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The proposal, detailed this week, calls for the creation of a government-sponsored commission with the power to investigate and shut down Web sites accused of being a conduit for piracy. The bill stops short of a law recently approved in...

The first commercial space hotel is expected to open in 2012, according to a plan of the Galactic Suite Space Resort company. If the hotel opens, the Barcelona, Spain-based architects of Galactic Suite say it will cost about 4.4 million...

Is the iPhone set to become the most popular games console around? 7.4 million of the devices were sold worldwide in the last three months alone (helping to boost Apple’s profits to £1bn – up 46 per cent on last...

That's the message from participants at the Personal Democracy Forum in Barcelona. Andrew Rasiej, the conference founder, says tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube let people organize "to have an impact on the political process and to petition governments...

To reach the conclusion, Almudena S�nchez-Villegas, B.Pharm., Ph.D., of University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Clinic of the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, and colleagues studied 10,094 healthy Spanish participants who completed an initial questionnaire between 1999 and...

Photo by Adam Buhler Vice president of engineering for Google and KU alumnus Brian McClendon discusses the technology behind Google Earth and Google Maps. McClendon detailed the various software and hardware behind Google's geo products Monday afternoon in the Apollo...

The now-extinct Myotragus balearicus , or " mouse goat ," stood a mere 19 inches high, but its small stature is by no means its most unusual trait. Paleontologists have determined that this diminutive goat had more in common with...

Many adolescents have a "a negative, pessimistic and resigned attitude" toward bullying at school, researchers in Spain said. Jesus Caurcel Cara, Fernando Justicia of the University of Granada in Spain, Ana Tomas Almeida of the Universidade do Minho in Portugal...

Researchers from the Teruel-Dinópolis Joint Palaeontology Foundation have compared an Allosauroidea tooth found in deposits in Riodeva, Teruel, with other similar samples. The palaeontologists have concluded that this is the largest tooth of a carnivorous dinosaur to have been found...

A new research conducted at the University of Barcelona, which was published in an open access journal, PLoS Computational Biology by analyzing several hundred face images, revealed that the brain extract important information for face recognition principally from eyes and...