Lithium ion batteries have been powering cell phones and laptops for years. But they’ve never been used for more power-hungry machines like power tools and hybrid vehicles, mainly because of their high cost, their inability to provide adequate current, and safety questions.

In 2000, when C. J. Kettler was the president for sales and marketing at Oxygen Media, she boasted that the company was a “point of convergence” between cable television and the Internet.

Military hardware has orbited Earth for decades, but no actual weapons have ever been deployed in space. That may change soon—and it may launch a major space race.

A prototype camera made by a Stanford University graduate student could herald the end of fuzzy, poorly lit photos.

Korean robot makers produced a stroke of genius this week as a walking, talking Albert Einstein greeted Apec delegates at a fair exhibiting the latest in IT gadgetry. Great photo!

A state-funded research team of South Korean scientists has developed the world’s thinnest metallic wire for semiconductor chips, the science and technology ministry.

The sun has stopped shining in Rattenberg, Austria. But with the aid of a few mirrors, the winter darkness that grips this small town could soon be brightened up with pockets of sunshine.