Apparently, England is miles ahead of the U.S. when it comes to technology and robots. And don’t even get us started about Japan.

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Scientists coax gold particles to emit light strong enough to view single nanoparticles.

For budding time travellers, the future (or should that be the past?) is starting to look bleak.

Wind power could generate enough electricity to support the world’s energy needs several times over, according to a new map of global wind speeds that scientists say is the first of its kind.

Whiz kid inventor Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen’s popular BitTorrent protocol.

Based on the work of linguist Noam Chomsky, scientists now believe human language ability also is in large part innate — flexible until puberty when the ability to absorb languages is great, then much more restricted by rules learned in adulthood.

Google is introducing a way for users to create personalized Web pages with customized news, stock prices, weather, and other information.

Seth Godin:
Jeff Reed writes,
“I am the music director of an orchestra that is entering its sixth season, which is located in a town of 50,000 people. Our budget was about $15,000 the first season and it will be nearly $500,000 this season. We have always had balanced budgets and will finish [...]