If Black Friday is any indication, consumer electronics will continue to be at the top of many people's holiday wish lists. For three lucky winners of the "Need a Tech Make over" contest sponsored by Federated Media, HotHardware and Intel,

The mobile PC Extended Battery Life Working Group (EBL WG) has released updated guidelines for measurement of notebook PC display power. As displays are one of the top power consuming components in a typical PC, the EBL WG guidelines are

News item. The Aviation Safety Network Website . Last updated: 18 December 2008.

News item. The Aviation Safety Network Website . Last updated: 18 December 2008.

News item. The Aviation Safety Network Website . Last updated: 18 December 2008.

If the feel of denim is depressing, corduroy is confusing, but tennis balls send you to heaven, you may have a newly discovered form of synaesthesia

Devices just a centimetre across could be simple to use if fitted with a touch interface on the back

The group charged with reviewing the future of the leap second, which keeps global time in sync, says there is little reason to keep adding it

A design flaw probably caused the Mars probe to spin out of control as it descended, says a team of hypersonics engineers

Recurring problems with the massive update.

Technology can do great things, but it also can be over sold as panacea for a host of social ills. A better use of technology can be gained if those who guide technology policy are clear about how to apply

Human parechovirus is a harmless virus which is encountered by most infants and displays few symptoms. Suspected of triggering type 1 diabetes in susceptible people, research methods need to take this 'silent' virus into consideration. This comes from findings in

Smoking during the first trimester of pregnancy is clearly linked with an increased risk of cleft lip in newborns. Genes that play a role in detoxification of cigarette smoke do not appear to be involved. This is shown in a

The German Cancer Society has worked out new guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of malignant melanoma -- a disease with unfavorable prognosis. Malignant melanoma is responsible for 90 percent of deaths from skin cancer. The incidence has increased 5-fold

Repeated miscarriages and hormone treatment for infertility give an increased risk of pre-eclampsia among pregnant women. This comes from a new study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. More than 20,000 first-time mothers from the Norwegian Mother and Child

Link to psoriasis strengthens evidence that inflammation contributes to coronary artery disease, say editors of the American Journal of Cardiology.

Scientists at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia and the Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon, in Portugal, have shown that populations of the worm Caenhorabditis elegans become resistance to pesticides in 20 generations, that is, in only 80

The power of viruses is well documented in human history. Swarms of little viral Davids have repeatedly laid low the great Goliaths of human civilization, most famously in the devastating pandemics that swept the New World during European conquest and

The editors of Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation are pleased to announce a special supplement to the December issue, highlighting traumatic brain injury.

Entirely new protein structures are very rarely found to drive known biochemical processes. But molecular biologists from ETH Zurich have just succeeded in finding an example. They studied the protein ASST, present in pathogenic E. coli bacteria, which cause urinary