Disney expands refunds on `Baby Einstein' DVDs

The Walt Disney Co. is expanding a refund program for its "Baby Einstein" videos for toddlers in response to challenges about the legitimacy of its educational claims.

1

0

Govt review: No privacy problems in cyber security

The Justice Department has concluded that a beefed-up surveillance program that monitors federal employees' Internet traffic does not violate their rights or those of private citizens who communicate with them.

0

0

US wants privacy in new cyber security system

The Obama administration is moving cautiously on a new pilot program that would both detect and stop cyber attacks against government computers, while trying to ensure citizen privacy protections.

0

2

Print of iconic Einstein photo sells for $74K

One of the original signed prints of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out at photographers has been sold by a New Hampshire auction house for $74,324.

0

0

Correction: Einstein's Telescope story

In a Sept. 23 story about Albert Einstein's long-lost telescope going on display, The Associated Press, relying on information from Hebrew University officials, misspelled the surname of the man believed to have built the instrument. His correct name is Zvi Gezari, not Gizeri, his family said.

0

0

Now viewing: Long-lost Einstein telescope restored

Albert Einstein's long-lost telescope, forgotten for decades in a Jerusalem storage shed, goes on display this week after three years and $10,000 spent restoring the relic.

3

2

Einstein's musings about religion sells for $400K

A letter in which Albert Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish" has sold at auction for more than $400,000.

0

1

Letters Reveal Einstein's Personal Life

An Albert Einstein letter decrying the attentions of a Berlin socialite is among newly unsealed documents that promise to shed light on the private life of the 20th century's greatest physicist.

6

1

Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are much in the news. GRB 090423 turns out to be the most distant explosion ever observed, an event that occurred a scant 630 million years after the Big Bang.

1

0

Astronomers have used a high-energy burst of light from a distant galaxy to test the fabric of space and time. The work is the best test yet of attempts to create a 'theory of everything'. More Articles

16

9

Parent alert: the Walt Disney Company is now offering refunds for all those "Baby Einstein" videos that did not make children into geniuses.

0

0

Moral of the story - careful what you promise in your branding?

2

0

According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second.

65

149

As if the universe weren't strange enough, scientists have recently discovered that entire galaxy clusters—the largest known structures in the universe, consisting of thousands of galaxies—are moving toward the same area.

16

30

...the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future.

7

12

LONDON - He was talking at nine months and by 18 months, was reciting the alphabet in the bath. Within the next six months, he had a vocabulary stretching to thousands of words, while most children his age would have mastered only about 50.

4

5

"The pattern that the data reveal is extremely odd. It's like finding a zoo of animals of all ages and sizes miraculously having identical, say, weight in their backbones or something.

25

34

1. Axis of Evil: Radiation left from the big bang is still glowing in the sky – in a mysterious and controversial pattern. 2. Dark Flow: Something unseeable and far bigger than anything in the known universe is hauling a group of galaxies towards it at inexplicable speed.

1

1

The world seems to be putting itself together piece by piece on this damp gray morning along the coast of Maine.

2

4

The biggest, most expensive physics machine in the world is riddled with thousands of bad electrical connections.

1

0

The possibility of "swimming" and "gliding" in curved, empty space shows that even after nine decades, Einstein's theory of general relativity continues to amaze

0

0

While the effort to detect gravitational waves is ongoing, the researchers have now used the LIGO apparatus to observe the oscillations of a 2.7 kg pendulum mode at a level close to its quantum ground state.

4

2

What is time? No, really, what is it? A dimension of space-time, says relativity, but is it physical? Or just mental? Why does it seem to move forward and not back? Does the universe acknowledge the arrow of time that we experience? How big is time? Does our notion of "now" h …

19

12

Einstein in my pocket

Falling asleep on the highway yesterday afternoon and needed to get my second caffeine buzz du jour on. And not a Waffle House in sight. Finally, had to settle for McDonald's (you don't have to tell me, I know) for a jolt.

6

5

The nearby, well-known and very bright star may soon explode in a supernova, according to data released by U.C. Berkeley researchers Tuesday. More Articles

56

113

"Zipper structures break new ground on coupling photonics with micromechanics, and can impact the way we measure motion, even into the quantum realm," More Articles

4

6

For neutrinos created recently, the ranges they can exist in are very, very small. But over the roughly 13.7-billion-year lifetime of the cosmos, "relic" neutrinos have been stretched out by the expansion of the universe, enlarging the range in which each neutrino can exist.

12

13

Previous experiments have entangled the internal properties of particles, such as spin states, but this is the first time scientists have entangled the particles' pattern of motion. More Articles

20

18

Cosmologists don't usually take their lead from the animal kingdom. But a model that postulates the existence of a 'chameleon' particle — which would change its mass depending on its surroundings — is gaining attention. More Articles

13

7

Creationism vs. Evolution: A new idea...both???

It's funny. Every single time somebody asks me this question, the debate goes either one of two ways: 1) Heated, or 2) "Can I have another beer please?" I enjoy both.

5

13

Whatever dark energy is, explanations for it have less wiggle room following a Hubble Space Telescope observation that has refined the measurement of the universe's present expansion rate to a precision where the error is smaller than five percent. More Articles

12

6

Research by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal alloys. More Articles

16

7