Dave Taylor:
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Software Publishers Association talk about the billions lost to piracy and illegal copies, but their argument is based on a false premise: that every single person who bootlegs or pirates would otherwise have purchased the original.

Starting in 1994, the percentage of male births in parts of Canada began to decline sharply, and the significant drop-off continued through 2003.

The number of female graduates who shun the traditional job market to become entrepreneurs before the age of 25 leapt by almost a quarter between 2003 and last year.

An international research team has proposed new techniques that may lead to the mass production of meat reared not on the farm, but in the laboratory.

Shell Oil has demonstrated a practical way to extract oil from the shale deposits in Colorado. The oil shale deposits are the largest fossil fuel deposits in the world.

Welcome to the fourth dimension. And the fifth, and the sixth. A team of astrophysicists claims to have identified evidence that space is six-dimensional.