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The agency responsible for ground zero redevelopment will spend $695,000 through 2011 to fund the twin beams of light that pay tribute to the World Trade Center victims.
Friday marked the final flicker of CBS' "Guiding Light," as that venerable daytime drama logged its farewell hour after 72 years on the air.
Until not so long ago, Stage 42 at CBS' Broadcast Center held a honeycomb of chambers where "Guiding Light" was shot.
The EU will start making the transition from power-draining lightbulbs to more energy efficient ones Tuesday, the European Commission said.
A new study shows that some people are more mentally nimble on sunny days, but have duller brains on cloudy days, regardless of the season. The findings add to growing evidence that the weather affects how we think.
Massive particle accelerators are exploring the world of the very small, but similar technology may someday propel needle-sized spacecraft to distances on a scale so large as to be almost unimaginable — between star systems.
After three years of sweat and toil, Philippe Cozette tunneled into history one wintry day in 1990, using a compressed air drill to power through the last chunk of chalk marl separating undersea tubes extending from the shores of Calais in France to the white cliffs of Dover in England.
The car, stopped at a traffic light in Manchester, N.H., didn't move when the light turned green. So a police officer checked it out and found the driver asleep at the wheel, with one foot still on the brake. The 22-year-old driver eventually woke up and was arrested Monday on a charge of aggravated driving while intoxicated, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported.
Do your best. Do the right thing. Don’t whine. Don’t blame. Be accountable. Treat other people well.
Matt Light of New England and Channing Crowder of Miami were fined $15,000 apiece by the NFL on Wednesday for what the league called "a verbal and physical altercation" last Sunday.
Starbucks Corp. plans to add more lower-calorie versions of its ready-to-drink bottled Frappuccinos to store shelves next year through its joint venture with PepsiCo Inc.
Every time I’m on the TODAY Show, I say hi to Matt, Ann, Al and Meredith, I shake hands with my producer, and then I bow down and give thanks to the man who is by far the most important person at the show: Howie Strawbridge. Who the heck is Howie? He’s the TODAY lighting director. Why do I bow down to him? Well, for one thing, he’s very nice. But while my TODAY pals are fantastic to work with on camera and my producer keeps me out of trouble, it’s Howie who makes me look, um, “good” at 7:00 in the morning.
On a bank of the Mohawk River, a windowless industrial building of corrugated steel hides something that could make floor lamps, bedside lamps, wall sconces and nearly every other household lamp obsolete.
Anheuser-Busch is rolling out a $50 million advertising campaign for Bud Light playing up the beer's "drinkability," trying to set the brand apart as rival MillerCoors waits until the new year to release new ads for its big seller, Miller Lite.
Star light, star bright. The first star grew fast, but began slight. The first cosmological object formed in the universe was a tiny protostar with a mass of about 1 percent of our sun, according to U.S. and Japanese researchers who spent years developing a complex computer simulation of what it was like after the Big Bang that formed the universe.
It's time to think of the inside of your carry-on suitcase as real estate: Make the most of what you've got, keep it functional and make neatness count.
A year from now, capturing a crisp, clear image of a candlelit birthday party could be a piece of cake — even with a camera phone. Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday it has developed a color-filter technology that at least doubles the sensitivity to light of the image sensor in every digital camera, enabling shutterbugs to take better pictures in poor light.
European light-bulb makers said Tuesday they want to phase out the standard incandescent light bulb in eight years, replacing it with more eco-friendly, energy-efficient lamps.
Concentric rings of plastic on gold allow an optical microscope to resolve objects too small to otherwise be seen (Image: Science/Maryland University)
The 6-light-year-wide Crab Nebula was created by a star that blew up nearly 1000 years ago, leaving behind an unusual neutron star that may boast four magnetic poles (Image: NASA/ESA/J Hester/A Loll/ASU)
Stun guns could soon be able to deliver a disabling shock even to recipients wearing insulating clothing.
The race to build an exotic material with a negative refractive index for visible light has been won by a team of researchers in Germany. The demonstration could open the door to a new generation of optical devices such as superlenses able to see details finer then the wavelength of visible light.
Jets emerge from the vicinity of a black hole or neutron star, which orbits a massive regular star in the LS 5039 system. Some of the gamma rays produced in the system are transformed into particles of matter and antimatter through collisions with ultraviolet photons (Illustration: HESS Collaboration/R Hynes)
The top image shows the raw output of the retina chip, the middle one a picture processed from it and the third shows how a moving face would appear (Image: Zaghloul/Boahen/IOP)
A silicon-based microchip that generates laser beams has been developed by researchers at Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara, both in the US.
Two Objects Found: Too Small to be Stars, Hotter than the Stars they CircleNASA's new planet-hunting telescope has found two mystery objects that are too hot to be planets and too small to be stars. More Articles
Single light wave flashes out from fibre laserA long-elusive goal of physics has been reached – producing a pulse of light so short that it contains just a single oscillation of a light wave.
Proposed Spacetime Structure Could Provide Hints for Quantum Gravity TheoryAs Kempf explains, the underlying mathematical structure of information theory in this framework is sampling theory - that is, samples taken at a generic discrete set of points can be used to reconstruct the shape of the information (or spacetime) everywhere down to a specific cu …
Artificial retina gives woman limited vision after decades of darknessFor years, Campbell survived -- even thrived -- as a blind woman navigating New York City. Then earlier this year, she went from coping with blindness to hoping she might see again.
A Blueprint For A Quantum Propulsion MachinePush on the electromagnetic fields in the quantum vacuum and you should get an equal and opposite force. More Articles
The complicated history of simple scientific facts, how the speed of light came to be the ultimate speed limit for the entire universeSometimes, even as a person pisses you off, they make a point that you can't ignore. In a recent forum discussion that I was involved in, scientists were accused of making pronouncements from on high.
Rainbow trapped for the first timeOh, to catch a rainbow. Well, it's been done for the first time ever – and with just a simple lens and a plate of glass at that. The technique could be used to store information using light, a boon for optical computing and telecommunications.
Recently in one of my articles, a friend and I were discussing what color scheme I might enjoy for the new apartment I will be living in for the next 2-8 years.
Polarized Peepers: Crustacean's Eyes Surpass Man-Made Optical Devices in Manipulating LightA species of mantis shrimp, thanks to a unique eye structure, can perceive light that is circularly polarized
An Intergalactic Race in Space and Time : Einstein Wins a Round Against Quantum TheoryAstronomers 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
Google Releases Voice Light for Any Mobile Number | Epicenter | Wired.comMobile phone users who love their phone number but still want the cool features of Google Voice — including computer translations of voicemail messages — will get their wish Tuesday, as Google announces a light version of its innovative phone service (and a new feature for fu …
First black hole for light created on Earth An electromagnetic "black hole" that sucks in surrounding light has been built for the first time. The device, which works at microwave frequencies, may soon be extended to trap visible light, leading to an entirely new way of harvesting solar energy to generate electricity.
You taste like soft light gathered from late summer shadows on wooded paths, dappled by the shifting patterns of leaves in golden sun. His golden fingers kissed your soft skin and left his perfume as you walked. And if light has form and shape, let me stand in your shadows.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | The 'first true scientist'By Professor Jim Al-Khalili University of Surrey Isaac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest physicist of all time.
BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Time telescope' could boost webResearchers have demonstrated a "time telescope" that could squeeze much more information into the data packets sent around the internet. Rather than focusing information-carrying light pulses in space, like a normal lens, it focuses them in time.
Jet Pilots are Blinded by Laser Pen Yob: Helicopter Escorts Jet to Glasgow AirportDue to a laser light aimed at the pilot, a "passenger jet had to be guided to safety by a police helicopter," according to The Sun.
Jaw-Dropping Works of Light Art & Photographic GraffitiA lone figure stands in an eerie green landscape with long beams of shimmering light seemingly emanating from his body. In another image, a neon-colored UFO spins above a muted creek at twilight.
Gods healing light When I see the sun shining, it makes me know God still has hope for this world. Every single day is another chance for us to acknowledge Him.
How Photon Echoes Can Be Used To Create A Quantum Memory DeviceQuantum computers are right on the horizon, but they have lots of different problems to work out. One such problem is the storage of the light pulses. Quantum computing works with lasar pulses, instead of the traditional electronic pulse.
Group Makes Push For Central Time Zone Switch -A group that wants to move all of Indiana into the Central Time Zone is asking state legislators to reopen the time debate.
Guiding Light Around Corners With New Metamaterial Device"Using a composite metamaterial to deliver a complex set of instructions to a beam of light, Boston College physicists have created a device to guide electromagnetic waves around objects such as the corner of a building or the profile of the eastern seaboard."
Harvard Physicist Turns Light Into Matter.... And Back Into LightNow Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Hau has done it again. She and her team made a light pulse disappear from one cold cloud then retrieved it from another cloud nearby. In the process, light was converted into matter then back into light.
Live Science: Strange! Humans Glow in Visible LightThe human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal.
Quantum Goes Massive :: LIGO Lends an EyeWhile 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.
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