Think teenagers are spending all night long playing online games on the computer? Wrong — it’s their mothers burning the midnight oil.

Sales of legal music downloads have reached a new high to become the second most popular singles format in the UK.

Even as the pace of nanotechnology research accelerates in labs around the world, a few early studies have raised concerns that tiny man-made particles might pose threats to human health or the environment.

Newspapers raved for days beforehand about the hot new tech stock offering. On its first trading day, millions of shares changed hands, and the price soared more than 30%. Tech types called their buddies to ask if they had heard the news. And by nightfall, the company’s entrepreneur-founder was a billionaire.

Sounds like a dot-com dream […]

NEW SCIENTST: A device intended to suppress hailstorms by blasting out sound waves is being tested in the US by the car manufacturer Nissan.

CNN: After a hard days work and a couple of beers, don’t we all really wonder what our beer would look like under thousands of times magnification? Maybe not, but after nine years of work and five million dollars, Michael Davidson of Florida State University has created a website of microscopic proportions that will […]

BETTERHUMANS: Mice with grafted testicle tissue have produced monkey sperm, a step towards preserving endangered primates and new reproductive options for infertile men.

REUTERS: One of Finland’s richest men has been fined a record 170,000 euros ($217,000) for speeding through the center of the capital, police said on Tuesday.

The heart benefits seen with light alcohol use may relate to its ability to reduce inflammation, new research suggests.

Thousands of Victorian cows are wearing Radio Frequency Identification tags as part of a pilot program to streamline collection and testing of milk samples.

The environmentally-conscientious could soon ensure they don’t end up polluting the earth after they die, thanks to a company in Sweden.

Mario stubs out his cigarette and sits down at the desk in his bedroom. He pops into his laptop the CD of Iron Maiden’s ”Number of the Beast,” his latest favorite album. ”I really like it,” he says. ”My girlfriend bought it for me.” He gestures to the 15-year-old girl with straight dark hair lounging […]