Swiss researchers say people can reduce their allergy symptoms by up to one-third just by thinking about a place that is free of allergens.

A 16-year-old girl was rescued after she climbed up a 130ft crane at a building site while sleepwalking.

In pre-Web times, marketers counted noses. With the advent of the Web, eyeballs. Ears are next.

Many women have been told by their doctors to take aspirin to reduce their risk of cancer and vitamin E to lower their risk of heart disease. But two studies involving nearly 40,000 women suggest that the supplements have very little or no effect in protecting healthy women from these illnesses.

We were told that the Deep Impact web site at NASA saw 1
billion hits over the 24 hours around impact and 2 billion total so far
(bigger than the MER rovers and Cassini peak combined).

Seeing the crater produced by the Deep Impact mission’s violent encounter with Comet Tempel 1 on Monday – one of the mission’s key goals – could now be impossible. Check out these video clips.

Life-saving breast examinations could soon be performed by a robotic hand that combines ultrasound with an artificial sense of touch.

A cell phone that does it all.
New models to combine music player, Web access, higher-res camera, and PDA.

For years, specialists in intellectual property have been warning that a spate of broadly defined patents issued in the 1990s covering ”business methods” — ways of doing things, not classic inventions like a new mousetrap — were likely to trigger a wave of costly lawsuits. That warning is now coming true.