In the beginning, the cell phone was a phone — handy for making calls but little else. Then manufacturers added cameras, e-mail, music, and even television to their phones, making the gadgets an essential part of daily routines.

One of the major concerns about growing human embryonic stem cells in the lab to generate tissues for medical therapies can now be laid to rest, suggest the results of a new study.

Scientists have not only identified a critical gene involved in heroin addiction relapse, but they have also successfully blocked it, eliminating cravings for the drug.

A comet has been added to the list of potentially threatening near-Earth objects maintained by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Sniffing a substance that occurs naturally in all our bodies makes people trust others with their money, a new study concludes.

The creation of a government agency to protect the Earth from a catastrophic asteroid strike is being endorsed by a senior member of the U.S. House Science Committee.

Cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-suk said Wednesday he plans to open a world stem cell bank in South Korea by the end of the year to help speed up the quest to grow patients’ own replacement tissues.

Slashdot is reporting on the introduction of ‘Rodi,’ a small-client p2p application with some great features.

An experimental supercomputer made from hardware that can reconfigure itself to tackle different software problems is being built by researchers in Scotland.

NASA’s new administrator and Texas Republican Rep. Tom DeLay (news, bio, voting record) said Tuesday the space agency will have the necessary funding to implement President Bush’s vision to send astronauts back to the moon and to Mars.

In its short lifespan, blogging has largely been a freewheeling exercise in online self-expression. Now it is also becoming a corporate job.

By using a mathematical formula designed to strengthen the immune system, a team of scientists in Spain have succeeded in curing a patient who was in the last stage of terminal liver cancer.