Most people claim they don't make judgments about people based on appearance, and most people who say that are lying. 

'First impressions' became a term for a reason. Everyone knows appearance counts in first impressions, and first impressions count overall, that is why it is better to wear a tie to a job interview than pajamas but how much are people really able to tell about someone else based on physical aspects, aside from whether or not they are wearing pajamas instead of a tie or if they look like George Clooney? 

Oxford BioMedica plc biopharmaceuticals and its partner Sanofi announced a positive interim review of the RetinoStat(R) Phase I study in neovascular "wet" age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and the StarGen(TM) Phase I/IIa study in Stargardt disease by the Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB); an independent panel of specialists in the fields of ophthalmology, virology and vectorology. RetinoStat(R) and StarGen(TM) were designed and developed by Oxford BioMedica using the Company's proprietary LentiVector(R) gene delivery technology. 

CD-adapco has released the STAR-CCM + Battery Simulation Module, designed to simulate spirally wound lithium-ion battery cells, which could help the automotive and battery industries more quickly design and develop advanced electric drive vehicle power sources.

Being able to print electronic equipment has led to a cost-effective device that could change the way we interact with everyday objects - namely by using a phone's emitted radio waves for wireless power.

Can't tell a $4 bottle of wine from a $40 one?  Neither can the best sommeliers in the world.  But in the future you might at least seem like an expert, thanks to the power of semantic Web technology.

Deborah McGuinness, professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been developing applications for tech-savvy wine connoisseurs since her days as a graduate student in the 1980s, before what we now know as the World Wide Web had even been envisioned.  We must assume she had a wine lovers BBS.

Dark matter, up to 25 percent of the universe, hasn't actually been found. It is a hypothesis, though not an unreasonable one, given that something must create a gravitational force.