A popsci.com writer reports on a swimsuit whose wearers have already broken 11 world records in two months. Will the technology pave the way for a new era in swimming, or will FINA crack down?

On March 30, 1842, James M. Venable, a resident of Georgia and the not-so-proud owner of two neck cysts, finally consented to having a doctor cut into his neck — while Venable was wide awake — and remove one of the cysts.

He didn't feel a thing.

The attitude of global warming evangelists is akin to a new religion says sceptic Brian Durrant, editor of the Fleet Street Letter...

Cenex, the UK’s first national centre of excellence for low carbon and fuel cell technologies, is hosting a joint two-day conference, exhibition and seminar on Low Carbon Vehicle Technology and Low Emission Transport Strategies, at The Source at Meadowhall, Sheffield, on Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th March.

Troux Technologies announced that Fiducia, the leading German IT services company for the financial services industry, will implement its software platform, Troux 7, to enable strategic IT planning and to ensure that its extensive SOA program is properly aligned with business and IT transformation initiatives.

Japan's Toshiba Corp waved the white flag in the high-definition home movie war on Tuesday, giving up on its HD DVD format after losing the support of key studios and retailers to the Blu-ray technology backed by Sony Corp.

Last week was a busy one, for TuneTracker Systems. First, they released a new application for their package, named TuneBridge. And then they bought a famous BeOS sampling studio, which they will improve and expand.

eWeek takes a look at Vista's first service pack. On the whole, Vista Service Pack 1, which becomes generally available in mid-March, is a fairly staid update with very little in the way of new features or cosmetic changes. SP1 consists of a rollup of Vista's first year of security and bug fixes

Mozilla has launched the third version of its preview build for Firefox 3, adding numerous enhancements to the next-generation Web browser.

Apple has released the Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard update. The 180MB download is now available via Software Update, and a restart is required after installation

This is a very important step towards an alpha release of the Haiku operating system, which I personally hope is not to far into the future…

AppDNA, the leading developer of application testing software, today announced that its AppTitude product has been awarded “Approved” status by Broadband Testing, one of Europe’s foremost independent network testing facilities and consultancy organisations for enterprise IT solutions.

Since 11th January details about a security hole in Quicktime, making it possible for criminals to steal private information or gain access to your webbanking details, has been public.

Microsoft earlier today announced that they have made a bid to the Yahoo! Board of Directors. Microsoft’s bid is $31 per share, which would represent a price tag of about $44.6 billion. Microsoft would pay this with 50% stock shares and 50% cash. And it is pretty obvious that this move from Microsoft is to take on the might of Google.

MySQL has been bought by Sun. Right now there is only a brief announcement but it discusses what the acquisition will mean for the core developers, community etc.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota were able to create a beating rat heart using the outer structure of one heart and injecting heart cells from another rat.

According to a news post on the Haiku project website, a new port team is being formed to bring Java technologies to the Haiku platform. The goal of the Haiku Java Team is to port OpenJDK to Haiku, and they would like to see the port included within the structure of Sun's OpenJDK project.

Scientists are examining whether they can capture the energy driving human sperm to propel nanoscale robots to deliver medicine.

Until very recently, the community of Haiku testers and developers, as well as those curious geeks who wanted to give Haiku a spin, relied on the services of HaikuHost.com to download nightly builds of hard disk raw and VMware images. Now Haiku Files is the new archive of nightly builds.

When history is written, how will the fiasco of Man-Made Global Warming be described? Will those responsible for propagating one of the biggest scams in history be given their due credit? This is a complex subject. One I will try and summarise.

New research looking at mice with schizophrenia opens up the possibility of identifying genetic markers for the disease and maybe sometime in the future the possibility of a treatment.

And what of the Internet? It was supposed to allow us to stay at home and work. But now, we use the Internet to plan our trips and buy our aeroplane tickets.

Once more, a case of the lethal H5N1 strain of avian flu has been found in eastern England. This time, though, nobody cares.

Rupert Murdoch’s rumoured plan is to make much of the Wall Street Journal's content free. he inexorable trend in finance and news is that information and data have no monetary value. They are ubiquitous.

The iPhone is released in Britain and Germany today. But should we believe the hype? Ben Snook dons his troglodyte's hat and investigates.

The Nigerians are still in business. Apparently, there are people who fall for their scams. They send a letter or an email explaining that they have a huge amount of money that they need to transfer to the United States…all they need is the help of an ordinary person with a bank account.

Research shows that we sleep less than we think we do. One Australian, on the other hand, can snooze for more than a year straight.

German Gerhard Ertl has been awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces.

Frenchman Albert Fert and German Peter Grunberg have been announced as winners of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics, for their discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance, which made smaller magnetic hard drives, and the iPod possible.

From birth till death, the project to put Microsoft’s hit game Halo to the screen has been haunted with problems. Now Neil Blomkamp who was lined up to direct the film Halo, has revealed in an interview that the big screen adoption of Microsoft’s hit game is dead.