Science & Technology

If you recently bought a new computer, plan to or are tired of your word processor, you should check out OpenOffice.

Scientists at UCLA have collaborated to create a microscope that displays images of neurons in 3D.

How can a car that runs 100 miles per gallon change the world? A car is just a car, and even one that reaches efficiencies never before seen on the world’s roads will not make any difference on its own. The real change comes when that car ceases to be just a car, and becomes a paradigm of the future.

Inside the Consilience of Art and Science exhibit at the Pence Gallery is a large sculpture in a corner by a window facing the street. From a distance it appears to be a large piece of white manufactured plastic, about six feet tall and with irregularly shaped holes. On closer inspection, the sculpture is actually constructed from plastic wrap twisted and wired together. Noises of birds and insects softly permeate the small room.

When it comes to nature, I take after my mom. While my dad thinks an unruly shrub needs a good pruning, my mom happily lets sweet-pea plants sprawl across the yard. She’s the one who saves worms on the sidewalk and tries to make necklaces out of fox vertebrae. She’s no hippie. Like me, she’s just fascinated with nature and science.

Here’s something I never knew: It takes 500 gallons of blood to produce one gallon of milk.

Nine months after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, researchers John Kessler of Texas A&M University and David Valentine of UC Santa Barbara finally uncovered optimistic data in the haze of tar balls and oil-slicked water.

Few things in this world feel better than a full night’s sleep; a night from which you wake up feeling refreshed, energized and clear-headed.

According to the California Tomato Growers Association, the average American eats almost 80 pounds of tomatoes annually.

Tired of fitting those cable or satellite TV bills into a tight school budget? Then you might want to check out this week’s tech of the week: the Slingbox.

In the hopes of acquiring the 2022 World Cup, Japan recently submitted a bid proposing that the country would transmit the event via holograms to stadiums throughout the world.

Whisky, Gin, what a night it has been. Taste unbearable, potency strong. Takes the mind from right to wrong.