Women tell us they prefer a car that’s agile, easy to park, with good visibility. They like to sit higher and rightly insist on plenty of storage space. High-tech gizmos are not as important as reasonable prices and low running costs. Space for growing families is essential in many cases and safety is a major [...]

This is the coolest space picture you’ll see all month! This fantastic skyscape lies at the eastern edge of giant stellar nursery W5, about 7,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.

A Chinese peasant woman who suffered a brain hemorrhage was left at the undertakers alive for cremation because her family could no longer afford hospital treatment.

Deleting a gene thought to extend lifespan has counterintuitively yielded the longest recorded life extension in any organism.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have found clues into ways to make magnets longer lasting and more powerful.

If there were a competition for “Internet Buzzword of the Year,” last year’s winner would have been “social networking,” as a cohort of companies such as Ryze, Tribe, LinkedIn, Friendster, Spoke, and Visible Path, rolled out new or improved services that let Web users create online mirrors of their circle of real-life acquaintances.