“Spore,” the long-awaited (and long-delayed) follow-up from video game guru Will Wright launches Friday in Europe and Sunday in North America. Mr. Wright, who made pop culture history when he created the massively popular PC world known as “The Sims,” calls his new creation “the ultimate God game,” allowing players to guide a home-brewed species […]

Having a tough time figuring out how quickly Greenland’s ice cap could melt? Look to the past for clues. That’s what an international team of scientists led by Anders Carlson of the University of Wisconsin has done. Based on its analysis, the team says, history teaches that under the right conditions, the ice can disappear […]

When it comes to keeping your favorite loaf of bread from turning green, scientists in Spain appear to have found the best thing since, well, sliced bread – a wax-paper wrapper infused with cinnamon oil.
It falls under the heading of “active packaging,” an approach to stalling spoilage that tries to avoid preservatives in the bread […]