The e-mail revolution is taking a drastic toll on office workers’ health, say experts.

IF you want to lose fat, getting the right amount of sleep each night may be just as crucial to shedding excess pounds as diet and regular exercise.

Thomas Sowell:
An editorial in a recent issue of the National Geographic’s “Traveler” magazine complained that kayakers in Maine found “residential development” near national parks and urged its readers to use their “influence” to prevent such things.

Despite the daily horrors in Iraq and seemingly regular spasms of terrorist-sponsored violence, the world is a much more peaceful place than it was a little more than a decade ago, a new study says.

Nano technology is now expanding into the world of MP3 players and iPods, the journal Nature Physics reports in its November issue.

Japanese mobile operator DoCoMo has developed a ring that turns your finger into a phone receiver.

Vanderbilt University scientists in Nashville, Tenn., say special microscopic beads called quantum dots might soon become the successor to the light bulb.

Johns Hopkins University scientists say they’ve discovered the presence of functional ion channels in human embryonic stem cells.

The scourge of e-mail–spam–has reinvented itself for the world of blogs, in a phenomenon experts have dubbed “splog.” And Google is in the hot seat.

Habits help us through the day, eliminating the need to strategize about each tiny step involved in making a frothy latte, driving to work and other complex routines. Bad habits, though, can have a vice grip on both mind and behavior.

Nanoscale microprocessors could get a big performance boost from a technique that enables semiconducting materials to be doped with useful impurities one atom at a time.