The Personal Satellite Assistant (PSA) is a robotic assistant for astronauts working in space. The PSA is about the size of a softball and has sensors for measuring gases, temperature, and air pressure.

Mobile phone service was the second-lowest ranked industry — beating only cable providers among the 40 rated — in the University of Michigan’s newest customer satisfaction index.

An implanted brain grid has been found to accurately read motor signals, a step towards using it for thought-controlled wheelchairs and prosthetics.

A pioneering in-house surveillance system could allow vulnerable elderly people living alone to remain in their homes.

Imagine if you could pick up a digital file or a note on a computer and pass it to a colleague’s computer as easily as you can give them a paper document or a Post-It note.

Russian oil company Yukos has won a rare legal victory when a court ruled it could sell cannabis vodka.

So far, at least, nanotechnology has been mostly about making new kinds of substances—nanotubes, nanowires, nanodots—or improving existing materials, like by adding tiny “nanowhiskers” to khaki pants to keep coffee or salsa away from the underlying cotton. But the sort of nanotechnology that most captures the public’s imagination is a theoretical version consisting of tiny […]

Homer Simpson’s emphatic exclamation “Doh!” has topped a British poll of favorite TV comedy catchphrases, easily beating an array of home-grown classics.