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.