A study by Chinese scientists suggests that electrical stimulation of non-functional brain neurons can induce the production of amino acids and improve memory.

A growing number of school districts are going so far as to ban the game of tag and are even posting signs that read "no running on the playground."

What will the office of the future look like?  "Microsoft sees Tablet PCs as a possible tool for biometric logins–authentications employing things like fingerprints and handwriting–in place of usernames and passwords."  Complete with photos.

When Google unleashed PageRank™ on the world, it really created a monster. Google was so proud of its algorithm that it liked to boast that it mirrored the "inherent democracy" of the internet, a phrase which coyly and insidiously, flatters us all. PageRank™ was a truer representation of life than we ever realized, Google said, […]

Boing Boing, previously the most popular blog according to Technorati has now been displaced by a fast rising Chinese blog. And here is the surprising part.  The blog is written by a famous Chinese actress, Xu Jinglei, and it’s less than six months old.  Great photos of her.

Since the early days of e-commerce, consumers have feared that their financial information less secure online than off, and, in most cases, they were right. Now a new study, from the Merchant Risk Council, shows that the fraud rates for online stores are now similar to the fraud rates suffered at brick-and-mortar stores.

U.S. scientists say they have a new understanding of the process cells use to ensure sperm and eggs begin life with exactly one copy of each chromosome.