W Bruce Cameron:
Last month a South Korean company began offering a service that will enable dog owners to communicate with their pets via cell phones.

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A University of Chicago survey suggests 76 percent of physicians believe in God and 59 percent believe in some sort of afterlife.

A spectacular, luminous ring offers the best evidence yet that a nearby star is circled by a newly formed solar system. Check out this amazing photo.

New muscle, complete with blood vessels, has been grown from scratch in the laboratory and implanted into a living mouse.

The BlueGene/L machine currently under construction at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US was crowned top number-cruncher.

Scores of companies are betting that delivering audio content of all kinds to handsets could be bigger than camera phones and ringtones.

Doctors in India are baffled by a teenage boy who appears to have started having periods.

Dave Taylor:
Today I’m attending a search engine research workshop run by Brad Fallon in Atlanta, Georgia. My part of this workshop is to talk about how blogging can help your search engine placement, but what I’m actually talking about is whether search engine results placement (SERP) is a meaningful measure of whether […]

Using computer-controlled temperature and LEDs , an underground rice and vegetable farm called Pasona O2 in Tokyo hopes to have its first harvest this summer (2005). Great photos.

This is a radio-controlled gold ball that acts like a normal ball until you press a button.

A little spherical spacecraft may soon be buzzing around the exterior of the International Space Station and the space shuttles to inspect for any damage.

Around 35% of music consumers now download tracks legally via the Internet and the percentage will soon pass the 40% who have pirated music, according to a new survey released Monday by Entertainment Media Research.

Using a cellphone — even with a hands-free device — may distract drivers because the brain cannot handle both tasks, U.S. researchers said.

Scientists have identified a genetic profile that appears to enable women over 45 to conceive naturally.

If you live in an apartment and are dreaming of owning a fireplace, well, now you can, thanks to Australian company Ecosmart. Great photos.

Thomas Friedman:
So I have a question: If I am rooting for General Motors to go bankrupt and be bought out by Toyota, does that make me a bad person?

Napster’s recently revealed plan to extend its music service to mobile phones has a long way to go before cells become iPod killers.

A U.S. study finds that insects quickly develop resistance to genetically engineered crops when single-gene plants are grown near double-gened ones.

For women, it seems, sex is a big turn-off, reveals a brain scanning study. It shows that many areas of the brain switch off during the female orgasm - including those involved with emotion.

The number of houses for sale even before they’re built has jumped 47% the past 12 months, adding to worries that overbuilding and speculation could bring the housing boom to a bust.

Best Buy last week said it hired 1,500 more employees for its “Geek Squad,” a team of for-hire tech-support staffers. The retail giant now has about 8,000 staffers taking phone calls, fixing electronics brought to stores, and traveling to homes and offices to solve problems. Best Buy hopes to have 12,000 next year.

Here are some great photos of an extraordinary RV. Gone are the days of feeling like you’re living in a small little trailer house.

Thomas Sowell: The disappearance of an American teenager in Aruba has been more than a tragedy for her and for her family. It is the latest of many tragedies to strike trusting people who have long been sheltered from dangers and who have acted as if there were no dangers.

Many U.S. medical students and residents in hospitals suffer from sleep deprivation and fatigue, an American Medical Association member survey revealed.

A British study finds that single adults are more likely to be angry than those with partners and that women are more ill-tempered than men.