North Carolina State University researchers are reportedly looking deep under water for clues on how to redesign plants for life deep in outer space.

Auto researchers are working on the next generation of driving assistance systems that will in theory make it possible to navigate a car to its destination without a driver at the wheel.

A growing number of countries, including China, Brazil, India and Cuba — as well as the European Union — are questioning U.S. control over the Internet.

A team of Stanford electrical engineers has discovered how to modulate, or switch on and off, a beam of laser light up to a 100 billion times a second with materials that are widely used in the semiconductor industry.

Big-name political bloggers are banding together to try to bring order to the sometimes-chaotic blogosphere.

There’s a widespread notion that pornographers eagerly jump on new technology long before it goes mainstream, but with Apple Computer’s new video-playing iPod, the adult industry is largely staying away.

Dave Taylor:
One of the greatest challenges in the innovation economy is the successful transfer of research into the commercial realm. I experienced this firsthand when I spent a few years working at HP’s R&D Labs: while we were creating the future, none of the product divisions were interested in helping “productize” our inventions. [...]

For the first time, scientists have pinpointed an area of the brain involved in a woman’s menstrual cycle.

Edward Jay Epstein:
I recently demonstrated my high-definition projector by showing scenes from the beautifully shot Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. First, I played an HD recording made by the TiVo-style digital recorder that Time Warner Cable provides. Next, I played the same scenes from a DVD. The HD recording was so clearly [...]

Thomas Frey: Seven teams failed to win NASA’s “Beam Power Challenge”, a competition designed to create a solution for powering the space elevator. There may have been a number of reasons why no one won either of these challenges, but the amount of money they were offering as a prize was insulting [...]

Wind turbines will join oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast under a new plan to build the first U.S. offshore wind energy farm, the state announced on Monday.

Taking a long-term view isn’t easy nowadays.

With the flick of a switch, a searchlight beam illuminated a photovoltaic array, and a prototype space elevator called Snow Star One lifted off the ground. As the humble assemblage of solar cells, metal braces and off-the-shelf rollers rose slowly from the launch pad and up a long blue tether, a small crowd of spectators [...]

A unique system that can produce Hydrogen inside a car using common metals such as Magnesium and Aluminum was developed by an Israeli company.

A CBS News public opinion survey indicates most respondents do not accept the theory of evolution.

X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis kicked off the PopTech conference here with a lofty goal on Thursday: “Our mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs,” he said in his opening-day address.

Robert Mason (not his real name) would love to spend a few minutes during lunch catching up on blog posts from around the web, but his company doesn’t allow it. The financial institution where Mason works as a vice president has security filters set up to block access to — among other things — any [...]

YOU might think Norman Packard is playing God. Or you might see him as
the ultimate entrepreneur. As founder and CEO of Venice-based company
ProtoLife, Packard is one of the leaders of an ambitious project that has in its
sights the lofty goal of life itself. His team is attempting what no one else has
done before: to create [...]

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.

Scentuelle is a special patch designed to help stimulate the libido. Each one is impregnated with a unique combination of aromas known to affect the sex drive.

US military experts are attempting to create an army of super-human soldiers who will be more intelligent and deadly thanks to a microchip implanted in their brains.

Here is a scale model of the city of San Francisco – made entirely of Jell-O. Perhaps this is off the charts from a craziness standpoint, but great photos.

Nobody seems happy with the U.S. credit-card industry these days — not the consumers who use the cards, the retailers and merchants who accept them, or the lawmakers who oversee the industry.

A company from Santiago Chile is selling airbags for motorcycle drivers.

Flicking a switch to fight hypertension could soon be possible following research that found brain stimulation can alter people’s blood pressure.