Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services, which connect individual users for simultaneous uploads and downloads directly rather than through a central server, are reported to account for as much as 70 percent of Internet traffic worldwide.

Wireless data, transmitted across your skin -- the Human Area Network is one step closer to reality.

Peer review has become the gold standard of the scientific community. Bring up a scientific finding, and the first thing you may be asked is, "Ah, well, is this peer reviewed?"

Is peer review all that it's cracked up to be?

I tagged this with every category since I review books in all realms of science.

Though I plan to maintain my Science Shelf archive of book reviews, I will now also publish the reviews on Science Blog.

In a first-of-its-kind study, UC Irvine researchers have provided new insight into blog readers’ online habits and experiences, as well as how they perceive their roles in blog-based communities.

Both sociologists and market researchers have been using Facebook for a few years now in order study human activity. I recently came across a new use.

For those of you have have been wondering about whether ScienceDebate2008, the latest news is that it has morphed into a different but still viable form.

It won't take place in PA, but it may take place on PBS.

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Internet addiction is gaining more and more credibility as a mental problem, granting more credibility to your social awkwardness. By the way, this article may or may not be updated with new content every 15 minutes. Better keep refreshing just to make sure.

The lives of today’s college students have always included computers and the Internet. That technology now has moved from the ether into instruction. A technical report from a University of Houston Department of Health and Human Performance researcher finds that students in a “hybrid class” that incorporated instructional technology with in-class lectures scored a letter-grade higher on average than their counterparts who took the same class in a more traditional format.

I got this from the folks at ScienceDebate2008 and I'm passing it along.