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Revisit your alarm clock from 1989 with this mondo E-Ink wall clock

ClockOne, a digital wall clock that uses E Ink for its display, officially goes on sale today. Twelve24, the company behind this home and office accessory, has launched Using the same display technology as the one found in Amazon's Kindle ebook ...

Upon review, Patriots offense wasn't all that bad

The Patriots actually did move the ball; there were four drives of double-digit plays, and three drives of at least four minutes. The Jumbo package allows the defense to crowd the box, and the New England offensive line has been getting pushed back....

The insect that hears like a human, with ears on its knees

Every time you put on some music or listen to a speaker's words, you are party to a miracle of biology – the ability to hear. Sounds are just waves of pressure, cascading through sparse molecules of air. Your ears can not only detect these oscillations ...

Scientists create mice that automatically label new memories for easy reactivation

Finding a specific memory in your brain is not easy. Is it held within a particular group of neurons? If so, which ones? Are they clustered together, or spread throughout the brain? In science-fiction, a goofy helmet and a fancy operating system is all ...

How 'superspreader' viruses invaded our genes

Around 8 to 10 per cent of your DNA comes from viral ancestors. These sequences are the remains of prehistoric viruses that inserted their DNA into the genes of our ancestors, hundreds of millions of years ago. Some of them became permanent residents, ...

Here's where all the magic happens

The Open Notebook has a series called Natural Habitat, which looks at the space in which science writers work. I, perhaps foolishly, agreed to take part in it. You can find the resulting video and photos here, featuring the local pub, treelancing (TM ...

Why did a US advisory board reverse its stance on publishing mutant flu papers?

Late last year, two teams of scientists announced that they had mutated the H5N1 'bird flu' virus so that it can spread easily between mammals, an ability that their wild cousins lack. The research aimed to understand how natural viruses could evolve ...

The one killer app that could make us all want a smartwatch

I also can't begin to stress how much of an annoyance it is to use Google Authenticator and its ilk to type in 6-digit authentication codes all ... and when I have to switch from large screen to tiny screen (and back), there are at least two glasses ...

Kyocera Rally Feature Phone Launches Nationwide at T-Mobile; Offers Affordable, Easy-to-Use Functionality

Rally features a sleek, ergonomic design with a traditional keypad and large separated keys to make calling ... calendar, calculator, alarm clock, stopwatch, and more. Rally also supports TTY/TTD and has an HAC rating of M3/T3 fixed for the hearing ...