Europe is building its own satellite-navigation system called Galileo. BBC News looks at why such a network is deemed necessary when we already have the US Global Positioning System.

Top human sexuality research team has just revealed the answer to one of man’s greatest, age-old quandaries about women — namely, what women think about while having sex!

Knowing where you are, what time it is and who you are with is obviously a huge help when it comes to filing a photograph in your collection. It also happens to be information that can now be compiled by any Bluetooth-enabled camera cellphone.

A German researcher has created a smart polymer surgeons can use to close stitches from inside the body of a patient.

Here is a fascinating chart listing statistics on internet usage in the top 20 countries.

Some people dump old tires and some people turn them to a thing of beauty.  Very cool pictures.

This is scary.  Here are the top 10 most inspirational celebrities of 2005 in a poll of teenage girls.

Here is the Mercury News annual look into a crystal ball for technology trends in 2006. Never mind that the smartest people in tech wouldn’t dare make serious predictions about what innovations will catch fire next year. They make a humble try anyway.

By Robert Capps of Wired Magazine.
They’re exploring the deep sea and distant planets. They’re saving lives in the operating room and on the battlefield. They’re transforming factory floors and filmmaking. They’re – oh c’mon, they’re just plain cool! From Qrio to the Terminator, here are our absolute favorites (at least for now).  Great photos.

Tech execs say the darndest things. And so do shuffling presidents, and disgraced scientists, and Wikipedia fakers. It’s time to relive 2005’s biggest spoken gaffes.

Pink Floyd has been named the greatest rock act of all time in a poll of 58,000 fans.

The latest fastest and most powerful automobile ever: 1001 horsepower, zero to 188 mph in 14 seconds.

The world’s smallest helicopter weighs only 6.9 grams.  Great photos and video.

A study at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute of 133 violent offenders shows 58 percent had consumed alcohol within 24 hours before the violent act.

One acre of genetically engineered tobacco plants can produce enough anthrax vaccine to inoculate the entire U.S. population safely and inexpensively.

As the first of the 75 million baby boomers touch 60 in January, there’s good news for the men: They are catching up to women in life expectancy.

Pablo Picasso, Lord Byron and Dylan Thomas had more in common than simple creativity. They also had active sex lives.

Let’s put to rest the myth that the Fed is blind to asset bubbles and never intentionally acts to prick them. The truth can be obtained by anyone with an internet browser and a few hours on their hands to read the voluminous Fed Open Market Committee meeting minutes.

Robots, you see, are wonderful creatures, as many a Japanese will tell you. They are getting more adept all the time, and before too long will be able to do cheaply and easily many tasks that human workers do now. They will care for the sick, collect the rubbish, guard homes and offices, and give [...]

 In the bizarre and rule-bound world of quantum physics, every tiny spec of matter has something called "spin" – an intrinsic trait like eye color – that cannot be changed and which dictates, very specifically, what other bits of matter the spec can share quantum space with.

The space rocket corporation Energia is planning to double its production of spacecraft.

Forget "40 is the new 30." Now even twentysomethings are joining the quest for eternal youth by using anti-aging products and wrinkle treatments.

Fear gripped planet Earth on the eve of 2000 when the world was expecting the impact of Y2K.

Here’s PC World’s official (and entirely idiosyncratic) list of the top tech gadgets of the last half century.

A Johns Hopkins geneticist has discovered a critical link between the health of stem cells and the length of the chromosome ends within them.