7 September 2008, 11:20 pm
An international team of scientists has come up with either a surprising or unsurprising finding about whether air pollution increases or decreases rainfall.... read more
7 September 2008, 11:19 pm
There is fresh evidence that people spend less when paying cash than using credit, cash-equivalent scrip or gift certificates.... read more
7 September 2008, 11:18 pm
The world's largest catalogue of Beatles-related recollections will be unveiled in Liverpool this week.... read more
7 September 2008, 8:22 pm
Ten years ago today, Google was incorporated. Thus began the meteoric rise of a company that's become so synonymous with the Internet that its own name has become a verb. After all, it's even in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, defined as: to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (... read more
7 September 2008, 6:19 pm
Live in Wilmington, NC? If so, on the morning of Sept. 8th, you will be treated to a digital-only signal, as the 135th-largest TV market area in the country, with 179,760 TV homes, switches to digital-only as a test.... read more
7 September 2008, 1:07 pm
In his 1871 treatise The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Charles Darwin argued that although the concept of humans having evolved from a lower species was abhorrent to some, he personally “would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey” as from the vi... read more
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