It’s said that in electronics, smaller is always better. If that’s the case, the iPod may have found a challenger for portable music-playing supremacy.

Tim Armstrong, Google’s advertising sales vice president, said in an interview before the Reuters Media and Advertising Summit that 2005 marked the turning point when advertisers switched from testing to investing in the decade-old medium.

Technology already exists that can sniff out chemicals in the air and water — but the detecting devices are expensive, limiting their use. Now Vivek Subramanian, electrical engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has made arrays of sensors cheap enough that they could be widely distributed for monitoring toxins in the environment.

The waiting room for Hilarie Cash’s practice has the look and feel of many a therapist’s office, with soothing classical music, paintings of gentle swans and colorful flowers and on the bookshelves stacks of brochures on how to get help.
But along with her patients, Dr. Cash, who runs Internet/Computer Addiction Services here in the city [...]

The AMouse artificial mouse is a robot with two active whisker arrays – made from real mouse whiskers. Great photos.

The number of businesses with no paid employees grew from 17.6 million in 2002 to more than 18.6 million in 2003, a growth rate of 5.7 percent, according to a report issued today by the U.S. Census Bureau. This represents the biggest rate of increase in self-employment since the Census Bureau began releasing such statistics [...]

Tim Kehoe has stained the whites of his eyes deep blue. He’s also stained his face, his car, several bathtubs and a few dozen children. He’s had to evacuate his family because he filled the house with noxious fumes. He’s ruined every kitchen he’s ever had. Kehoe, a 35-year-old toy inventor from St. Paul, Minnesota, [...]

A drone aircraft powered by a 200-year-old engine design is the latest concept under wraps at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

The developers, brothers William and Arthur Zeckendorf, will pay $430 a square foot, more than double the going rate, for air rights over Park Avenue and East 60th Street, the New York Times reported.

India may become a leading supplier of skilled labor for the world’s pharmaceutical and chemical industries, says a new report.

Nearly two-thirds of U.S. colleges and universities surveyed now offer online courses on the same levels as their face-to-face courses.