NYT: By In the brutal world of online commerce, where a competing product is just a click away, retailers need all the juice they can get.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: The sunspot responsible for setting off a colorful round of northern lights got off a doozy of a parting shot, just as it was about to pass around the edge of the sun's disk.
It's very cool that two Canadian teens have become celebrities for sending a flag-toting toy into the stratosphere – just don't say they put a "Lego Man in Space."
Any university student who has ever purchased a used textbook knows that there are sometimes strange surprises hiding between those pages. In this case, the surprise-with-a-textbook-purchase was a bag of cocaine.
Toss on your beer holder sweat shirt, mix up a drink in your football cocktail shaker, and chill a six-pack in your human organ transplant cooler: It's time for the Super Bowl!
Ecologists may have captured the first deep-sea fish sounds, hidden among the sounds of dolphins and humpback, fin and pilot whales, they report in a new study.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: It's very cool that two Canadian teens have become celebrities for sending a flag-toting toy into the stratosphere – just don't say they put a "Lego Man in Space."
Any university student who has ever purchased a used textbook knows that there are sometimes strange surprises hiding between those pages. Usually they come in the form of messy scribbles, but in one student's case the unexpected gift-with-a-textbook-purchase was a bag of cocaine.
What if two computer viruses got together and had a baby? It does happen, and security firm BitDefender, calls it — with apologies to Mary Shelley — "Frankenware."
Apple became the world's No. 1 seller/maker of smartphones in 2011's final quarter, shipping 37 million iPhones and overtaking Samsung for the top spot, according to a recent report.
It's been a little over a year, and Microsoft's motion sensing add-on for the Xbox 360 has not lit the world of video games on fire. But it is catching on in a theme park.
The commercial version of two-seater foldable electric car that driver and passenger enter through a pop-out windshield was officially unveiled this week in Europe. The car, called Hiriko, is powered by four in-wheel motors that each turn a full 90 degrees.
