A microscope the size of a matchbox is allowing US biologists to peer inside the brains of live animals.

The North American wireless market is approaching saturation. A new eMarketer report looks at what comes next for mobile phone usage. Great charts.

Learning how to become a computer programmer has never been easy or fun for most people. Some would even call it boring. But now they call it a board game.

Researchers have given carbon nanotubes the ability to detect odors and tastes.
The trick, according to scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Monell Chemical Sciences Center, is coating nanoscale carbon tubes with strands of DNA.

Think your cell phone’s smart? “Cognitive radio” technology is set to take that intelligence to a new level by creating wireless devices with individual and collective reasoning and learning abilities.

US surgeons are interviewing people to create a shortlist of patients hoping to be the one to receive the world’s first face transplant.

The theory that “men are from Mars and women from Venus” is pretty much total crap, according to new research.

It’s a question older than the Parthenon: Do innovations and new technologies make us more intelligent?