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Patch Tuesday is here, and this month is a whopper. Microsoft has unleashed 17 new security bulletins , addressing a total of 64 separate vu...

It looks like the future of space travel and exploration belongs to the commercial sector: spaceship-virgin-terminal

Not all of the military's robot research goes into creating unfeeling killing machines. Some of them are here to heal, like the Navy...

Researchers are going bananas in the quest to build cleaner, greener cars. Brazilian scientists have developed a way of using fibers from ba...

Not today, to be sure, nor tomorrow. But to read the newly released census data on the Lone Star State is to understand that Texas, the linc...

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — The U.S. military is applying an ancient Chinese healing technique to the top modern battlefield injury for...

"To put our findings in perspective, the 6.4*10 18 instructions per second that human kind can carry out on its general-purpose comput...

The City Paper, a small alternative Washington newspaper, published an article detailing dozens of Snyder's inept and unpopular actions ...

There's the shopworn military cliche about every soldier being a sensor . And then there's Darpa's out-there project to shrink t...

A malware-laced e-mail that spoofed seasons greetings from The White House siphoned gigabytes of sensitive documents from dozens of victims ...

Global spam volumes have fallen precipitously in the past two months, thanks largely to the cessation of junk e-mail from Rustock – until r...

It's too late to stop WikiLeaks from publishing thousands more classified documents, nabbed from the Pentagon's secret network. But ...

ActiveWords is a simple, intuitive macro-program that allows you to create brief words or shortcuts to substitute text (up to 32kb in size);...

A strange, salty lake in California has yielded an equally strange bacterium that thrives on arsenic and redefines life as we know it, resea...

IBM researchers have made a breakthrough in using pulses of light to accelerate data transfer between chips, something they say could boost ...

The parade of storms that pummels the western fringe of the North Atlantic every year just got a bit more predictable. Scientists say they h...

How can EVs become more attractive to consumers price-wise? One of the ways can be from the realistic prospect of free 'fuel.' Imagi...

Robots are already vacuuming our carpets, heading into combat and assisting docs on medical procedures. Get ready for a next generation of ...

It looks like a piece of riot-control gear. It's got a computerized in-board targeting system. It can kill someone from 2,300 feet away,...

You can now comment on my blog posts if you like. I didn't know until recently that Blogspot was changed so that blogs were set to a de...

A sniper crouches near an open window and zooms in on his target, who sits a half-mile away. He peers through a scope and holds his breath, ...

In the spring, the futurists at Darpa rethought troop transport. Instead of adding armor or changing the shape to deflect bomb blasts, the a...

Cyber crooks stole just shy of $1 million from a satellite campus of The University of Virginia last week, KrebsOnSecurity.com has learned....

Adobe warned today that hackers appear to be exploiting a previously unknown security hole in its PDF Reader and Acrobat programs. In an adv...

The federal agency in charge of protecting other agencies from computer intruders was found riddled with hundreds of high-risk security hole...

Gallery Place business owners in the Chinatown area of Washington DC are using a new approach to chasing away loitering teenagers: zapping t...

An abundant metal with vast energy potential could quickly wean the world off oil, if only Western political leaders would muster the will t...

I have been on the waiting list for two terrific apartments for several months. It took so long for me to find an apartment because I'm...

The New York Times reports that researchers have found a spinal-fluid test can be 100 percent accurate in identifying patients with signific...

That's the promise of a research breakthrough from Intel that combines silicon chips and lasers to transmit data at 50 gigabits per seco...

"Telemedicine — providing care using advanced communications technology may be coming into its own with a little help from Uncle Sam. T...

Geoplatform.gov/gulfresponse employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMAR) a web-based GIS platform developed by NOAA a...

As insurgents in Afghanistan target the U.S. military's soft underbelly — its long logistics lines — trucking materiel through war zones...

In a magic trick that only geeks can pull off, researchers at MIT have found a method to let users click and scroll exactly the same way the...

Home computer printers gave people the ability to produce bank statements, concert tickets, holiday cards and party invitations at the touch...

The detection and treatment of solid cancers such as lung, breast, ovarian, colon, and prostate cancers could be on the verge of a major mak...

One of Mark Twain's dying wishes is at last coming true: an extensive, outspoken and revelatory autobiography which he devoted the last ...

This is a very interesting article. Suddenly Tesla, the new EV auto company, becomes more believable as it gets Toyota components and an un...

"German neuroscientists have made a breakthrough in 'age-related cognitive decline' , a common condition that often begins in o...

The $1.4 billion Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas opened in May 2009. The domed stadium features an expansive retractable roof, the worl...

NOTE: When I first started reading this article I thought " So what?" Then I got to the third paragraph below and I changed my mi...

Imagine knowing you'll be too sick to go to work, before the faintest hint of a runny nose or a sore throat. Now imagine that preemptive...

Concerned about your computer becoming infected with a virus, spyware, or other malicious software? Who isn't? One quick, easy way that ...

Forget stitches and old-school sutures. The Air Force is funding scientists who are using nano-technology and lasers to seal up wounds at a ...

Finding an effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder has been a top Pentagon priority for years. And with an estimated one in f...

Stephen Hawking believes we should fear aliens, which would probably come to Earth in search of resources and bent on our destruction. The v...

I took these pics on my trip to Ennis Saturday 17 April 2010. North Texas bluebonnets are beautiful but they can't quite match Hill Cou...

A humanoid robot will visit space for the first time in September aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, NASA announced Wednesday. The Robo...

A crash along northbound State Highway 121 at the Interstate 35E interchange in Lewisville TX caused a big rig to catch fire and dangle off ...

An innovative nanotech "vaccine" has been proven to cure type 1 diabetes in mice, and paves the way to do the same for humans. A d...

Thanks to D ick B elt for these photos.

The body is a resilient biological structure, but there's one thing medical science, an increasing number of Baby Boomers, and the major...

Charles Frank "Devo" Ragsdale died of cancer on February 12, 2010. He was an aspiring artist and intellectual whose life can best...

Dallas Blooms at the Dallas Arboretum is the largest floral festival in the south, showcasing over 500,000 spring-blooming bulbs. The 90 ...