U.S. researchers say you can ignore the number of portions listed on nutrition labels — the scientists say portion size is all in your mind.

The Rapex rape prevention device has been delayed until late this year.

More than a quarter of Australian parents pinch or have been tempted to "borrow" money from their children’s piggy banks, research shows.

Car wash operators that offer cashless payment options at their premises gain many benefits, not the least of which includes a 40 per cent increase in customer spending, improved security and operating efficiencies.

Major US retailers such as Wal-Mart, Target Corp and Best Buy Co are evaluating the potential of DVD download kiosks to ensure their continued share of the USD 24 billion home DVD market. In other words, retailers that previously sold discounted DVDs at their stores, now see download-to-burn kiosks as a way to counter moves […]

A Texas A&M University study has become one of the first to examine the competitiveness and stability of family businesses and finds both factors good.

A Canadian scientist says members of peer-to-peer file sharing networks, like the early users of Napster, are part of a previously unseen social system.

A U.S. scientist says he believes there’s a simple explanation for the pleasure of grasping a new concept: The brain is getting its fix.

A quirk of the lunar calendar has prompted a massive jump in the number of people getting married in China.

The lead researcher of the project, scientific director of the Kato Ladies Clinic in Tokyo, Dr. Masashige Kuwayama, first used the egg freezing technique using eggs from animals but feels that the same possibility is present for human eggs also.

A new report from the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), an organization representing over 2,000 newspapers in the US and Canada, shows that print and online advertising expenditures together totaled $11.1 billion for the first quarter of 2006, a 1.8% year-over-year increase. Spending for print ads in newspapers totaled $10.5 billion, a 0.3% increase on […]

A 1907 portrait by Gustav Klimt has been purchased by cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder for $135 million, the highest amount ever paid for a painting, The New York Times reported.

IBM has built a transistor that runs about 100 times faster than current chips, a development that could pave the way for ultra-fast computers and wireless networks.