Researchers in Israel have shown that caffeine makes existing brain cells swell and new ones grow.

Iceland has energy to spare, and the small country has found a cutting-edge way to reduce its oil dependency. Volcanoes formed the island nation out of ash and lava, and molten rock heats huge underground lakes to the boiling point.

Looking to stay ahead of Asian and European rivals in broadband deployment, the U.S. is making an aggressive bid to open up spectrum for emerging WiMAX technology.

Check out this crazy addition to your kitchen.  Guaranteed the neighbors will worry about you.

Constant darkness throws a molecular switch in mammals that shifts the body’s fuel consumption from glucose to fat and induces a state of torpor in mice.

Physicists at Boston College have for the first time shown that carbon nanotubes can be stretched at high temperature to nearly four times their original length, a finding that could have implications for future semiconductor design as well as in the development of new nanocomposites.

Thomas Frey: Within the next ten years the income tax system in the United States will be dismantled. A number of emerging new forces coupled with the universal dislike of the system will soon gain enough of a toehold to cause it to collapse.

Internet users can give websites a thumbs up or thumbs down in less than the blink of an eye, according to a study by Canadian researchers.

Tony Long:  Rude cell-phone users are nothing new. Actually, they’re getting very tiresome. But good manners count, so here are eight simple steps to help you avoid offending refined sensibilities.