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What's the Latest Development? When Brian Cox, a particle physicist at Manchester University, recently gave a lecture on quantum mechanics to a popular audience, he uttered the phrase, 'everything is connected to everything else'. It means the subatomic constituents of your body are constantly ... Read More

What's the Latest Development? Physicists are changing how we think of empty space, i.e. a vacuum, to explain how the universe could have come from 'nothing'. Empty space, it turns out, may not be empty at all. One of the leading proponents of this view, cosmologist Lawrence Krauss ... Read More

What's the Latest Development? The space telescope which could peek into the origins of the universe continues to be built, despite having caused a major rift with Congress last year when some of its members tried to cut the telescope's funding. Estimated to cost $500 million, the price now ... Read More

What's the Latest Development? The Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed that a planet outside our solar system is composed mostly of water. Larger than Earth but smaller than gas giants like Jupiter, the exoplanet GJ 1214b, just 40 light-years away, is a so-called 'Super Earth'. The planet was ... Read More

What's the Latest Development? Scientists have clocked the winds of a stellar-mass black hole at 20 million miles per hour, nearly 10 times faster than the winds normally associated with this class of black hole. Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers observed winds blowing off the ... Read More

What's the Latest Development? A new scientific study suggests that our Facebook profiles accurately reflect our job performance when it comes to qualities such as dependability and emotional stability. On a three-judge panel consisting of two college students and one professor, the profiles of ... Read More

What's the Latest Development? The mobile communication revolution has already changed the world but we have only scratched the surface of how connectivity will change society, according to a report from Cisco. The multinational corporation estimates that by 2012, mobile devices will outnumber ... Read More

What's the Latest Development? Since the Justice Department moved against Megaupload, an online file-sharing network, the copyright industry has begun to win significant legal battles against piracy networks. The Pirate Bay, one of the Web's largest host sites for file-sharing, has lost a court ... Read More

What's the Latest Development? If you have a car, you could be earning money while you are not driving it. That is the idea behind a string of new start ups encouraging vehicle owners to share their cars in return for cash. In general, the owner receives two-thirds of the rental proceeds ... Read More

What's the Latest Development? Visiting Stanford scholar Evgeny Morozov says that online reputation insurance could help prevent data leak scandals by compensating victims of privacy violations and give companies financial incentives to better protect user data. Online data security suffered ... Read More

What's the Latest Development? On February 13, the deadline for comments on a federal financial regulation known as the Volcker Rule expired. Federal meetings over the rule, which is intended to keep banks from making ultra-risky bets on the market, were attended by only one consumer-advocacy ... Read More

What's the Latest Development? Many foreign governments have more scientists at the helm that the United States. The President and Premier of China are both engineers; Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has a PhD in chemistry; the last national election in Singapore was a contest between two ... Read More

What's the Latest Development? Young people just out of college as well as mid-career professionals are finding new opportunities in Latin-America. In many parts of the region, economic growth has proven stable despite the global economic recession. One government-sponsored program in Chile, in ... Read More

What's the Latest Development? In late 2011, new regulations on interstate air pollution were struck down by a federal court just two days before entering into force. In 2010, the EPA proposed tightening restrictions on ozone three years ahead of schedule. Currently, new rules restricting ... Read More

What's the Latest Development? The story of this century will be the story of humanity's urbanization—the story of the city. Today, more than half of the world's people live in cities, compared to less than three percent in 1800. By 2025, China will have 15 'mega-cities', each with a population ... Read More