A Dutch designer has created a wall of fake breasts to help male shoppers buy bras that fit their wives or girlfriends.

Roger A. Grimes:
For the past few months an acquaintance of mine has been sniffing various public wireless and wired networks around the world, looking to see what plain text passwords are visible. It was an eye-opening experiment.

Recent howling winds have been like sweet music to one local company, which says its new vertical wind turbine is substantially more efficient than traditional propeller designs.

Dick Pelletier:
Relatively speaking, seventy-five years is a mere blink of history’s eye. Yet since 1930, when this writer drew his first breath, the world has given rise to an enormous amount of innovation and technological wizardry. Just three-quarters of a century […]

An anonymous donor, recognizing the promise and potential of serious antiaging research, has added one million dollars to the coffers of the Methuselah Mouse Prize overnight. As a result, the cash prize has increased to nearly three million, far outweighing end-of-year expectations.

In a dynamic debate regarding the origins of oil, best-selling author of “Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil,” Craig Smith, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” yesterday: “We can get all the oil we need for dozens, if not hundreds of years to come.”

The holy grail of physics - gravity waves - is within reach.

Scientists in US have built a robot that is operating on biological principles and without any pre-specified instruction.

A consortium led by the University of Delaware said that it could receive nearly $53 million in funding — with the bulk of the money coming from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) — to more than double the efficiency of terrestrial solar cells within the next 50 months.