The near-human performance of a virtual teacher called Eve created by Massey researchers has drawn the attention of scientists across the computing world.
New research from Northwestern University finds that college students' choice of social networking sites -- including Facebook, MySpace and Xanga -- is related to their race, ethnicity and parents' education.
Professor Ortwin Hess, his PhD student Kosmas Tsakmakidis of the Advanced Technology Institute and Department of Physics at the University of Surrey and Professor Alan Boardman from Salford University have revealed a technique which may be able to slow down, stop and capture light.
The United Nations ' AIDS -fighting agency plans to issue a report today acknowledging that it overestimated the size of the epidemic and that new infections with the deadly virus have been dropping each year.
After decades of decline, deaths due to heart disease appear to have leveled off among young men and may be trending upward in young women, according to research released Monday.
Women's bodies and medical needs are vastly different than men's - way beyond their reproductive systems. Yet, there's a cavernous void in research based on sex and gender. Historically, most studies have been done on men and the findings applied to women.
Two research groups have found different genetic recipes to give ordinary skin cells the power to turn into virtually any kind of human tissue, just as embryonic stem cells do.
Reports today indicate that Vodafone has obtained a court hearing which may force Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile subsidiary in Germany to change the way it sells the iPhone.
Scientists have made ordinary human skin cells take on the chameleon-like powers of embryonic stem cells, a startling breakthrough that might someday deliver the medical payoffs of embryo cloning without the controversy.
