Researchers trying to make tiny machines have turned to the power of
nature, engineering a virus to attract metals and then using it to
build minute wires for microscopic batteries.

Deb Frey:  Corporations today are under enormous pressure to produce money for their investors. The systems that we have in place tend to reward people who are willing to push the envelope and test the outer limits of what’s legal.

A University of Cincinnati study suggests the number of sites in children’s brains involved in language recognition decreases as children age.

Scientists say they’ve discovered a mole-rat whose lifestyle strikes them as being similar to that of some teenagers.

Life in China defies description.  Steeped in generations of great tradition but simultaneously steeped in the modern culture, life in China today is both traditional and new age.  Here are some amazing photos of life in this intriguing emerging new world.

MIT graduate student Carl Dietrich has a simple dream.
He wants to be able to fly his own plane to any airport in the U.S.
Then, once he has landed, taxied off the runway, and made a few
modifications, he wants to drive out of the airport and onto local
streets — using the same vehicle he flew in […]

Online social networks are usually all about bringing together people who like the same things.

Scientists doing climate research for the federal government say the
Bush administration has made it hard for them to speak forthrightly to
the public about global warming. The result, the researchers say, is a
danger that Americans are not getting the full story on how the climate
is changing.

Tobias Schmidt was born in September 1985 in Germany.  Still early in his career, Tobias is a brilliant artist as you will see in the photos below.

By now it’s expected that major American multiplayer games like World of Warcraft
will charge customers a monthly subscription fee.

Would you pay $400 for a handful of microchips and, armed with only a
circuit diagram, build your own cellphone?

A group of legislators Wednesday named China and Russia as the worst pirates of American movies, music and software and said Moscow should be denied World Trade Organization membership until it does more to end the theft.

In Atlanta, an online ad offers a room in
exchange for “sex and light office duty.” In Los Angeles, a one-bedroom
pool house is free “to a girl that is skilled and willing.” And in New
York City, a $700-a-month room is available at a discount to a fit
female willing to provide sex.

The city of Busan, South Korea’s largest port,
feels like a room crammed with oversize furniture. Apartment buildings
and hotels crowd into a narrow strip between steep hills and a deep
harbor.