Wind turbines stationed up to 30 miles offshore and in waters up to 120 feet deep could be a key part of China’s renewable energy program in two or three decades.

The world’s oldest profession is now being taught in the world’s newest school.

Dan Gillmor:
It’s too early to predict that the housing mania is about to subside, but the larger economic forces are lining up in alarming ways.

For the first time, mice have been placed into a type of hibernating suspended animation using a technique that could buy people time for better treatments.

Go ahead and bellyache about blogs. But you cannot afford to close your eyes to them, because they’re simply the most explosive outbreak in the information world since the Internet itself.

Fake checks have been the stock in trade of online fraud artists for years. Now authorities are noting a surge in schemes involving sophisticated counterfeiting of a different form of payment: United States postal money orders. And the fleecing of victims often begins in an e-mail in-box.

It’s been just more than two years since CEO Hector Ruiz unveiled Advanced Micro Devices’ new Opteron server microprocessor. To the surprise of some, the company was able to sign up IBM right away to use the new chip.

Krassimir Petrov:
Having recently completed Rothbard’s “America’s Great Depression”, I couldn’t help draw the parallels between America’s roaring 20’s and China’s roaring economy today, and I couldn’t help conclude that China will inevitably fall in a depression just like America did during the 1930s.

Adam Penenberg:
It turns out that Wal-Mart, the world’s most profitable retailer, and Google, the virtual world’s most profitable search seller, have a lot more in common than you might think.

A next generation pill bottle has been designed for Target with unique features to improve readability and usability.
Check out this design.

Scientists say Russia’s x-ray vision girl, who claims to be able to see inside the human body, can also spot internal injuries just by looking at a photograph.

Visitors to Hamburg parks are being warned to watch out for exploding toads.

Using a new electrically-assisted microbial fuel cell (MFC) that does not require oxygen, Penn State environmental engineers and a scientist at Ion Power Inc. have developed the first process that enables bacteria to coax four times as much hydrogen directly out of biomass than can be generated typically by fermentation alone.

Bill Gates is on a mission to build a Google killer. What got him so riled? The darling of search is moving into software—and that’s Microsoft’s turf.

When it comes to cross-border theft of trade secrets, there are more foreigners spying on U.S. corporations than ever, according to Todd Davis, an FBI supervisor in Sacramento.

Defendants in high-profile criminal and civil cases are increasingly using the Internet in an attempt to influence the public, the media and even potential jurors.

You’d find 23-year-old CEO Tom Szaky who’s quick to state firmly, “I’m not an environmentalist,” but a capitalist who can’t resist “getting paid for garbage.”

Of the super powers one might like to have, mind-reading would likely land near the top of the list for many people.

Depending on the outcome of discussions in Congress, television as we know it may end at exactly midnight Dec. 31, 2006.
That’s the date Congress targeted, a decade ago, for the end of analog television broadcasting and a full cutover to a digital format.

With the reins in one hand and a whip in the other, the purple-jerseyed rider prodded a camel around the track.

But this jockey wasn’t the usual underfed boy. The jockey was a robot.

Workers distracted by phone calls, e-mails and text messages suffer a greater loss of IQ than a person smoking marijuana, a British study shows.

Eat your way to the bottom of almost any bag of popcorn and there they are: the rock-hard, jaw-rattling unpopped kernels known as old maids.

A South African zoo is trying to persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a bad smoking habit.

Charlie, a grown male chimp and the Bloemfontein Zoo, has been picking up cigarettes thrown to him by visitors and smoking them — a habit he probably picked up by observing humans, zoo officials told the SAPA news agency […]

Mice have been placed in a state of near suspended animation, raising the possibility that hibernation could one day be induced in humans.

The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in England is the only place you are likely to find an Ethernet port that looks like a book.