Audi has unveiled a new Italian-penned design concept which could morph into the next TT sports car. The monolithic shape of ...

Ford’s Police Interceptor Stealth concept from 2010 apparently drew some inspiration from a legendary spy plane. What was its ...

Odd ideas, Kickstarter catastrophes and other haunted crowd-funders; the creepiest, freakiest and least practical technology ...

Erika Jayne is experiencing more legal peril as she now faces a default judgment amid her ongoing fight with the Marco Marco design studio. According to Ronald, attorney Jim Wilkes, who is ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Blurbs, those pithy paeans scattered across book covers like confetti, are controversial again. Recently, Simon ...

Simon & Schuster UK (S&S) has told The Bookseller its policy on blurbs remains unchanged despite its American counterpart saying it will “no longer require authors to obtain blurbs for their books”, ...

Folks, it’s time to talk about blurbs. You know blurbs, the choice little quotations from other writers or public figures touting the excellence of the book you are considering purchasing. They are ...

In a decision some in the book business might call “stunning” or a “tour-de-force,” Simon & Schuster publisher Sean Manning, who succeeded Jonathan Karp last year at the top of S&S’s flagship imprint ...

Filter feeders can be found across various animal species, from tiny crustaceans and specific types of coral to large creatures like basking sharks and baleen whales. Recently, engineers at MIT have ...

New research by engineers at MIT may result in swift advancements for different electrochemical systems aimed at transforming carbon dioxide into a useful product. The group created a novel ...

Linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer analyzes the origins of words in the news. Read previous columns here. The publishing industry has a problem, and it goes by a peculiar five-letter name: “blurb.” ...