Jun 2 2008
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have taken an important step toward understanding how the human brain codes the meanings of words by creating the first computational model that can predict the unique brain activation patterns associated with...
May 31 2008
Secular Turks say the government\’s religious authority has gone too far by advising women not to flirt with strangers or wear perfume outside their homes. The article is expected to further inflame a debate about the role of religion in the...
May 31 2008
Taking God\’s name in vain is a familiar profanity but could lead to the beheading of a Turkish barber in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, court records show.
May 30 2008
Since polar bears have been officially recognised as endangered, our attention turns to the next species perilously close to extinction - nivicolous hominis, known by children the world over as the common Snowman.
May 29 2008
In a shocking turnabout, the press secretary most known for defending President Bush on Iraq, Katrina and a host of other controversial issues produced a memoir damning of his old boss on nearly every level _ from too much secrecy to a less-than-honest...
May 29 2008
here’s so much power in a new idea taking shape and changing the way people live and act. Often the rest of us are in awe, or we are even afraid of a new idea, and sometimes our fears spur us to learn more about it. In addition to what some academics...
May 29 2008
Many long-term survivors of cancer are not getting the help they need to cope with the after-effects of the disease, experts warn.
May 28 2008
I’ve been watching the steady decline of journalism since the Internet began replacing print and television as the main provider of news, with a seething disgust.
May 28 2008
Germany unveiled a monument to the tens of thousands of homosexuals persecuted under the Nazis, whose laws were used to prosecute gay men for a generation after World War Two.
May 28 2008
A Goa-born surgeon researching and teaching at the Dundee University in Scotland has pioneered a new method for the early detection of breast cancer.