Untreated wood rots and pressure-treated wood can pose health and environmental hazards, so U.S. scientists are now turning to nanotechnology.

California researchers have created a new material that captures a sound wave’s fine details, holding promise to revolutionize ultrasound imaging.

After years and years of experimentation, scientists can finally grow diamonds that outshine even the rarest De Beers rocks.

Rich Karlgaard:  In my book, Life 2.0, I wrote about professional refugees from the urban coasts–places such as Manhattan and Silicon Valley, with their obscenely high costs of living. I wrote about a couple from Silicon Valley, two engineers working at Cisco Systems. They traded their 800-square-foot Palo Alto, Calif., condo for two acres and […]

For decades hardwood floors have been limited to either strip or plank configurations. Now, new high-tech manufacturing allows for the creation of a premium quality, solid hardwood floor that stands out from the crowd.

A U.S. study suggests minerals subjected to intense pressure near the Earth’s core lose much of their ability to conduct infrared light.

A U.S. study shows youths with bipolar disorder misread facial expressions as hostile and show heightened neural reactions when focusing on neutral faces.

It is a familiar and unnerving sensation: the false belief that you can hear your mobile phone ringing or vibrating.

Drinking red wine can stop you going deaf in later life, according to American research.

Have you ever lost track of something you have cooking on the grill?  Well, for all you lame backyard chefs (me included), here are three new technologies that can literally save your marriage.

Do you know what software is running on your computer? More importantly, do you know whose software is running on your computer?  Here are some great stats.

Nuclear power could become significantly cheaper thanks to world-leading laser technology being developed in Sydney.

Australian brothel owners want an exemption to anti-smoking laws for sex workers and their clients because, they say, one thing leads to another.

China’s longest river is "cancerous" with pollution and rapidly dying, threatening drinking water supplies in 186 cities along its banks, state media said on Tuesday.

The ultimate cocktail which can only be mixed by a bartender freefalling from 10,000 feet is being sold in Croatia.

The University of California and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are pushing for approval of two California research centers to study virulent diseases.

A new device from Atiz Innovation will scan books at up to 1,800 pages per hour. This would be extremely useful for libraries and companies seeking to put out of print books online.

Google first gained notice early in the decade, as a small and quirky start-up with a disarmingly simple Internet search engine and an idealistic slogan, "Don’t Be Evil."

The world’s most impressive beards.

Seattle scientists have shown that tumors can manipulate the immune system to stop it from attacking cancer cells, said a study published in Nature Immunology.

Scientists have paved the way for the first permanently manned base on the Moon by developing a way to ’squeeze’ oxygen out of lunar soil.

The agency promoting China’s wireless encryption standard has accused a U.S. engineers’ group of waging a conspiracy that led a global organization to reject the Chinese system, the country’s official news agency said Monday.

The future of energy is bright in Said Al-Hallaj’s invention lab at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and not just because of the solar window that lies in development on a table.

A strikingly simple concept would provide efficient water provisions for human outposts and even bases on the moon. The idea is to clobber our already crater-rich neighbor repeatedly with tons of water ice — to establish an "anywhere, anytime" delivery system.

A number of analysts and pundits have said that the US Internet population has peaked, that due to socio-economic factors the proportion of users to non-users really cannot increase. But according to new a Harris Interactive poll, they are wrong.