The editors and writers of Detective Comics were inspired by their own personal research into the cutting-edge technologies being discovered at the time, as they conceptualized the creation of the now historic line of archetype heroes and supervillains.

Common infosphere cybersecurity weaknesses that are continuously overlooked, or just have not been patched properly are now the existing soft underbelly of the world's infrastructures. CyberWar 3.0 can become more destructive than using nuclear weapons!

The CERN director-general has made a bid to host the next advanced experimental phase in particle physics - The Linear Collider - to be built on CERN property in Geneva, Switzerland. Its construction is to follow in the Large Hadron Collider's footsteps.

Females may be outwardly choosy when selecting sexual partners -- accepting or shunning mates in very public ways -- but males may get the last say in this battle of the sexes.New research found that males can adjust the speed and effectiveness of their

Coral Castle was built in the early 20th century by an eccentric Latvian recluse named Edward Leedskalnin who allegedly left Latvia when he was rejected by his 16 year old fiance. He would never marry and would spend 30 years of his life building a

According to new research published online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) on July 1, 2009, a new fossil primate from Myanmar (previously known as Burma) suggests that the common ancestor of humans, monkeys and apes....

Sea urchins are small and spiny, they have no eyes and they eat kelp and algae. Still, the sea creature's genome is remarkably similar to humans' and may hold the key to preventing and curing several human diseases, according to a University of .....

Microscopic analysis of scratches on dinosaur teeth has helped scientists unravel an ancient riddle of what a major group of dinosaurs ate -- and exactly how they did it!

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In a paper that shows just how strange our modern world has become, Robert P. Friedland, neurologist from the University of Louisville, warns that farmed fish could be at risk of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, or mad cow disease. Currently, farmed fish ar