Alex Muller

The Shenzhou 9 and its three-person crew, which includes China’s first woman in space Liu Yang, linked with the Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) 1 module, with...

The world’s sixth-richest man has just bought Hawaii’s sixth-largest island.   Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has bought the majority of the Hawaiian island of Lana’i,...

If humans ever move to the moon, we’ll need a steady supply of the two most basic elements for life: Sunlight and water. The lunar...

Bing has been updating its search engine results pages significantly this year, including an aesthetic and architectural revamp in May. Today Microsoft announced that image...

Americans are not getting any older, literally. Life expectancy in the United States has stagnated and falls behind several other countries, in several cases by...

About 40 percent of the solar energy reaching Earth’s surface lies in the near-infrared region of the spectrum — energy that conventional silicon-based solar cells...

Microsoft is lifting the curtain to provide a preview of some of the software and hardware changes for its Windows Phone 8 operating system today....

You want a robotics revolution? Then get ready to drop $25 million. That is, of course, if you are Dmitry Grishin, the co-founder of the...

The USPTO just awarded Google with a patent on an “integrated finger-tracking input sensor device” for Google glasses which pretty much means that there’ll be...

An interesting story in the New York Times today explores the ease with which noninvasive prenatal diagnostics can now determine paternity, even when the pregnancy...