Axiotron converts MacBook into tablet PC Modbook

Start-up Axiotron took an off-the-shelf MacBook notebook, deep-sixed the keyboard and display and slapped on its own converter ...

Businesses try to Net financial assistance

Since the credit crunch of 2007, some 400 banks have opted out of the federal government's guaranteed small-business-loan program, ...

Pentagon launches foreign news websites

The Pentagon is setting up a network of foreign-language news sites and hiring local journalists to create content that promotes ...

Famous fossil defines a professor's life

The man who found Lucy, the world's most famous fossil, is never far from her. Just steps from Donald Johanson's office at ...

South Korean astronaut hospitalized with back pain

South Korea's first astronaut has been hospitalized with back and neck pain apparently caused by the unexpectedly steep descent ...

Robot reinvents bypass surgery

In a era when an increasing number of patients have been choosing balloon angioplasty to avoid the trauma of open-heart surgery, ...

Reports: DNA tests link bones to children of last Russian czar

DNA tests carried out by a U.S. laboratory prove that bone fragments exhumed last year belong to two children of Russia's last ...