Where one-armed bandits have always been standalone devices with a single game hard-wired into their circuitry and rotors, the industry is getting set to unroll a new generation of machines in which the games will be stored on back-office servers and downloaded at the whim of gamblers.

Low-fat fried chicken may seem like a contradiction in terms, but not to Stephen Kelleher. On a recent summer morning, he hovered over a whirling assembly line as a waterfall of gray liquid cascaded over slabs of breaded chicken. Then the magic began.

Are you a better lender than a bank is? Richard Duvall, who helped launch Britain’s largest online bank, Egg, thinks you are. His new venture, Zopa, is an eBay-like website that lets ordinary citizens borrow money from other regular Joes — no bank needed.

Scientists say redheaded women have a gene mutation that makes them less susceptible to pain – and that the discovery could lead to the development of new anesthetics.

You probably won’t spend a lot of time in spring training camp or doing intensive prep for this wacky sport, but extreme ironing is gaining in popularity. Here are some great “extreme” photos.

A new bikini which bleeps to prevent holidaymakers from burning while sleeping in the sun was shown off in Britain.

One day after NASA brought the shuttle Discovery back from low Earth orbit, a private company plans to announce a more audacious venture, a tourist trip around the Moon.

A new way of decoding DNA, potentially far cheaper and quicker than the existing method, has been developed by researchers at the Harvard Medical School.

From the day in 1970 that legendary University of Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman poured rubber onto his wife’s waffle iron to create a new running shoe sole, Nike has been a company dedicated to pushing the technological envelope in search of shoes that cushion, support and protect athlete’s feet.
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British researchers say approximately one in 25 fathers might unknowingly be raising another man’s child.