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Bits Blog: F.C.C. Moves to Free Up Community Broadband Services

The F.C.C. passed an order to override state laws that hinder the expansion of community broadband networks, saying the laws limit competition. Legal challenges...

Iranian Women Post Pics Without Hijab in Online Protest

Masih Alinejad, creator of "My Stealthy Freedom" Facebook page, discusses Iranian women protesting against wearing the Hijab.

Northern Iowa’s Seth Tuttle Points the Way Back to the Tournament

Center Seth Tuttle, who leads the Panthers in scoring, rebounding and assists, and the conference in field goal percentage, always had a knack for...

Bill O’Reilly likes a fight, and his ratings show it

Are Bill O'Reilly's ratings up because of the controversy about discrepancies in his past reporting? ...read more

Liberia’s President Urges U.S. to Continue Ebola Aid

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia praised the American efforts to fight the virus, which have helped to nearly eliminate new cases.

Mystery of the reverse-wired eyeball solved

Counter-intuitively, in vertebrates photoreceptors are located behind the neurons in the back of the eye. Now physicists explain why the neural wiring seems to...

Drug research, development more efficient than expected

Despite ever increasing regulation in drug approval and the rising costs of research, drug research and development remains unexpectedly efficient, a new shows. To...

Drug research, development more efficient than expected

Despite ever increasing regulation in drug approval and the rising costs of research, drug research and development remains unexpectedly efficient, a new shows. To...

Predicting human crowds with statistical physics

A general law of how pedestrians interact in a crowd can be used to create realistic crowds in virtual reality games and to make...

Employees become angry when receiving after-hours email, texts

People who receive electronic correspondence from work after hours become angry more often than not and that can interfere with their personal lives, a...