An International Space Station cosmonaut is going forward with plans to get married while in orbit.

Yuri Malenchenko says he is ignoring officials’ advice to wait until his return to Earth.

He will not be present at the wedding and will be represented at the ceremony by a lawyer.

Mr Malenchenko had promised officials to put off his […]

A new hormone-like compound has caused monkeys to safely lose seven percent of their body weight in a week — equivalent to 10 pounds for a 143-pound human.

The compound, called KB-141, works on the same principle as the hormone produced by the thyroid gland in the neck — well known for its ability to produce […]

Verizon Wireless has the best-quality cellular network, according to a study by J.D. Power and Associates. Nextel was a close second.

For their Wireless Network Quality Assessment Study, the market research and customer satisfaction survey company polled 16,800 wireless telephone customers. Wireless companies were ranked on a scale, with 100 representing an average score. Scores above […]

More and more young people are splitting their tongues. By most counts, a couple of thousand people have undergone the painful forking procedure, an extreme form of body modification that gives one a serpentine look.
Allor’s method is called the “tie off,” but some piercing shops are using scalpels to perform the procedure. It’s done […]

HoloTouch™ interactive holographic actuation and control technology was invented and patented by R. Douglas McPheters; he has assigned all of his rights in HoloTouch to HoloTouch, Inc., a Delaware corporation with offices in Darien, Connecticut. McPheters is the President and sole stockholder of HoloTouch, Inc. Previously, McPheters was Chief Operating Officer and interim […]

A device that produces electricity from blood could be used to turn people into “human batteries”.

Researchers in Japan are developing a method of drawing power from blood glucose, mimicking the way the body generates energy from food.
Theoretically, it could allow a person to pump out 100 watts - enough to illuminate a light bulb.

But […]

After years of development, researchers are on the verge of using holograms to store data in memories that are both fast and vast

The notion of holographic memory dates back to 1963, when Pieter van Heerden, a researcher at Polaroid, first proposed using the method to store data in three dimensions. In theory, it is a […]

In number, cell phones are creeping up on land-line phones. They already comprise about 43 percent of all U.S. phones, according to the International Telecommunication Union, up from 37 percent in 2000.

Meanwhile, the number of U.S. land-line phones has dropped by more than 5 million, or nearly 3 percent, since 2000, the Federal Communications Commission […]

What mothers eat during pregancy could have a fundamental and lifelong effect on the genes of their children, suggests an intriguing new study in mice.

Researchers found they could change the coat colour of baby mice by feeding their mothers different levels of four common nutrients during pregnancy. These altered how the pups’ cells read their […]