The cellphone has acquired a host of new features in recent years, from text messaging to video. Now cellphone makers and wireless operators are shifting their attention to music, taking a swipe at the iPod and other stand-alone music players.

Big Pharma has made billions pumping up the male population. Now neuroscientists are reverse engineering the female orgasm.

Market researchers and analysts continue to buoy up podcasting’s future with latest figures suggesting a US audience alone of 56 million by 2010. More on the Podcating Boot Camp here.

A team of artists , engineers, literary scholars, and freethinkers have created an android portrait of Philip K Dick (PKD). The FedEx Institute of Technology, Hanson Robotics, and the Automation and Robotics Research Institute worked to create a robotic portrait that is a powerful memorial to the author.

A new study concludes that the large majority of men purporting to be bisexual are actually gay, while the rest are more likely to be heterosexual.

Nick Schulz: Robert Graham
feared that, in late-20th-century America, “cradle-to-grave social
welfare programs paid incompetents and imbeciles to reproduce. As a
result, ‘retrograde humans’ were swamping the intelligent minority”.

South Korean medical company Histostem Co Ltd said it plans to open the world’s first hospital exclusively providing treatment using stem cells obtained from umbilical cord blood.

NTT Docomo Inc. and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. have jointly developed a prototype direct-methanol fuel cell that can operate using a nearly undiluted methanol solution. The researchers claimed the fuel cell achieved a record average output of approximately 1 watt.

Biologists and fish and wildlife experts in Washington State say only about 100,000 sockeye salmon have returned to spawn and they want to know why.

People who lose a lot of weight tend to fatten their pocketbooks, Ohio State University researchers say.