraud?

Cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and respiratory changes induced by different types of music in musicians and non-musicians: the importance of silence

Apple yesterday unveiled its latest addition to the iPod line, the iPod nano. The announcement came yesterday at a special music event hosted by Apple, held in the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco. The iPod nano replaces the similar iPod Mini in the iPod family. The iPod nano's maximum capacity is 2GB smaller than that of the last version of the iPod Mini, which held 6GB for the same price of $249.

The state of Massachusetts unveiled plans to officially end use of Microsoft Office, instead switching to an open document format currently implemented by many open source groups.

Microsoft Corp. has acquired voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) provider Teleo Inc., on August 30, for an undisclosed sum. Teleo was founded in 2003, in San Francisco, USA.

An international team of scientists has completed a rough draft of the DNA of our closest primate relative, the chimpanzee, and made a comprehensive comparison with the human genetic blueprint.

We have all played our share of bad super-hero games. Well, I want to start of by letting you know that the Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction is not one of those. In fact it is polished and incredibly fun.

A Tuesday service cutoff deadline in the United States for tens of thousands of VoIP customers who failed to reply to a service limitation notification from their provider was extended by 30 days, to September 28.

A study accepted for publication by the British Journal of Psychology conclude that men are on average five points ahead on IQ tests.

Authorities in Morocco and Turkey have arrested two men blamed for unleashing a computer worm that disrupted networks across the United States last week.

The deadline for a compromise between Sony and Toshiba in the battle over the next generation DVD format is drawing closer as studios start planning their Christmas releases.

Google today released Google Talk in beta, an Instant Messaging (IM) and Voice over IP (VoIP) product using the Jabber protocol.

The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says the long-term outlook for the healing of the Earth's ozone layer is good.

Archaelogists say they have found a 1.8 million-year-old Homo erectus skull in Georgia, the oldest such skull to be found in Europe.