The mobile Internet - or, the World Wide Web that you can get on your cellphone or handheld device - has had an incredibly lengthy and labored gestation.

For podcast lovers, two new search engines now offer to do for podcasting what Technorati does for blogs by letting users search podcasts by keyword to single out audio that suits their interests.

Coming up on Sunday, December 4 @ 9/8c is the highly acclaimed show about the life and times of Leonardo da Vinci on the History Channel. Great photos.

Even if you could get more RAM for your brain, the extra storage probably wouldn’t make it easier for you to find where you left your car keys.

Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It’s all part of falling passionately in love — and scientists now tell us the feeling won’t last more than a year.

In the 1930s, French scientists determined that bees could not fly. They knew, of course, that the insects could and did fly. But according to their calculations, this feat was aerodynamically impossible.

The list of promiscuous poets and artists is long, as is the list of poets’ and artists’ children who suffer from mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. Now new research links creative ability and sexual success–and explains why something as seemingly maladaptive as schizophrenia would persist among humans.

Iowa’s rich topsoil and climate have nourished some of the nation’s most plentiful corn and soybean crops. Tyler O’Brien wants to learn more about their influence on rotting corpses.

A terrorist would kill for this view. The 11th-floor office of Fortress America, an Arlington, Virginia, company located at the heart of the disaster economy, is surrounded by opportunities for mayhem.

Although Internet domain names may be getting longer or more complex as Web sites creatively squeeze into the crowded “.com” address space, most single-letter names like “a.com” and “b.com” remain unused.

Hurricane-ravaged New Orleans will deploy the nation’s first municipally owned wireless Internet system that will be free for all users, part of an effort to jump-start recovery by making living and doing business in the city as attractive as possible.

Robert Cringely:
How can I top last week’s prediction about Google’s shipping container data centers? By explaining a bit more about how the system came to be and how it will work.

The Virtual Air Guitar project, developed at the Helsinki University of Technology, adds genuine electric guitar sounds to the passionately played air guitar.

Two researchers in Mississippi observed dolphins at play and cataloged 317 different game-like behaviors.

A highly dexterous, bio-inspired artificial hand and sensory system that could provide patients with active feeling, is being developed by a European project called cyberhand.

Cardiff University scientists say they’ve developed precision machinery so sophisticated it can drill a hole narrower than a human hair.

Stand by for dramatic and radical change in the emerging passenger space travel industry—but don’t count on NASA or major aerospace service providers to propel the public into space anytime soon.

Computer systems aren’t what they used to be—and IT is taking full advantage of that fact. As the durability and reliability of servers, desktop PCs and laptops have improved, organizations are keeping equipment longer.

In Tokyo, police arrested a former computer programmer Monday for allegedly publishing a fabricated news article on a fake Yahoo Japan news Web site saying China had invaded the Japanese island of Okinawa.

Type in a band you like, and this site will find you other bands you’ve never heard of that you will also like.

One in six U.S. Internet users have sold goods and services online and 2 percent do so on a given day, a new study found.

For you last-minute shoppers, here’s the annual list of the ten worst products of the year — as scored and reviewed by PC Magazine Labs.

Dartmouth College researchers have created a robot so small that 200 of them could fit on the tip of your finger. Interesting photo.

Brain chips that enable us to control machines with our thoughts. Kidneys and lungs built to order in the lab. Pills to make you smarter and more creative. An implant that gives you a tan and protects against skin cancer. All these innovations are in development; some are already being tested on human subjects.

Southern accents are moving toward extinction as more and more southerners are seeking to eliminate or modify their accent.