A British man who sold all his possessions, including his clothes, stood in a rented tuxedo on Sunday surrounded by family and friends and bet everything on a single spin of the roulette wheel.

Simply using zinc supplements could improve the treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, supporting theories about the contribution of dietary deficiencies to the condition’s development.

This is a whole lot of nothing, but it turns out that music sales in the US were noticeably up in the first quarter of this year. Of course, when it comes to reasons why, you get totally different interpretations from different people. Unfortunately, the RIAA believes that their “education campaign” (suing everyone) has been […]

For a small fee, photo recognition software on a remote server works out precisely where you are, and sends back directions that will get you to your destination.

“Prediction is very difficult,” Nobel laureate and physicist Niels Bohr once said, “especially if it’s about the future.” If you somehow doubt the wisdom of those words, do yourself a favor and check out the Media Futures Archive, run by David Donnelly, a media consultant and communications professor at the University of Houston. The site […]

Long impractical and prohibitively expensive, desalting seawater has become cheaper as technology has improved in the past decade. The only drinking-water desalination plant built in New England so far has been a tiny one on Maine’s MacMahan Island, but as growing communities scramble for fresh water, desalination has begun to look more attractive.

The world population is rapidly aging — at least in developed countries. The number of seniors will explode in the next two decades. So researchers everywhere are trying to find new ways to help elderly people to continue to live at home. This is why a team from Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pittsburgh, University […]