The R-Class has had a rough life. Not only did it suffer from odd, disproportionate styling, but Mercedes-Benz never really marketed the vehicle the way that it should have, choosing to position it as a "sports tourer," rather than the obvious upscale family hauler that it is.

As a way of improving the efficiency of electric power distribution, many utilities are looking at the deployment of so-called "smart meters" that, in addition to their basic function of measuring the amount of electricity consumed, are also networked computers.

The US Food and Drug Administration does not want Rotarix, the rotavirus vaccine, to be used because it contains porcine circovirus 1 DNA. If complete copies of the circovirus genome were present, would they constitute a potential threat to recipients? Put another way, is circovirus DNA infectious?

Possession tells the story of Jess, a workaholic wife to artist Ryan, with a work-related past involving her ex-convict brother-in-law Roman. Her world is turned upside-down after a freak car accident sends her husband and brother-in-law in comas, but her life is thrown into a tailspin when Roman wakes up thinking he is his brother.

We have in our possession the 2011 Mustang 5.0 V-8 and 3.7 V-6, and although our drive impressions and test numbers are embargoed until Monday morning, we can tell you what we discovered after our trip to the dyno this morning.

This weekend is sees the second race of the 2010 F1 season take place in Australia. In the leadup the Financial Times has run a story on the slowdown in F1 sponsorship, with reporters Christian Sylt and Carloine Reid noting a drop of $115 million from last year.

Take a look at the Facebook Fan Pages of some brands and what you see is not a pretty picture. Oh, the numbers look good, but when you dig a little deeper a different picture emerges. Walls filled with off topic conversations at best, vile language and real antipathy for the brand at worst. What happened?

The persistent dearth of women scientists has been researched, contested and speculated upon in recent years, with study after study interpreting this paucity as born of bias, biology or some combination of both. But amid this understandable concern about why so few women succeed in science, another significant question is often neglected: how the few women who have succeeded managed to do so.

Yesterday, Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) unanimously voted a motion on open access policy. FAS Faculty members now grant to the university a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to distribute their scholarly articles, provided it is for non commercial uses.

Just like our computer's QWERTY keyboards (they were designed to be inefficient so typewriter keys wouldn't stick, yet we use them today on devices that will never, ever stick), we're using thinking that's anywhere from 100 to 1,000 years old (and more) to determine our staffing and working decisions.

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