Researchers have found that inserting an animal gene into tomatoes can produce hardier tomatoes.

Silicon Valley, Boston and Austin may have some new competition–and not just from Bangalore, Shanghai and Singapore.

Alcohol has been a drink of choice for people for thousands of years, but scientists still do not know just how the stuff affects brain function when people become intoxicated.

A Jordanian man divorced his wife after discovering that she was also his virtual girlfriend.

A Romanian woman who gave birth to a baby boy almost two months ago has just delivered his twin brother.

Seth Godin:
Yes, it’s only been ten years.
And despite our memories of the crash of 2000, here are ten reasons why I believe that there’s about to be a significant flourishing of Net companies and business successes, not to mention extremely cool things for the rest of us:

For this report, we evaluated 23 kinds of latex condoms. We also purchased two types made of polyurethane, marketed to people allergic to latex.

Tiny particles embedded with light-emitting molecules have allowed researchers to “see” a tumor below the skin.

US scientists have thought up a new way to create a second home – by warming up the atmosphere of Mars.

You arrive at the concert hall and, instead of getting a program, pick up a small piece of electronic kit that could revolutionize the experience of live symphonic music.

The project, known as the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD), is part of the US National Science Foundation’s $200 million EarthScope survey of North America. EarthScope researchers will install seismometers, strain meters and GPS positioning devices at hundreds of sites across the continent. But SAFOD will take that research to a whole new [...]