New York, Oct. 3 : Four out of ten American voters do not see the healthcare plans being projected by Barack Obama and John McCain as being better for them.

As part of the ongoing poll series, Debating Health: Election 2008, the Harvard Public Opinion Research Program at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harris Interactive(r) conducted the new survey.

The survey found that voters view the candidates'' plans differently from this perspective.

Washington, Oct. 3: New research from the University of California, Berkeley, indicates the war on terror has less impact on presidential popularity than it did during President Bush's first term.

Contrary to earlier studies that found that the threat of terrorism favors conservative leaders, a new national field study conducted by UC Berkeley sociologists Robb Willer and Nick Adams shows that terror warnings delivered by such government agencies as the Department of Homeland Security may reduce support for John McCain among moderates or swing voters.

Washington, Oct. 3: Barack Obama's campaign for the White House is receiving increasing complaints about scam pollsters involved in dirty tricks operations to discredit the Democratic candidate.

According to a report appearing in The Guardian, victims claim the fake pollsters work insinuations into their questions, designed to damage Obama.

Those targeted in swing states such as Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania include Jews, Christian evangelicals, Catholics and Latinos.

New York, Oct. 3: Wednesday’s vice-presidential debate between Delaware Senator Joe Biden and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin may have earned the latter some brownie points, but a fact check on what both said during the over hour and a half interaction suggests that there were more untruths than truths.

According to a CBS reality check, the first issue that reveals this was whether McCain voted to cut off funding for troops in Iraq?

Washington - Sarah Palin, the running mate of Republican White House hopeful John McCain, has erased some of the doubts over her fitness for the top job after a fast-paced and wide-reaching debate with Joe Biden, vice presidential pick of Democrat Barack Obama.

Coming into Thursday night's debate, Palin, a one-term governor of Alaska, had faced limited media interviews and exchanges since being thrust into the national limelight just five weeks ago.

Washington, October 3 : Computers that can be folded up to be put in the pocket and televisions sets that can be bended to view may soon be a reality, thanks to the efforts of researchers from Sony and the Max Planck Institute.

Published in the New Journal of Physics, a study conducted by the researchers heralds the beginning of a technological revolution for screen displays.

It demonstrates, for the first time, the possibility of bendable optically assessed organic light emitting displays, based on red or IR-A light upconversion.