One recent study of 7,960 college students in Texas found that one in five had at least one tattoo or piercing of a body part other than the earlobe.
But health officials say they are increasingly worried about the health risks posed by such body modification practices, including physical disfigurement and bacterial and viral infections, and [...]

Last April, a low-slung aircraft, about the size of a sport utility vehicle but with batlike wings similar to those of the B-2 stealth bomber, took off, flew at 10,500 meters and then dropped a 110-kilogram inert precision bomb while zipping along at 700 kilometers per hour.

The electronically implanted Orgasmatron, named after a machine in the 1968 Jane Fonda film Barbarella, has been shown to work 10 out of 11 times.

Adam Penenberg:
Conventional wisdom says 97 percent of Google searchers don’t click past the first three pages (or 30 results). With about three-quarters of the active online population in America using search engines, according to Nielsen/NetRatings (.pdf), and 40 percent of shoppers choosing Google to locate stores and comparison shop, the difference between a [...]

Along with sharing your workload, soon your computers will also share your stress and emotions as Australian scientists are now working on developing voice recognition software capable of recognising emotions like stress, anger urgency etc, as conveyed by the user’s voice.

Soon you might be able to watch a combo of real action and computer-generated images during live TV broadcasts, thanks to a camera navigation technology now under development.

James Tatoian, chief executive of Eureka Aerospace in Pasadena, California, is developing a system that uses microwave energy to interfere with microchips inside cars.

Technology for a proposed short take-off and landing (STOL) air taxi has passed computational fluid dynamics tests conducted over the past 12 months at City University’s centre for aeronautics in London, UK.