When Margit Stange of Berkeley was ready to buy a car last week, she didn’t run out to a dealer. She turned to the Internet.

Can subterranean laboratories ease safety woes over crops that sprout medicine?

Genetic science is racing ahead toward a day when doctors will be able to predict what diseases you’re susceptible to. But do you really want to know?

The upcoming Podcasting Boot Camp is well suited for the world of education. Listening to digital audio content won’t replace reading, listening to live presentations, or the multitude of other ways learners take in information, but it can augment those methods. The following are ways that podcasting can contribute to the learning process.

An innovative concept for an Antarctic vehicle was unveiled last week at the Royal College of Art’s. Working closely with experts from the British Antarctic Survey, award-winning designer James Moon has come up with a lightweight, compact eco-friendly vehicle for use in one of the Earth’s most extreme environments.

Walt Disney Co. officials consulted Chinese feng shui experts before building Hong Kong Disneyland, making changes such as tilting the site of the park several degrees and setting up “no fire zones” in kitchens.

Every year, more than 70,000 reports of UFO sightings come into UFO research organizations around the world. While it is true that nine out of 10 sightings are explainable, it is also true that only one in 10 is ever reported, and each year the number of reports increases.

Game fans like to gripe about the standard QWERTY keyboard layout. Everyone’s hands are sized differently, after all, and every player has a distinct way of darting around the keys to dodge a demon or win a fleet match of shoot and retreat. Here’s something new.

The Leo Burnett advertising agency, which created the iconic macho Marlboro Man, said a new study it conducted found that half the men in most parts of the world don’t know what is expected of them in society and three-quarters of them think images of men in advertising are out of touch with reality.

First it was the Boyfriend Pillow. Then came the Lap Pillow. Now the kooky pillow people have struck again. The pictures tell the story.

Buoyed by the Supreme Court’s decision to expand cities’ power of eminent domain, New York City filed today to acquire the state of New Jersey for commercial development.

East Japan Railway Co. on Friday unveiled a new shinkansen in the town of Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture, that will run at a speed of 360 kph, which may make it the world’s fastest train.

Pet owners can hope to find their lost animals using a new collar beacon developed by scientists that uses Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite signals to locate them.

Scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a breakthrough method of creating the world’s tiniest manufactured particles for delivering drugs and other organic materials into the human body.

With the proliferation of gigabyte storage on cellphones, PDAs, MP3 players, PMPs and of course laptops, those corporate secrets and sensitive data are everywhere. So what are you poor IT bastards to do? Well, plenty, but it’s gonna cost ya.

The word “socialism” carries a negative connotation among most Americans — except, of course, when the economic ideology results in lower prices for consumers.
Take the example of Canada’s pharmacies, where people can buy prescription drugs at far cheaper prices than anywhere in the United States.

Billions of tiny mechanical levers could be used to store songs on future MP3 players and pictures on digital cameras.

Surprised doctors in Florida found a bullet lodged in the tongue of a male patient who had checked himself into the hospital complaining of a bad headache.

Brad Feld:
I’ve been trying to figure out how to invest in Podcasting. I have a bunch of exposure to it via my investments in FeedBurner and NewsGator (hint – coming soon – maybe even this week). However, I don’t listen to Podcasts much because I’m a reader, I’ve never been a […]

Wake Forest University researchers say they grew stem cells from human skin into fat, muscle and bone cells — a potential source to fix tissue and organs.

Burglars beware, robot guards are here.
In an idea straight out of science fiction, robots could soon begin patrolling Japanese offices, shopping malls and banks to keep them safe from intruders.

The best place to sell magazines could be in the gym locker room, according to a study which found that pheromones in male sweat makes men opt for a manly read.

It’s a lot easier to gain — and keep — wealth by building it at a measured pace. Here are some simple ways of doing so.

We had no idea when we published the “100 Greatest Gadgets of All Time” in March that people would have such strong opinions about it. Immediately after the issue hit newsstands, a delicious blend of loving praise and good, old-fashioned psychosis began to flow into our inbox.

The 30ft sculpture, The Writer, will be on Parliament Hill for four months before returning to Italy. Great photo.