A young girl has been saved from drowning in a swimming pool by new high-tech underwater safety cameras and dramatic footage of the rescue was released today.

While “sticky-fingered” might be a felonious insult for humans, it’s an apt description for geckos, whose hairy feet give them phenomenal powers to hang by one toe on even the slipperiest vertical surfaces.

What makes a human different from a chimpanzee? Not much, but the little genetic differences clearly count for a lot, said scientists who have mapped the complete chimp genome and compared it to the human gene map.

Corporate demand for technology may be pinched by dramatically higher energy costs in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina but the eventual rebuilding of New Orleans could take up some of the slack.

Cornell University and Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a method for enabling a computer program to scan text in any of a number of languages, including English and Chinese, and autonomously and without previous information infer the underlying rules of grammar.

The promise of a hydrogen economy, which would lessen dependence on nonrenewable energy sources such as fossil fuels, hinges on the ability to produce and store large amounts of the clean-burning element. New results from experiments on a novel catalyst suggest that it can be used to coax hydrogen from water without the need for […]

A new brain-scanning technique developed by Melbourne researchers could provide hope for 40,000 Australians suffering from a crippling form of epilepsy by identifying suitable candidates for surgery that can stop their seizures.

The hospital is located aboard a ship called the Anastasis. It’s part of a Christian organization called Mercy Ships, which, since 1978, has been working to bring free medical care to those who have no access to surgical procedures like cleft-lip correction, or cataract and facial tumor removal.

Few new technologies seem to generate as many headlines these days as nanotechnology, the field of building things at scales of billionths of a meter.

Scientists have been taking a closer look at the lighting in our homes, offices and vehicles, and they’re seeing potential for a way to improve health and a new means of electronic communication.

Technology that’s now used to monitor patients in the operating room could become the first accurate way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease before death.

Physicists in Germany have created a material that is harder than diamond. Natalia Dubrovinskaia and colleagues at the University of Bayreuth made the new material by subjecting carbon-60 molecules to immense pressures. The new form of carbon, which is known as aggregated diamond nanorods, is expected to have many industrial applications (App. Phys. Lett. 87 […]

Foggy windows and lenses are a nuisance, and in the case of automobile windows, can pose a driving hazard.

Apple Computer is preparing a major announcement next week, dropping hints of something as critical to the company’s future as the release of the original iPod in 2001.

Australians now in their 20s and 30s could live to be up to 130 years old, an anti-ageing expert has predicted.

Honey is mentioned in the Bible, the Koran and the Torah as being used for healing purposes.

Dave Taylor:
While perusing my RSS subscriptions in NewsGator this evening, I bumped into what sounded like it might be an interesting article at Lockergnome. The piece was two paragraphs of commentary followed by a link to the “source article” at RealTechNews. But that wasn’t the origin of the story… the trail actually goes […]

Coffee is likely to contribute far more health-giving anti- oxidants to the British diet than fruit and vegetables, new research suggests.

Frustrated that terrorist kingpin Osama bin Laden is still on the loose nearly four years after the Sept. 11 attacks, a few military types and their scientific advisers are pondering a “what if” solution straight out of TV’s “Star Trek.”

After only a few minutes playing Nintendogs, you will appear — to any outside observer — to have completely lost your mind. You’ll be shouting commands at your Nintendo DS, peering worriedly at your tiny computerized puppy and dutifully tapping the screen to pick up virtual dog poop. “Sit, Tube! Sit!” I shouted at my […]

A New York stock clerk who had his camera phone swiped from his car this month says he was able to peer into the life of the gadget’s new owner. The thief evidently didn’t realize the copious photos and videos he was taking with the hot phone were accessible through a web account.

A splinter faction of Flickr photo-sharing community members is threatening a symbolic “mass suicide” to protest closer integration with the website’s new owner, Yahoo.

A U.S. Pentagon invention could make air combat resemble a battle scene from Star Wars, with a laser so small it can fit on a fighter jet, yet powerful enough to knock down an enemy missile in flight.

A yellow labrador walked into a job referral agency and asked if they have any openings for him. Caught momentarily off guard, the receptionist, thought for a moment and asked the dog to leave his resume and call back in an hour.

Breath tests aren’t just for drunken drivers anymore. They now can help determine if a person has cancer, whether a heart transplant is being rejected and potentially will cut down on the number of biopsies transplant patients must endure.