Resveratrol may be the first real antiaging drug, but don’t drink to your health just yet.

A schoolteacher has been suspended in Zimbabwe for allegedly giving pupils the choice of being caned or suckling her breasts.

Hypnosis can double a woman’s chances of getting pregnant after in-vitro fertilisation treatment, according to new research.

A Singaporean student looks to have smashed the world record for high speed text messaging.

Monkeys and apes who are good at deceiving their peers also have the biggest brains relative to their body size. The finding backs the “Machiavellian intelligence” theory.

A Japanese toymaker claims to have invented a gadget that can help people control their dreams.

For the first time a woman has become pregnant after having thin slices of her ovaries removed and frozen during cancer treatment, and then re-implanted.

Virtual, moving fences controlled from a laptop could one day herd cattle to fresh fields for grazing, a roboticist told the MobiSys 2004 conference in Boston, Massachusetts, on Sunday.

According to a new study by Cingular Wireless, men on the company’s network are 16% more talkative than women for the fourth year in a row.

Dust-sized wireless communications nodes, pinhead-size cameras, and other sensors; contact-lens video displays and wearable computers controlled by subvocal speech and other muscle movements; and the ability to google anything, anywhere–we will soon be able to know almost everything about everyone.

While the auction might be silent, there is bound to be a lot of buzz surrounding the silent auction technology featured at this weekend’s Denver Polo Classic.

Landing mobile bases on the moon is an idea whose time has come, according to a NASA researcher.

An opera featuring rape, torture and masturbation, a nude bass singing an aria in the shower and a cross-dressing hero who rounds off the night by slaughtering a troupe of semi-naked prostitutes has caused a scandal in Berlin.

An extract of prickly pear cactus could herald help for hangovers, quelling some of the wretched symptoms that strike the morning after a night out.

Men who carry mobile phones in their trouser pockets may be at risk of damaging their sperm count, according to research by Hungarian scientists.

Children who watch a lot of television produce less melatonin, new research suggests - the “sleep hormone” has been linked to timing of puberty.

Micropayments are getting traction on the Internet as a way to perform small-ticket transactions such as downloading a song or accessing other online content.

After years of research and testing, Walt Disney Imagineering has perfected a new innovation in fireworks launch technology, marking the pyrotechnic industry’s first major breakthrough in decades.

Even though we create and exchange lots of information electronically these days, there’s always some scrap of paper sitting around begging to be scanned into a computer.

Dave Barry: I have written a blockbuster novel. My inspiration was The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown, which has sold 253 trillion copies in hardcover because it’s such a compelling page-turner. NOBODY can put this book down:

MOTHER ON BEACH: Help! My child is being attacked by a shark!

LIFEGUARD (looking up from The DaVinci Code) […]

The U.S. government has recently awarded patents to such inventions as cashless vending machines, remote-control houses, and, oh yes, Washington Mutual bank branches.

Tim O’Reilly has written up a talk he has given about the open source paradigm shift, which he describes as fundamental and long-term changes in the technology world brought on by the widespread adoption of Free and open source software.

Technology that adds intelligence to computers poses a far more serious threat to jobs than low-wage countries, a research firm said Friday.

Anti-inflammatory drugs commonly used to relieve pain after shoulder surgery may impair healing, new animal research suggests.

Virtual reality showed itself to be a not-ready-for-prime-time technology when it debuted in the 1980s. As Stephen Ellis, head of the Advanced Displays and Spatial Perception Laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center, explains in a recent agency analysis of VR, “Helmets and their optics were too heavy. Computers were too slow. Touch-feedback systems often didn’t […]