A new nasal vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease has cleared plaques from the brains of affected mice and will be tested in humans in 2006.

How do you tell just how smart your robot is? Perhaps you can give it the universal IQ test.

Researchers have finally found evidence for what good Catholic boys have known all along – erotic images make you go blind.

A new plan by the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) designed to protect open source projects from patent lawsuits has already attracted criticism from the US and Europe, with critics arguing the project will be effectively useless against the patent threat.

The average Briton spends over 38,000 pounds ($88,986.77) trying to find love during their lifetime, a new survey has suggested.

Dan Pink: We live in a spectacularly wealthy society, one unprecedented in human history. We have more cars in America than drivers’ licenses; the self-storage industry is now a $17 billion business– bigger than Hollywood.

Now for something really different. Veteran music synth designer Jürgen Michaelis has unleashed the fabulously strange €2499 Resonator Neuronium. As the name suggests (ahem), this little monster uses six interconnected analog neurons to generate music.

Cycling manufacturer giant Specialized has announced that it is working on prototypes for revolutionary new bikes, set to be released in 2006. Great photos.

Since the early part of last year, U.S. soldiers and marines have been experimenting with a series of sonic blasters in Iraq. The Long Range Acoustic Devices, or “LRADs,” can broadcast messages hundreds of yards away — or be ear-splittingly loud at close range.

Swedish researchers report a breakthrough discovery in how plants control their flowering.