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. [...]