Adding to a mountain of other challenges, “corn disaster” is not what we need to hear. Life is tough enough. After weeks of drought and days of blistering 100+ temps, corn is succumbing to these tortures. Soybeans are next in line. No way can crops withstand such harsh onslaughts of[...]

Joel Burcham, president of, idAir, a new company that reads fingerprints through the air without having to touch a pad talks about his product at HudsonAlpha Wednesday, May 16, 2012 in Huntsville, Ala. (The Huntsville Times/Eric Schultz) HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Forget the key card to your office building? Just wave[...]

Most of us don’t think much about it, but the truth is that people are being watched, tracked and monitored more today than at any other time in human history.  The explosive growth of technology in recent years has given governments, spy agencies and big corporations monitoring tools that the[...]

A new analysis reveals that top-selling fragrance products—from Britney Spears’ Curious and Hannah Montana Secret Celebrity to Calvin Klein Eternity and Abercrombie & Fitch Fierce —contain a dozen or more secret chemicals not listed on labels, multiple chemicals that can trigger allergic reactions or disrupt hormones, and many substances that have not[...]