Google‘s fourth-quarter net income nearly tripled compared with a year earlier, to $1 billion (its annual profit for 2006 doubled to $3.1 billion). The company is prospering from website advertising revenue; the number of paid clicks rose by 61% in the quarter. However, Google’s share price came under pressure after analysts cautioned its future profits […]

A fascinating calculation about how much longer humanity will survive is conducted by an astrophysicist at Princeton University.

According to a paper published in the journal Science an injury to a specific part of the brain, near the ear, can instantly and permanently break a smoking habit. People with the injury who stopped smoking found that their bodies, as one man put it, “forgot the urge to smoke.” – from the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/science/26brain.html?th&emc=th