Topic: Technology

A newly released American study suggests the public often rejects the opinions of scientific experts. . . . . The public tends not to trust ...

NASA plans first-ever sun mission

NASA says it's developing a car-sized satellite that by "no later than 2018" will plunge into the sun's outer atmosphere for an up-close study of ...
Peter Cus writes "Cluny Lace, an English lacemaking manufacturer, has reverted to 19th-Century Leavers machines in order to stay competitive. These...
destinyland writes "In the Central African Republic, broadband internet service costs 3891% of the average monthly income. 'Put another way, a...
Twitter has over 145 million registered users and more people are using mobile devices to access the microblogging service, according to co-founder ...
If Nevada gubernatorial candidate Eugene "Gino" DiSimone gets his way $25 will buy you the right to drive up to 90mph for a day. DiSimone estimates...
pickens writes "The LA Times reports that 84-year-old Cuban ex-President Fidel Castro consumes 200 to 300 news items a day on the World Wide Web...
A Canadian team will share a lead role in creating an instrument to analyze the levels of methane and oxygen in Mars' atmosphere, potentially ...

Canadian to command space station.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield will become the first Canadian to command the International Space Station, Gary Goodyear, the federal minister of state ...

Oil platform explodes in Gulf of Mexico

The opening scene was all too familiar. Black smoke rising from a burning oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico and workers plucked from the sea. But ...