While the gadgets have been hailed as a safer substitute for cigarettes, there is no comprehensive scientific research into the health risks of inhaling vapour. can reveal that as part of its … But while Labor took on ''big tobacco'' in the High …

In recent years, Pentium and Celeron chips have always been based on Intel's flagship CPU architectures, though they often don't follow the higher–end Core-branded variants until months after their introduction. Intel will still be producing Haswell …

A man who stole $1.26 million worth of historic gold nuggets, jewelry and other artifacts from a Northern California courthouse has been sentenced to five years in prison. Scott Bailey, 51, of San Pablo, Calif., pleaded guilty to burglary on Thursday …

The Queen has struck a deal with Prince Charles to split the proceeds of gold reserves which have been discovered in Cornwall. After prospectors found 'commercial quantities' of the precious metal, royal advisers have decided to resolve a centuries-old …

SCI-FI. Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special. BBC1, 23 November. Not only do we get three doctors, all at once – the outgoing Matt Smith, the past David Tennant, and John Hurt as some kind of mystery, filling-the-gap doctor – but also Daleks, zygons and …

In the late 1800s, prospectors rushed to the Colorado Rockies searching for gold and silver. Mineral-spawned boomtowns sprouted faster than dandelions in a mountain meadow, then withered away as veins played out. Their ghostly remains serve as …

With Twitter getting ready to go public, intellectual property expert Maulin Shah of EnvisionIP has been prowling through the company's patent collection, eager to see what special techniques the king of 140-character tweets might be counting as its …

According to Cmdr. Tim Bosshart, this area on the far-west-side of Carpentersville — which contains newer and more affluent homes — “is one of the quietest” in the village. There's no doubt that village officials know Ernest Diamond well. He moved to …

The service isn't limited to the affluent hills neighborhoods. In middle-class Maxwell Park, just northwest of Mills College, 180 residents have banded together to hire a security guard to patrol their neighborhood for four hours a day, five days a …