A northeastern Pennsylvania school district has settled a lawsuit alleging that a principal illegally search…
Month: September 2010
If You’ve Got to Have a White iPhone 4 Right Now…
The white iPhone 4 is set to be released in 2011, but that does not…
Programming Lessons From Linux Geeks in the Trenches
There’s nothing like the school of hard knocks to teach a person a thing or…
IE9 Aims to Out-Chrome Chrome
Microsoft on Wednesday released the open beta version of Internet Explorer 9, a browser tightly…
Gender gap in spatial ability can be reduced through training
A new study describes an intervention that is effective in eliminating the gender gap in…
Carbon nanotubes twice as strong as once thought
Carbon nanotubes — those tiny particles poised to revolutionize electronics, medicine, and other areas —…
White Americans living longer with muscular dystrophy than African-Americans
A new study shows that white men and boys are living longer with muscular dystrophy…
Robotic catheter could improve treatment of heart condition
Atrial fibrillation is a heart disorder that affects more than two million Americans, and is…
Link to autism in boys found in missing DNA
New research provides further clues as to why Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affects four times…
‘Friendship paradox’ may help predict spread of infectious disease
Researchers used a basic feature of social networks to study the 2009 flu epidemic. The…