The creation of long platinum nanowires at the University of Rochester could soon lead to the development of commercially viable fuel cells. Described in a paper published today in the journal Nano Letters, the new wires should provide significant increases in both the longevity and efficiency of fu...

Last summer there was lots of sturm und drang around here about whether Orlando would have a gay and lesbian theater festival. We didn't, mostly, although not for lack of trying. But now Stetson University students have gone ahead and......

Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE As the healthcare debate heats up the meaning of consumer driven healthcare (CDHC) needs repeating. The true meaning of CDHC has been bastardized by the healthcare insurance industry as represented by Health Savings Accounts (HSA). The healthcare......

Wesleyan University-- notable for its beautiful campus, inspiring teaching staff, and carefully-cultivated crop of the generation's next leaders-- is about to be known mainly for having a sexy sex magazine filled with nude students and tips on buying condoms, among other "controversies.&quo...

Jacory Harris' pass was off target and tight end Daniel Adderley was not in position to yank the ball down. Neither was safety Vaughn Telemaque, but that didn't matter. Still stumbling a bit from the bump he received from Adderley, Telemaque put his right hand out in an att...

At 5 a.m. on the morning of Monday, March 9, after many months of planning, NBC Universal at long last unveiled its 24-hour hyper-local newslike cable channel, called New York Nonstop (Channel 161 on Time Warner cable!). Some 12 hours later, Chuck Scarborough, who for decades has been the face of NB...

Today's Ypulse Guest Post is from David Moon, a recent graduate from the University of Adelaide.  I had the pleasure of meeting David when he spent his year abroad studying at UC Berkeley and as an American Studies major, I thought he would have some interesting insights towards how the campus cult...

I have no idea how I slept on these week old pictures of Miss Universe at Atlantis in the Bahamas rockin’ out in a bikini, but I did, so I’m trying to make up for lost time by putting them up today. I have a problem of forgetting to check other sites or bother caring about much other tha...

Filed under: Audio/Video, iPod For some reason, whenever gadgetry and smiling cross paths, things tend to get a little creepy. Where the smile trainer was mostly a curiosity, the Orwellian implications of the Okao Catch technology were a bit much -- even for the hardened tech blogger. Sure, the Mimi...

Conserving energy is one of those things that you may want to do, but you've never gotten around to it, and you're not exactly sure how to start -- because, well, thinking about stuff is hard. The SmartSwitch prototype -- designed by Peter Russo and Brendan Wypich at Stanford University -- works on ...