Science & Technology

Interview with Michael Mauboussin, author of More Than You Know

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:51:48 PDT

Q. Why do you caution against using a popular measure, the price/earnings ratio, to value the market or individual companies? A: My answer to this question has a very...

Deadly Immunity

Thu, 25 May 2006 01:49:23 PDT

NOTE: This story has been updated to correct several inaccuracies in the original, published version. As originally reported, American preschoolers received only three...

At Museums: Invasion of the Podcasts

Wed, 24 May 2006 08:18:43 PDT

In 1958 the National Gallery of Art in Washington embedded transmitters under its floorboards and handed out radio receivers so the electronically inclined could listen...

Two Splits Between Human and Chimp Lines Suggested

Wed, 24 May 2006 08:15:45 PDT

The split between the human and chimpanzee lineages, a pivotal event in human evolution, may have occurred millions of years later than fossil bones suggest, and the...

Search News in Science

Tue, 02 May 2006 22:55:31 PDT

"A concrete possibility is that various choice deficits may result from an impaired or dysfunctional activity of this population [of neurones], though this hypothesis...

Search News in Science

Tue, 02 May 2006 22:55:00 PDT

"Visual appeal can be assessed within 50 milliseconds, suggesting that web designers have about 50 milliseconds to make a good impression," the Canadian researchers...