The job outlook looks bright for solar industries, with some 42,000 new
jobs by 2015, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association.

In Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, the eponymous subject keeps his youthful looks while the vagaries of age are visited upon his portrait in the attic. Now a digital version of Wilde’s idea is being developed to show you what you will look like in five years’ time if you take no exercise, [...]

Weather forecasters in Moscow have been told they face heavy fines if they get the weather wrong.

An Italian sex researcher claims he can tell a woman’s personality from the size and shape of her breasts.

Dan Gillmor:
Mainstream journalists are congenitally thin-skinned; insecurity seems almost a precondition to employment in a big-city newsroom. This has always been a notable irony, given that the journalism business routinely shoots people off their pedestals (often after putting them there in the first place).

Adam Curry is the brains behind iPodder, a tiny application that he believes has the power to challenge commercial radio. iPodder is the bastard offspring of the blog and the Apple MP3 player. It combines the hyperactive talkiness of blogs and the hipness of iPods into something utterly new: the podcast.

Production workers in software publishing–most are computer specialists–worked an average of 36.4 hours a week last year, down from 41.4 hours in 2001, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

The fears have been growing for years. US research and development is falling off. Other countries are growing more competitive. American schools are turning out too few scientists and engineers. Now the clouds on the horizon may be converging into something like a perfect storm, according to a troubling report released last week by [...]

The principal reason for Wal-Mart TV is to show a constant stream of consumer product ads purchased by companies like Kraft, Unilever, Hallmark and PepsiCo. And little wonder. According to Wal-Mart and to an agency that handles its ad sales, the TV operation captures some 130 million viewers every four weeks, making it the fifth-largest [...]

Crows capable of creating tools to dig up grubs and falcons that recognise the sound of gunshots have topped the first IQ table for birds.