Exposure to vapors from butter flavoring in microwave popcorn has been linked to a rare lung disease contracted by factory workers in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has said it suspects the chemical diacetyl caused the illnesses.

Orion, the Big Dipper and Andromeda could be joined in the heavens by ads for soft drinks and cigarettes if a Russian inventor’s device catches on.

The waste you flush down the toilet could one day power the lights in your home. So say researchers at Pennsylvania State University who last week revealed they have developed an electricity generator fuelled by sewage.

Nokia is developing software that will help turn its phones into life loggers.
The Lifeblog software automatically arranges all the messages, images, videos and sound clips people capture with their phones.

Scientists say quantum materials will be the basis for amazing devices, but when?

The world of the quantum stretches the limits of human imagination. Who could ever believe, for instance, that atoms — the building blocks of our seemingly solid landscape — are able to exist in different places at one time?

Ma Bell, take note: The cable industry is gunning for your phone business.
Long an insignificant source of revenue for cable operators, cable telephones — phones hooked up to cable lines — are becoming big business for cable companies.