JF Ptak Science Books Post 2793 Before the Neil deGrasse Tyson version and update of Carl Sagan's landmark television series, Cosmos, there was Alexander von Humboldt, and his enormously influential book of the same noscript, printed in 1845-1862. Well, von...

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(Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates finances the military leader trying to topple a United Nations-recognized government in Libya. It helps lead a coalition of nations imposing an economic blockade of Qatar, despite U.S. calls to resolve the dispute. It…

Commuter rail stations in the San Francisco Bay Area should be some of the most valuable land in the region (and by extension, the world). So why are there so many parking lots and one-story buildings right next to them?

A groundbreaking study from Just Facts has found that the poorest 20% of Americas consume more goods and services than the averages for most of the world

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Huawei outlined its options for gaining independence from US semiconductor firms, including its new Ascend chips.

The controversy over SolarCity, which has dovetailed with questions about Musk’s mountain of debt and profit shortfalls, offers a window into the mindset of America’s most outlandish CEO.

When people hear Esperanto for the first time, they sometimes think they're hearing Italian, or maybe Spanish. A good amount of vocabulary in Esperanto is taken from romance roots, so this isn't totally surprising.

There's a lot going on behind the scenes, since I am not only writing the books; at the same time I have to create the software to write about. For example, ...

Raspberry Pi is a small, cost-effective, single-board computer with potential only limited by its computing power. It is also well-known by hobbyists and technologists alike. It’s the perfect device for those looking to experiment with an idea or test the…

It is a common phenomenon for the traditional concrete to crack, requiring maintenance and reparations before reinforcement starts to corrode. Luckily...

A polymer that self-destructs? While once a fictional idea, new polymers now exist that are rugged enough to ferry packages or sensors into hostile territory and vaporize immediately upon a military mission's ...

The US pharmaceutical giant must pay $572m for its part in fuelling Oklahoma's painkiller addiction crisis.

Every year, Paris holds a Grand Prix to crown the city’s best baguette – and in recent years, the winners have been bakers whose ‘origins’ are far from France.