There once was a man who was in a horrible accident, and was injured. But the only permanent damage he suffered was the amputation of both of his ears.

Already being intensely studied as an agent for cleaning up toxic waste, a strain of bacteria has now surprised researchers with its ability to build conducting nanowires.

The space for high-speed wireless networking is getting mighty crowded. Techworld reports that a new company, Sibeam, has entered the fray, hinting at a 60GHz technology to compete with Wimax.

Ewan Hardie, who has more than 70 criminal convictions, says prison wardens at Craiginches took too long to treat him when he swallowed a fork and has filed suit.

Aging brains have been found to produce diminished amounts of critical growth factors that spur the birth of new neurons in the brain’s learning and memory center.

In August 1991, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the first website. Fourteen years on, he tells BBC Newsnight’s Mark Lawson how blogging is closer to his original idea about a read/write web.

One of Canada’s main airports is to install a sophisticated radar system that can automatically detect debris on the runway.

The wind-tunnel effect created by the hundreds of thousands of cars and trucks that travel Highway 401 each day makes Centennial College’s Scarborough campus an ideal location for a small wind turbine to feed power back to the school.

Thieves tunneled into a bank in northeastern Brazil and stole $68 million, the biggest bank heist in the nation’s history.