Neil Gershenfeld, the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Centre for Bits and Atoms, has built version 1.0 of the personal fabricator.

Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky, creators of the Palm and Handspring personal digital assistants and the Treo smartphone, have formed a software company built around a powerful and unorthodox vision of how the human brain works.

NASA announced Wednesday that it will award $50,000 each to the first teams to develop a Space Age tether and a wireless method for powering robots.

Pondering life on his 30th birthday and finding something lacking, Dean Karnazes staggered home from a night out drinking with friends, put on his gardening shoes and went for a run. A 30-mile run. All night.

When he survived that, he set his sights on a 100-mile race. Then 135 miles. Then 199 miles. Then a […]

A tussle has broken out in Japan’s tradition-bound sumo world over the right to wear pants in the ring instead of that silly diaper thingee.

W Bruce Cameron: Tax season is to taxpayers what duck season is to ducks. A tax audit, though, is different - sort of like digging up the duck and shooting it again.

Researchers at UCLA have for the first time been able to capture and digitize electrical signals at the rate of 1 trillion times per second, a discovery that eventually may help scientists develop defenses against high-powered microwave weapons attacks and allow physicists to peer into the fundamental building blocks of nature.