The potential of melatonin for the treatment of cancer is compelling, according to a new study that suggests cancer funding agencies should support clinical trials into its efficacy.

Penn State scientists have developed a non-invasive way to view effects of psychological stress in an area of the brain linked with anxiety and depression.

Google has debuted a new service called Click-to-Call, in which they will connect you by phone to any of their advertisers.

A celebrity pooch named Sam has died.
With a hairless body, crooked teeth and a tiny tuft of hair on his knobby head, Sam was billed as the ugliest dog in the world. Complete with ugly photo.

A new type of breast implant already available in other countries may soon be making its way to the United States.

Bob Sullivan:
It’s actually obscene what you can find out about people on the Internet.
Take cell phone records — literally. Your cell phone bills are there for the taking, for about $100 a month.

Seth Godin: Twenty years ago, I participated in some pricing meetings on my new line of computer games. In the room were two Stanford MBAs, two Harvard MBAs and someone from Kellogg, I think. How did we decide between $24.95, $29.95 or $34.95?

Italian experts are proposing a dramatic new solution to the watery threat facing the city of Venice.

In his video game design seminar at Parsons the New School for Design in Greenwich Village, Nick Fortugno was recently explaining the basic taxonomy of players in online role-playing games like World of Warcraft or Lineage, games that millions of people around the world play every day.

So far, 132 people have voted for the best geek novels written in English since 1932, in spite of Survey Monkey’s rubric saying free polls were limited to 100 responses. The top 20 is therefore as follows:

China’s first liquid condom went on sale today after the country’s health and drugs administration formally gave the hi-tech prophylactic the thumbs-up.