A man paralysed from the neck down has been able to open e-mails, control a television and move objects with a robotic arm, simply by thinking about it.

Neuroscientist Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University and his colleagues tested the effects of psilocybin–a drug derived from certain mushrooms that appears to mimic the effects of serotonin in the brain–on 36 middle-aged Americans who had never tried psychedelics before.

Thousands of infertile men might benefit from a world first in which scientists artificially created sperm in a test tube.

An inflatable spacecraft designed to test technology for a future space hotel is to be launched from Russia on Wednesday.

According to the new "Alternative Advertising & Marketing Outlook 2006" report from PQ Media, US spending on alternative media strategies was up 16.4% in the first half of 2006 to reach an estimated $53.37 billion.

The discovery that a wide variety of bacteria can be persuaded to produce wire-like appendages that conduct electricity could prove vital to the development of more efficient biological fuel cells.

The tiny South Pacific Ocean archipelago of Vanuatu is the happiest country on Earth, according to a study measuring people’s wellbeing and their impact on the environment.