Technology that provides live translation of speech from one language to another has been revealed by scientists from the US and Europe.

Optical illusions that fool most people don’t seem to trick those who suffer from schizophrenia, concludes a study published in the latest issue of Current Biology.

Entries from Wikipedia, the popular free online encyclopedia written and edited by Internet users, may soon be available in print for readers in the developing world, founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday.

Wild migratory birds seem to have become the world’s public enemy number one since the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus spreading in Asia was detected this month as far west as European Russia, Turkey and Romania.

The flu vaccine-making system that serves as the best available protection against a pandemic relies on millions of chicken eggs, takes nine months to produce each year’s flu shots and has changed little since the 18th century.

Danny Ting is staring at his latest delivery from Netflix. There’s nothing wrong with the disc (season two of GI Joe). But something is different about the familiar red and white envelope. “Let me bring in my archive,” he says.

A new book by a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute is poised to make waves behind the cloistered doors of the school’s famed robotics labs, and its rights have already been optioned for a Hollywood film.

DaVinci Institute:
We’ve had a tremendous response to our ‘call for inventors’ with unusual ideas literally coming out of the woodwork. Next month’s “Night with the Visionaries” featuring the Colorado Inventor Showcase will have some of our country’s most talented idea people on hand so you can meet the creative genius behind the inventions. [...]

For the first time, scientists have linked the growth of new brain cells–induced by a compound known as ciliary neurotrophic growth factor (CNTF)–with weight loss in mice.

Seth Godin:
Sunday morning and I’m watching an eleven-year old make a stop-motion animated movie.
He’s using tools that would have cost $100,000 or more a decade ago. And today, of course, they’re supercheap.

Scientists have found the gene that controls a first vital step in creating new life.

His cranberry fields flooded with 6 inches of water, Dan Brockman drives his new harvesting machine — romantically named the ruby slipper — through the vines. Steel, finger-like rods submerged in the chilly waters quietly nudge and shake the plants.

Greater Boston’s once-sizzling home sales have cooled so much this fall that realtors are reverting to a description not heard in a decade: ”Buyer’s market.”

If a style of residential architecture can symbolize an era, the ranch house became the iconic American home in the period from roughly 1945 to 1970: By some estimates, 70% of American homes built in the 25 years after World War II were ranch houses.

Following are the Top Entry Level Employers for 2005 based on the number of new hires.

The top 500 universities in the world are listed here. Eight of the top 10 are based in the US.

A bitter debate about how to teach evolution in U.S. high schools is prompting a crisis of confidence among scientists, and some senior academics warn that science itself is under assault.

“I’m on a perpetual hunt for a sex game targeting women,” says Brenda Brathwaite, a game industry veteran and featured speaker at this week’s Women’s Game Conference in Austin, Texas.

Pain, Tedium, Danger, Disgust, Humiliation—It’s all just part of the average workday for the (often proud, more often smelly) members of our third annual honor roll of the Worst Jobs in Science.

A student-built spacecraft rocketed into space alongside several other microsatellites early Thursday, riding a Russian booster skyward in a space staged from Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

Dirty, yet abundant and easily shipped, coal is starting to challenge natural gas as the fuel of choice for new power plants.

Wasps aren’t exactly man’s best friends, but when it comes to sniffing out trouble, some scientists think they’re better, cheaper and easier to train than hounds.

For Ivan Marovic, video games are serious business.

Early nerve damage caused by repetitive strain injuries can trigger “sick worker” syndrome — characterized by malaise, fatigue and depression, and often mistaken for poor performance, according to a study by Ann Barr, Ph.D., and Mary Barbe, Ph.D., at Temple University’s College of Health Professions.

Mercedes is revealing at the Tokyo Motor Show its latest research vehicle that can produce enough electricity for several homes