Hi folks, it's been a while since I've posted here. I just want to give you a heads up on a new Open Source Post Processing program that is in development. I've been getting some great results with it, and have also been able to incr ...

Earlier this week, we found out that, thanks to Christians who were determined to distribute the Bible to schoolchildren in Orange County, Florida, the doors had opened up to any religious or non-r...

Today's genre books are full of future dystopias, which only have one weakness: teenagers. And everybody knows that most dystopias are kind of contrived. But here are 10 lessons from real-life rebellions against repressive regimes, that we wish ...

From Lord Byron's rabies-ridden Newfoundland to the Hardys' aggressive terrier, Mikita Brottman on her favourite bookish hounds

Angela Sun tells Salon about her frightening new documentary and reports from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch VIDEO

This summer, Idaho's legislature voted to allow teachers to bring firearms into classrooms in an attempt to dissuade school shootings. It was less than a week into this school year and an Idaho pro...

A schoolteacher carrying a concealed firearm severely injured after accident at Westbrook elementary school in Utah

The religious right touts homeschooling as a viable educational alternative. Parents, grads tell a different story

At school, we were all taught that volcanoes--just like the one rumbling away in Iceland--erupt when narrow jets of magma are forced outwards from the core of the Earth. It's a compelling enough story that it's appeared in textbooks for dec ...

The recent news of the opening of an independent bookstore on Manhattan’s Upper West Side was greeted with surprise and delight, since a neighborhood once flush with such stores had become a retail book desert. The opening coincides with the relocati ...

Nanoscale light-matter interaction observed in circuit could lead to on-chip optical processing

Letters: Ed Miliband hopes for an NHS opt-out clause, but it is doubtful the EU would make this a high priority

Here's a spectacular eruption of Mount Tavurvur in Papua New Guinea. What's cool about it is following the shockwave of the blast, the clouds immediately scatter away and the booming shockwave eventually reaches the people on the boat. Boom ...

The short, strange era of human civilization would appear to be drawing to a close.

Will Self's attack on Orwell reveals the dramatic divide in contemporary fiction over clarity vs. embroidery

By Moises Velasquez-Manoff In New England today, trees cover more land than they have at any time since the colonial era. Roughly 80 percent of the region is now forested, compared with just 30 per...

The propane, made from E. coli, is completely renewable and could be ready for commercial production within 10 years, the scientists said.

By Deborah Enos Exercise may improve more than just the look and diameter of your gut, according to a recent study. It may also increase the bacterial diversity within it, the study published in Ju...

Dickens, Zola and early 20th-century timetables all transport the reader, finds novelist and railway fanatic Andrew Martin

Plasmonics makes holograms capable of storing twice as much information