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 […]