While the ‘living’ androids portrayed in the blockbuster film I, Robot may never be built, one Lothians firm has developed an “emotion sensor” which could help cars of the future make better drivers out of us.

Scientists hope to soon be able to spin spider silk without the aid of spiders—achieving an age-old human quest to harness one of nature’s most remarkable materials.

A micromachine that walks using muscles that it grew for itself has been developed in a US laboratory.

Airbus SAS, the world’s largest plane maker, tomorrow will unveil its A380, the world’s largest passenger plane. Cool photos.

A woman who admitted drinking three glasses of Listerine mouthwash had a blood-alcohol content more than three times the legal limit when she was arrested for drunken driving.

Rich Karlgaard:
Big trends have a way of sneaking past us. Consider the Web. In 2005 it may seem like an old story, but let’s pause to remember that as a commercial product the World Wide Web is just a mere decade old. (And if you lay claim to having surfed the Web during [...]