Fury in the streets of Istanbul, Turkey where hundreds tried to storm the Israeli Consulate today. It was a similar scene in Greece and parts of the Arab World reacting to Israel's deadly attack this morning on an international aid flotilla bound for...
Why were the safety recommendations of your own engineers ignored? I wasnt involved in any of the decision-making. Its clear that there were some discussion amongst the engineering team and that an engineering judgment was taken. Its clear to me that...
Federal agents investigating the Times Square attempted bombing have custody of three people. They were detained on alleged immigration violations. Attorney General Eric Holder says they were picked up during searches in parts of the northeastern US...
New York City police are searching for a white man in his 40s who may have been behind a failed car bombing in Times Square last night. They're poring over hundreds of hours of video surveillance from the area. The device was found in a Nissan Pathfi...
Rwanda is actually at the leading edge of developing nations in tapping these technologies to advance health and health care. - Susan Dentzer Information technology has come more slowly to the area of health care perhaps than some other fields. But t...
Youve heard of waterboarding used as a means to get suspected terrorists to talk. Some people object to such methods on the grounds that they amount to torture. But in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, psychologist Shane OMara of Trinity Coll...
This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? When an Iraqi reporter threw his shoe at President Bush, University of Washington neurologists were delighted. But not because of politics. The fling was just real...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Adam Hinterthuer, got a minute? If a train heading east leaves Chicago at noon, and a train heading west leaves New York an hour later, would that make you any better at math? New evidence says No...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, I am Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Somewhere along the line you've probably heard that you should drink eight glasses of water a day. Its supposed to make your skin supple, keep your organ...
Bosnian non-Serb war veterans wave Ejub Ganic's book 'Conversation and Testimonies' in support of him in front of UK Embassy in Sarajevo, 05 Mar 2010 A British court has agreed to release former Bosnian president Ejup Ganic on bail until he can appea...