A vulnerability in many hotel television infrared systems can allow a hacker to obtain guests’ names and their room numbers from the billing system.

The endangered grey nurse shark is its own worst enemy, its young eat each other in the womb, so Australian scientists have a radical rescue plan to artificially inseminate and breed the ocean predator in test-tubes.

There are hundreds of tents on the hot and soggy campground, but this isn’t your ordinary summertime outing, considering that it includes workshops with such titles as “Politics of Psychedelic Research” or “Fun and Mayhem with RFID.”

Here’s a new excuse for not getting to work on time on a Monday morning: My car caught a virus.

This definitely ain’t no refrigerator magnet. The new super magnet at The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory weighs more than 15 tons and has a magnetic field 420,000 times that of the Earth’s — strong enough to pull a metal object out of a person’s hand and send it flying — if people were allowed [...]

So I’ve been hassled and harassed many time in the past for shooting photographs in privately owned public spaces (Starbucks, PF Chaings, Toys ‘R Us, the new burger spot on Sacramento St. at Drumm, Tosca, Grand Central Terminal in New York, etc.) but yesterday was the first time I’ve actually been harassed on a public [...]

Anyone who thought the Supreme Court’s Grokster decision would get Congress off the peer-to-peer industry’s back might want to think again.

Many countries are wasting millions of dollars planting trees because of myths that forests always help improve water flows and offset erosion, a British-led study said on Friday.

In a rare break with President Bush and anti-abortion conservatives, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Friday endorsed legislation that would expand federally funded embryonic stem cell research.

Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, began offering software developers and technology partners a trial version of its next major upgrade to Windows on Wednesday.

E-mail is for grown-ups and U.S. teenagers now prefer instant messaging to communicate with each other online, according to a survey released on Wednesday.

Imagine being able to pay for a song on the jukebox, buy a bag of groceries or gain admission to a sports arena by simply waving your phone by a machine.

Earlier this year, executives at Dell Inc. tried to shut down DellComputersSuck.com, a Web site promoting an obscure brand of computers. Dell’s lawyers dispatched a stern letter, and within a few days, the site’s owner revamped it into an online discussion group about computers. The old version disappeared from view.

There are three reasons why filmmakers distort science and technology: 1) to make things look cooler, 2) to make a story work, and 3) because they have no clue what they’re talking about.

Until recently, XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and its rival Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. were engaged in a tit-for-tat, deal-for-deal face-off. Sirius landed the NFL; XM responded with baseball. XM signed an exclusive deal with General Motors Corp.; Sirius partnered with DaimlerChrysler AG. XM scored former NPR Morning Edition host Bob Edwards; Sirius lured away [...]

Researcher says the devices will become much more popular, but Microsoft could make or break the market.

A giant patch of frozen water has been pictured nestled within an unnamed impact crater on Mars. Cool photo.

Imagine a future in which terrorists seize an embassy and police can send in a remote-controlled insect outfitted with a microscopic video camera that reveals where the gunmen are hiding and what kind of weapons they hold.

Dave Taylor: I was pleased last week to speak on why I didn’t think much of podcasting at the recent DaVinci Institute Podcasting Bootcamp event. Surrounded by people who were doing smart and interesting things with this new medium, however, I started to have some doubts, but when it was time to take the [...]

Strains of the influenza virus are constantly swapping genes among themselves and giving rise to new, dangerous strains at a rate faster than previously believed, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

“Monster mice” are eating meter-high albatross chicks alive, threatening rare bird species on a remote south Atlantic island seen as the world’s most important seabird colony.

Genetically engineered stem cells can help rats’ severed spinal cords grow back together, according to a study published on Tuesday.

Tupac and Biggie, move over. A new hip-hop feud is brewing that glamorizes not guns and ‘hos but Java and secure encryption algorithms.

Atlanta has the worst record this year, with more than 35 percent of flights delayed; Chicago’s O’Hare ranked last in 2004 with 30 percent.

An international team of biomedical engineers has demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to grow healthy new bone reliably in one part of the body and use it to repair damaged bone at a different location.