by Dewi Harjanto, Joseph S. Maffei, Muhammad H. Zaman
Qantas Airways expects almost 8,500 domestic and international passengers to have their travel plans disrupted on Friday, one of the busiest days of the year, by workers going on strike.
A tussle between Toyota and Germany's Merck over disruption to pigment supplies from Japan's earthquake shows how business relationships can remain strained even now that production is back to normal.
The Icelandic singer Björk's album Biophilia, set for release on 10 October, features songs on DNA, crystals, viruses and electricity — each accompanied by an iPad app that doubles as a music lesson. She explains how her upbringing and environmental activism has inspired her, and how touch-screen technology has changed the way she composes.
Scientists recently gave a theoretical description of teleportation phenomena in sub-atomic scale physical systems.
Scientists recently gave a theoretical description of teleportation phenomena in sub-atomic scale physical systems.
Ideas from the stranger side of physics could explain some long-standing mysteries of biology.
A new method for quickly identifying individual viruses and recognizing how they bind to host cells may become a vital tool in the early control of winter vomiting disease and other virus-based diseases. In the west, this means saving money and reducing stress on health-care systems. In developing countries, this means saving lives.
Fire is one of humankind’s first technologies. We have been staring into the proverbial campfire for thousands of years. Yet, surprisingly there seems to be much more to learn. And now it’s becoming even more important to our collective future that we know as much as we can about fire.
Fire is one of humankind’s first technologies. We have been staring into the proverbial campfire for thousands of years. Yet, surprisingly there seems to be much more to learn. And now it’s becoming even more important to our collective future that we know as much as we can about fire.
