Stem cells from hair follicles can develop into neurons, muscle and more, suggesting that hair is a potent and accessible source of cells for regenerating tissues.

Medicines that could be very useful, but which have toxic side effects, could become safer and more widely available thanks to some unexplained chemistry.

The American TV industry may be poised for a startling resurrection. “We’re going to raise people’s eyebrows this year,” vows Gerry Smith, Vice President of Dell in Singapore.

An Australian magazine has offered a $983,000 reward to anyone who can produce proof of the Tasmanian tiger — a dog-like, striped creature long believed to be extinct. Check out the slide show!

Brad Feld:
I’m been thinking lately about the number of manual things that I do that my computer should take care of for me (when I say “my computer”, I mean “my personal computing infrastructure”, which goes well beyond an individual computer at this point and includes four desktop computers, a laptop, server Al [...]

The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start.

Internet start-ups are now asking one another: “Are you long tail?”
The phrase was popularised by Wired magazine’s editor-in-chief Chris Anderson, who started the ball rolling last year with a series of talks and a long article called The Long Tail. That caught the imagination of the bloggers, who circulated and applied the meme.

A revolutionary technique using stem-cell research could soon allow women to choose breast enhancements made of living tissue instead of silicone.

Indian political activists can now buy lotions, potions and pills to cure anything from cancer to hysteria to piles — all made from cow urine or dung.

Hundreds of bacteria, fungi and yeast species, mostly collected from the wilds of Brazil, have been made available to researchers looking for new chemicals with scientific or industrial applications thru the newly formed Microbe Bank.

Hyundai Motors plans to offer XM Satellite Radio as standard equipment on all U.S. models by 2007.

An Austrian village is testing technology that could represent the future of television.
The people of Engerwitzdorf are filming, editing and producing their own regional news channel.

Politicians are beginning to see blogs are more than forums for snoops. To some, they are the ultimate cyberspace soapbox.

Across Europe, experts say roughly 30 percent of mobile users are people not focused on state-of-the-art phones or high-speed data but on low fees.

Aviation and aerospace have been dominated by government control, huge aircraft manufacturers, big airlines, and a slow pace of change. So it may seem surprising that so many tech folks, from Amazon.com Chief Executive Jeff Bezos to software veteran Vern Raburn, are launching space and aviation ventures. But this is the Star Trek Generation.

Here’s a fun trick! Very cool!
Take a picture of whatever lies directly behind your computer monitor, and set the picture as your new wallpaper. The illusion you create is one of being able to see through your monitor. Great photos!

Grafedia is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to rich media content – images, video, sound files, and so forth. Grafedia can be written in letters or postcards, on the body as tattoos, on the street, or anywhere you feel like putting it. Viewers ‘click’ on these Grafedia hyperlinks with their [...]

Nearly a quarter of western Germans and 12 percent of easterners want the Berlin Wall back — more than 15 years after the fall of the barrier that split Germany during the Cold War, according to a new survey.

Hybrid cars, trucks and buses have already hit the road. Now, make way for the Green Goat, the world’s biggest hybrid. It’s a 2,000-horsepower locomotive that radically reduces fuel consumption and emissions of pollutants.

Nature reports on finding that octopusses like to pretend to be sea coconuts or pose like hunks of coral and tiptoe around on two of their legs like Wile E Coyote pretending to be a shrub. The amazing video footage of the sneak octopi is laugh-out-loud funny!

If you have trouble waking up, try this: MIT media lab has created an alarm clock that, when you press the snooze bar, runs off into a corner, a different hiding place every day. Try hitting the snooze bar again now!

Nouveaux rich Russians, called oligarchs, spend through the nose on all kinds of rejuvenation procedures and on scientific research to create the “elixir of youth.”

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.