Sources indicate that not only will Google release a cell phone, the long-rumored gPhone platform, by mid-2008, Google will announce it within two weeks. That would be good, since in late August, sources were not only talking about an announcement in two weeks, they were talking about a launch in two weeks.
A new black hole, with a mass 24 to 33 times that of our Sun, is more massive than scientists have detected - or expected - for a black hole that formed from a dying star.
Many people wring their hands over the state of science education and point to the appalling performance of America's students in international science and math competitions. Yet some of the direst noises about our nation's scientific prospects may be premature. Far from rejecting challenging science courses, students seem to be embracing them.
Using computer simulations, Boston-area researchers Moshe Alamaro and Ross N. Hoffman hypothesize that a large amount of soot or pulverized black rubber dumped into a hurricane's eye would quickly disperse around the storm's chilly upper layer.
Two Canadian astronomers think there is a good reason dark matter, a mysterious substance thought to make up the bulk of matter in the universe, has never been directly detected: It doesn't exist.
A 3,000-year-old burial site in Vanuatu containing 60 headless skeletons and skulls in pots is helping end the mystery over colonization of the Pacific and the first Polynesians, archaeologists said on Tuesday.
I've said before this country is overly litigious, but in this case virtual sex toys have some real-life monetary value --- and are intellectual property --- thus, the lawsuit. Despite the reality of the legal issues, the case still has some humorous qualities.
