Three lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives called on Friday for the Internet’s core infrastructure to remain under U.S. control, echoing similar language introduced in the Senate earlier this week.

Intellectual-property protection can be good for the technology industry as well as for its customers, says Kenneth Cukier. But it requires careful handling.

The average American spends more time using media devices —television, radio, iPods and cell phones — than any other activity while awake, says a new study from Ball State University.

US government regulators have approved what would be the first transplant of foetal stem cells into human brains.

Cleaner, smarter automobiles are the theme for the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show in Japan, although high performance and downright wacky concept vehicles have also been revealed.

Since the early 1990s, Bill Gates has had a consistent lament: the standard PC or notebook takes far too long to boot up. Of course, Gates’ company, Microsoft, is one of the main culprits: Windows grows bigger and more complex with every release, meaning there’s more operating-system code for computers to load into main memory […]

The main light source of the future will almost surely not be a bulb. It might be a table, a wall, or even a fork.

Sex and romantic entanglements among astronauts could derail missions to Mars and should therefore be studied by NASA, warns a top-level panel of US researchers.

A camera lense that allows one to see through clothes and other hard surfaces has been introduced by a US Company.

The top 10 deadliest animals in the U.S. complete with slideshow.

Using the parts inside a single molecule, scientists have constructed the world’s smallest car. It has a chassis, axles and a pivoting suspension. The wheels are buckyballs, spheres of pure carbon containing 60 atoms apiece.

Greenland’s icecap has thickened slightly in recent years despite concerns that it is thawing out due to global warming, says an international team of scientists.

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.

When babies receive shots against diseases like polio and measles, their vaccinations may in the future include protection against getting fat, according to researchers.

Rich Karlgaard:
Flying on the Delta Shuttle with Bill Gates 12 years ago, I asked, “What Microsoft competitor worries you most?”

“Goldman Sachs.” I gave Gates a startled look. Was Microsoft about to try the investment banking business? “Software,” he said, “is an IQ business. Microsoft must win the IQ war, or we won’t have […]