Global Positioning System monitors are the latest rage in crime-fighting. Jurisdictions in half the states are reportedly using them.

Ecstasy and anti-depressant drugs such as Prozac have the potential to stop cancer cell growth, research has found.

Two Sandia National Laboratories engineers working on a way to make natural gas drilling equipment better say it also can help make lighter weight airplanes, better electric cars and earthquake monitoring systems.

Soccer moms, taco shops, even real estate developers – mainstream America is starting to pull the plug and rely on homegrown solar energy. Call it the dawn of the hygrid age.

Now this is an old shoe. Archaeologists said Tuesday they found a 2,000-year-old shoe hidden in a hollow tree used to construct an ancient well near Wellington in southwest England.

On a warm afternoon on Chicago’s West Side, a young African-American man leans against the wall of the One Stop Food and Liquor store at the corner of Chicago Avenue and Homan Street. His puffy black jacket is so oversize that the collar hangs halfway down his back. Thirty feet up, a camera mounted on [...]

Building Upon Carbon Nanotube Technology, Motorola Prepares to Revolutionize the Flat Panel Display Industry

Seth Godin:
Fear of failure is actually overrated as an excuse. Why? Because if you work for someone, then more often than not, the actual cost of the failure is absorbed by the organization, not you. If your product launch fails, they’re not going to fire you. The company will make a bit less [...]

Several of the Japanese capital’s railway companies introduced the single-sex carriages Monday as part of a city effort to tackle the problem of men who take advantage of overcrowding to grope female passengers.

Exercise has been shown to activate hundreds of genes, and differences in their activation may partly explain differences in athletic ability.