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British consumers are being ripped off by a “comfortable oligopoly” of bloated electricity and gas supply companies, MPs were told yesterday. At the opening of a parliamentary hearing into competition in the UK power market, Allan Asher, the chief...

Its creators admit it is the ultimate in decadence: a $175 hamburger. The Wall Street Burger Shoppe just raised its price from $150 to assure its designation as the costliest burger in the city as determined by Pocket Change, an online newsletter about...

VODAFONE MUST be watching events in India and South Africa closely because there are strong rumours a tie-up between Africa’s biggest mobile operator, MTN, and India’s Bharti Telecom is on the cards.

Following the introduction of the first-ever dual-source Computed Tomography (CT) system, SOMATOM(R) Definition, with two X-ray tubes that simultaneously generate different energies, Siemens Healthcare has developed 10 dual energy (DE) applications. At...

The shapes of surfaces captured the imagination and attention of many mathematicians in the 19th century. To unfold the visual secrets compressed and hidden within the shorthand of algebraic expressions, geometers drew pictures, constructed models, and...

Every weekday for the past twenty-seven years, a long-in-the-tooth history major named Phil Schaap has hosted a morning program on WKCR, Columbia University’s radio station, called “Bird Flight,” which places a degree of attention on the music of...

Scientists have created monkeys genetically modified to have Huntington’s disease in an effort to gain a deeper understanding of the fatal ailment and uncover clues to possible new treatments. In the journal Nature on Sunday, the researchers said...

Women who are stressed about money, relationships and other problems during pregnancy may give birth to babies who are predisposed to allergies and asthma, U.S. researchers said on Sunday. The findings, presented at a meeting of the American Thoracic...

t’s easy to look at a laptop, an iPod, or a laser printer as nothing more than a tool to get work done with or to while away your free time on, but these and many other high-tech devices didn’t fall off a tree. They emerged following years...