The question of why organisms have sex may seem trivially easy – any mortified kid who’s sat through a birds-and-bees lecture knows that it’s to reproduce. But biologists have for many decades….

This week’s issue of U.S.News & World Report features an article on "bootstrapping" a small business—launching a start-up with little or no money. And certainly no venture capital. For some further insights into the topic, U.S. News editor James Pethokoukis chatted via E-mail with entrepreneur and futurist Thomas Frey of the DaVinci Institute, a business and [...]

The world’s first beer spa has opened in the cellar of a family brewery in the Czech Republic.

U.S. researchers say a teen’s brain undergoes a previously unsuspected biological makeover not complete until they’re 25, and that could explain a few things.

Defense researchers are reviewing the test results of a new jet engine which succeeded in hitting Mach 7.6 speed as they develop future plans for faster air travel.

Computer chips that store music could soon be built into a woman’s breast implants.

Manel Torres has developed Fabrican, a cotton-fabric that comes in a can. Once sprayed onto your body, the pressurised liquid turns instantly into a fabric.

The Moscow Times is reporting that the chief software architect at Russian software developer Cognitive Technologies, Andrei Smirnov, recently won a boxing match organized between himself and a software pirate he caught selling bootlegged software CD’s at a Moscow market. At last, a practical and entertaining model for dealing with software piracy (MPAA and RIAA [...]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, long considered the father of the Internet, is a Distinguished Chartered member of BCS, is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, senior researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and professor of computer science at Southampton ECS.  Here are his thoughts on software patents, US [...]