An instrument onboard Cassini recorded a flurry of tiny particles pelting the spacecraft as it crossed Saturn’s dusty ring plane, and produced this audio file.

A driver who told a parking attendant “You are nobody!” has felt the weight of Italy’s legal system, which ruled the seemingly innocuous words constituted slander — and fined him heavily.

Adult skin cells have been transformed into neural stem cells, a feat that could lead to treatments for neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.

The focal length of a lens means that a camera has to have a certain thickness - or so we might think. Insect eyes show that this need not be the case: A camera chip based on the compound-eye principle can be used for person recognition and is as thin as paper.

U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell has started his own Web log to reach out to the high-tech community and bypass the scores of Washington lobbyists who typically skulk around his office.

Some of the most spectacular images ever of Saturn’s enigmatic rings have been returned by the Cassini space probe.