Researchers are constructing scientific theories to explain why women are nearly twice as likely as men to become depressed. Social bias and women’s higher rates of physical and sexual abuse and poverty, experts say, clearly play a role. But scientists are also studying genes that may predispose girls and women to the disorder.

Most printed newspapers’ circulations and readerships continue their steady 40-year declines. More than 80 percent of American adults read a newspaper each weekday in 1964, but only 58 percent did in 1997, according to the Newspaper Association of America. In 2003, an estimated 54 percent read a newspaper each weekday. Most analysts predict that fewer […]

Once the undisputed leader, America is now under assault from countries worldwide. How did this happen, and will the U.S. be able to fight back?

In the history of the U.S. technology industry, 2004 will be remembered as the year that outsourcing hit home.

The “Colorio me:” is an inkjet printer designed by Epson’s “Team8,” an all-woman project team formed specifically for the purpose of creating a “printer easy for women to use.” It has a handle o­n the round-style case for transporting.

Researchers are testing technology that could allow a lander to melt through the ice crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa to reach the water ocean beneath.