If the car doesn’t start, you are too drunk to drive. That is the premise behind a $600 sensor that can be installed in a steering wheel or in gloves and will test a driver’s skin to determine alcohol consumption.

Scientists are scanning brain activity in the hopes of catching sight of the physical mechanisms that determine whether you prefer Coke over Pepsi.

Stuck in traffic and sick of Howard Stern, you may soon be able to tune in to the music collection of the person in the car in front of you.

Psychologists and salesmen call it the “chameleon effect”: People are perceived as more honest and likeable if they subtly mimic the body language of the person they’re speaking with.

Edison’s early movie projector, Tesla’s alternating ­current, Ferris’s first massive steel wheel - we’ve come a long way from the scientific and technological marvels that drew huge crowds to Chicago for the 1893 World’s Fair.

Toyota Motor Corp. aims to start selling robots that can help look after elderly people or serve tea to guests by 2010, the Asahi daily reported on Tuesday.

The apparent BBC story about 42 members of the Cambodian Midget Fighting League being massacred by a single lion was nothing more than an elaborate hoax. It was created to ’settle’ a dispute between friends.

Around 1452 the first operational printing press was created, followed in 1799 by lithographic printing. Now, these inventions are reflected in the world’s first bacterial printing press.

Could the petroleum joyride — cheap, abundant oil that has sent the global economy whizzing along with the pedal to the metal and the AC blasting for decades — be coming to an end?

Berzin is the founder and chief technology officer of GreenFuel Technologies, a Cambridge, Mass.-based start-up that has a novel approach to energy and pollution control.

Sam Hughes has come up with an interesting top ten list for destroying the earth completely.

Scientists have successfully generated new lines of human embryonic stem cells that are exact genetic matches for individual patients, according to a new study.

In the new study, scientists applied voltage to the electron in a quantum dot, which is a tiny, nanometer-sized semiconductor.

Last year a high-profile panel of expertsknown as the Copenhagen Consensus ranked the world’s most pressing environmental, health and social problems in a prioritized list.

Physicists have never been able to explain or predict the constants of our universe. Therefore, some speculate the constants may not be constant at all.

Researchers may have discovered a genetic archive that would allow us to, among other things, hedge against hard times by genetically recoding RNA to fight the threat.

When I first saw the press release for the A4Tech “battery-free” wireless optical mouse, I figured there was some kind of marketing wizardry involved.

The fight was slated when an angry fan contested Yang Sihamoni, President of the Cambodian Midget Fighting League, claiming that one lion could defeat his entire league of 42 fighters.

In recent news, a web log became the primary piece of evidence in convicting Jin Lin, 23, of first degree murder.

New Scientist is reporting on “13 things that don’t make sense,” an interesting list of topics and explanations to say the least.

The creator of the hugely popular Sims game is working on an ambitious title in which you can truly be God.

Witnessing gun violence can double the likelihood of a teenager committing serious violence in the following two years, suggests a new study by US researchers.

The computer used to kick-start a global worm outbreak in March 2004 has been traced using crucial kinks in its code.

“Gender-bending” chemicals mimicking the female hormone oestrogen can disrupt the development of baby boys, suggests the first evidence linking certain chemicals in everyday plastics to effects in humans.

Scientists working with embryonic stem cells or transgenic organisms are sometimes perceived as evil: modern-day Frankensteins meddling with the building blocks of life.