YellowBrix Top Science

  • Evidence of ancient antibiotic use found
    An Emory University anthropologist and a medicinal chemist say chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Nubia...
  • Kirkwood educator is Missouri teacher of the year
    Sept. 01--A Kirkwood chemistry teacher known for his ability to inspire both students and fellow educators ha...
  • Putting a face on unsolved cases
    COLUMBIA, S.C. _ The pale face stares straight ahead, peering at something just beyond the horizon perhaps. H...
  • The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Tech Talk column
    Sept. 02--EVERYONE grumbles from time to time about doctors "playing God," but now scientists have finally man...
  • Ontario Science Centre summer attendance sets an 11 year high
    Record number of visitors in August - 23.6 % increase over last year TORONTO, Sept. 1 /CNW/ - As August came ...
  • BRIEF: UHV adds faculty for new freshmen
    Aug. 31--THE NEW UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON -- Victoria freshmen class brings a boost of faculty to the School of A...
  • OPINION: Data visualisation, 17th-century style
    While information design seems wholly modern, its roots can be traced back to early scientific explorations, a...
  • Signs of ancient feasting uncovered
    Communal feasting on significant occasions goes back in human history at least 12,000 years, say researchers i...
  • New fossil field found in Canadian Rockies
    A fossil bed in Canada, one of paleontology's most revered locations, now has a neighbor yielding up newly dis...
  • Sixth Class of Fletcher Fellows Announced
    NEW YORK, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., Chairman and CEO of Fletcher Asset Manage...

    YellowBrix Top US News

  • Hamas taking hard line over peace negotiations
    Attacks on settlers will continue unless the rulers of Gaza can be accommodated, writes MICHAEL JANSEN BY RE...
  • BRIEF: Fund set up for acid attack victim
    Sept. 02--A fund has been established to assist the 28-year-old Vancouver woman who had acid thrown in her fac...
  • Weaker Earl brings rain to N.C. coast
    Rain from Hurricane Earl fell on the coast of North Carolina Thursday evening, and warnings were posted along ...
  • 2 arrested in deadly West Bank shootings
    Palestinian police arrested two suspects in the killing of four West Bank Israelis on the eve of Israeli-Pales...
  • Parents of slain kids have message for gangs: How dare you?
    Sept. 02--Parents of children murdered in Chicago voiced anger over a press conference called today by self-pr...
  • Letterman's would-be blackmailer freed
    The former New York CBS television producer convicted of trying to blackmail "Late Show" host David Letterman ...
  • Victims' parents object to press conference called by Chicago gang members
    CHICAGO _ Parents of children murdered in Chicago voiced anger over a press conference called Thursday by self...

    YellowBrix Top Headlines

  • 13 evacuated as oil and gas rig burns in Gulf of Mexico
    HOUSTON - An oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico exploded yesterday, setting off a blaze and a small oi...
  • Netanyahu seeks 'durable and secure peace'
    ISRAEL'S PRIME minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he was looking "to find a historic compromise" that will bring...
  • Federer and Wozniacki sail safely through
    TENNIS US OPEN: FIVE-TIME CHAMPION Roger Federer and women's top seed Caroline Wozniacki both earned straight-...
  • Obama's peacemaking effort faces steep odds for success
    WASHINGTON _ The first Middle East peace talks in nearly two years got off to a quick start Thursday, with Isr...
  • Face-to-face Mideast talks open
    Sept. 03--WASHINGTON -- After a day of ceremony and separate meetings at the White House with US President Bar...
  • BRIEF: Hurricane Earl expected to pass 200 miles east of Wilmington Thursday night
    Sept. 02--Earl is moving north, but forecasters expect the hurricane to turn north-northeast and speed up Frid...
  • Six charged with trafficking 400 Thais
    A federal grand jury in Honolulu Thursday indicted six people on charges of conspiracy to commit forced labor ...
  • Tax cut debate has pundits busy
    Allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire for high-income U.S. families would cut into finances of a high-spending ...
  • 40-70 mph winds could hit Maine coast in next 36 hours
    Sept. 02--ELLSWORTH, Maine -- Hurricane Earl continued to march north Thursday toward the North Carolina shore...
  • Gulf platform fire out
    A fire aboard a Gulf of Mexico oil platform Thursday has been extinguished and no oil spilled as a result, the...

    YellowBrix Top Entertainment

  • Guns N' Roses promoter says he kept angry frontman in O2
    MUSIC PROMOTERS MCD said it prevented Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose from leaving Dublin's O2 venue on Wednes...
  • Hawking outlines idea of God's redundancy in latest book
    LONDON - God did not create the universe and the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics...
  • Police shoot suspect in Discovery building standoff; 3 hostages escape
    Sept. 02--Police shot and killed a gunman wearing what appeared to be explosives after he took three people h...
  • Bullet ends Discovery Channel hostage crisis
    Sept. 02--SILVER SPRING, Md. -- A hostage crisis at the Discovery Channel building ended Wednesday when polic...
  • T.I., wife arrested on drug charge
    Rapper T.I. and his wife Tameka "Tiny" Cottle were arrested in Los Angeles on a drug-possession charge, an arr...
  • God didn't create the universe, claims Hawking
    THE universe was not created by God, scientist Stephen Hawking has said in his new book. Professor Hawking bel...
  • Man dies in TV station shoot-out
    A MAN who took three people hostage at the Discovery Channel's headquarters has died after a shoot-out with po...
  • O'Barry takes peaceful tack; Taiji on hunt
    Sept. 02--Animal rights activist Ric O'Barry, who starred in the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove," stresse...
  • Suspect: 'Planet does not need humans'
    James J. Lee, identified as the gunman killed by police at the Discovery Channel in Maryland, had a history of...

    YellowBrix Top Technology

  • HP wins bidding for Fremont's 3Par with raised offer of $2.4B
    Sept. 02--By Brandon Bailey Just over three weeks ago, Fremont-based 3Par was a little-known data storage comp...
  • HP defeats Dell in bidding war for once-unknown 3Par
    SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Hewlett-Packard has beaten Dell in a high-stakes bidding war for Fremont, Calif., data-stor...
  • Apple unveils new products, upgrades -- Television device gets smaller and cheaper
    SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc. announced a smaller, cheaper version of its Apple TV device for streaming movies an...
  • Mich. juror dismissed for Facebook posting
    A Michigan juror who posted a Facebook comment on a trial in progress was dismissed, ordered to pay a fine, an...
  • Warren juror gets fine, homework for 'guilty' posting on Facebook
    Sept. 02--Hadley Jons, the Warren woman who was removed from a jury for declaring the defendant guilty on Face...
  • Social Director - Apple's Jobs Unveils a Friendlier Version of Itunes
    Apple CEO Steve Jobs is borrowing the best of Facebook and Twitter to transform iTunes into a social network f...
  • Apple takes on television a second time
    U.S. technical giant Apple shifted its direction in its foray into television, introducing a $99 device that w...
  • 3PAR Determines Revised HP Proposal Is Superior
    (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, today announced that it received a revised propos...
  • San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Troy Wolverton column
    Sept. 02--When you think of social networking companies, you think of Facebook, Twitter and maybe LinkedIn or ...
  • New rule to tighten controls on Chinese mobile phone-users
    CHINESE MOBILE phone-users have to register their personal details to buy a SIM card under a new government ru...

    YellowBrix Top Health

  • Allergan agrees $600m settlement for unapproved Botox marketing
    CHICAGO - Allergan Inc has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a federal investigation of its marketing pract...
  • Flu shot season starts early this year
    Sept. 02--TAMPA -- Last year's swine flu frenzy is long over, but a massive government and commercial push to ...
  • New TB test fast, accurate -- It identifies if person's strain resists main drug to treat it; could
    A better test would be a powerful tool to curb TB in poor countries, where most people spread the lung disease...
  • Flu shots are recommnded for everyone this year
    Sept. 01--State epidemiologist Sharon Alroy-Preis has two words of advice for New Hampshire residents: Get vac...
  • New test for TB faster, more accurate
    Scientists are reporting a major advance in diagnosing tuberculosis: A new test can reveal in less than two ho...
  • Head Smart
    NEW JERSEY students will soon be returning to school for the start of another fall term. Many of these studen...
  • Allergan to plead guilty, pay $600 million for Botox charges
    Sept. 02--The maker of anti-wrinkle agent Botox has reached a $600 million settlement with federal prosecutors...
  • Meridia raises the risk of heart attack, stroke
    A company-sponsored study found that the weight-loss drug Meridia raised heart attack and stroke risk in patie...
  • Local medical providers are getting prepared to offer 2010-11 version of the influenza vaccine to pa
    Sept. 02--Look for flu shots to start becoming available this month. Family Practice Medical Center has alrea...
  • Ovary removal may have benefit / Study: Women at risk of cancer may lower threat
    CHICAGO - Surgery to remove healthy ovaries gives a triple benefit to high-risk women: It lowers their threat ...