Two Leicester open following Leicester's £235 million Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme

An American ISP allegedly involved in distributing spam and images of child abuse has been thrown off the net. The US Federal Trade Commission asked for Pricewert LLC's net links to be severed after it had gathered evidence of the

A group from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, has taken a step in that direction by forging a mind-bending quantum connection between two mechanical widgets. Their devices don't look like electric drills or other

As many already know, it's possible to unlock the disabled cores on recent Phenom II processors, allowing you to get up to 4 cores working. Now, AMD has announced that it would release new microcode for motherboard BIOS updates that

Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Michael Barratt completed the first of two Russian spacewalks planned for June at 8:46 a.m. EDT Friday. The second spacewalk is set for Wednesday at 2:45 a.m. Friday's spacewalk started late after

It's only been about a month and a half since RIM released the last update to Facebook for Blackberry (and then a fix to that update just after that), and BlackBerry's maker has already come out with a more streamlined

A team of physicists led by Alex Zettl of the University of California, Berkeley, has created a carbon nanotube-based electromechanical memory device that they say can store bits safely for up to a billion years. Details of the advance, which

For decades, geologists have been puzzled by the mechanisms that give rise to the kind of volcanoes that form the so-called "ring of fire" around the Pacific Ocean. These arc volcanoes, which account for about 10 to 25 percent of

A study into spam has blamed it for the production of more than 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m homes. The Carbon Footprint of e-mail Spam report estimated that 62 trillion spam emails are

Rough versions of the Google Chrome browser for Mac and Linux are finally available, but project leaders Mike Smith and Karen Grunberg emphasize "DON'T DOWNLOAD THEM!" in all uppercase, and go on to request that you try them only if

Possibly the clearest skies on Earth have been found - but to exploit them, astronomers will have to set up a telescope in one of the planet's harshest climates. Michael Ashley of the University of New South Wales in Sydney,

Following the great parliamentary expenses scandal from afar has been to view my home country through the wrong end of a telescope: so many scuttling figures, comically diminished in scale, like poor, tiny Douglas Hogg, with his flat cap and

Those who spend most of their lives being alert to the demands of others - and that's most employees, most husbands, wives, parents, most believers - will know the rhythmic, sedative pull of the motorways as the road performs its

I was a social work assistant, paid a very small sum by the NHS and meant to be learning on the job, pending some formal traineeship that never in fact materialised. No one knew what I was for or how

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Environmentally conscious companies are finding new and interesting plans to reduce their negative environmental footprint. Most have already adopted obvious changes. Recycling is a norm, the use of élan efficient equipment is common and many companies are making an effort