Property prices in China’s major cities kept rising in June despite several rounds of government control measures intended to cool the sector.

While online advertising continues to stack up huge gains, there’s a rat hiding in the woodpile: click fraud.

In Shanghai, the women wear the pants, or so the saying goes. Not that the city’s women are particularly masculine or coarse, it is just that their men have an age-old reputation for being, well, a little on the soft side.

British scientists say poor people live shorter lives, partly because greater stresses cause their cells to age more quickly.

Led by MySpace, now the seventh most visited site in the US, social networking is a bone fide cultural phenomenon, but, as an advertising revenue model, it is still "under development."
For this reason the DaVinci Institute will be hosting a MySpace Boot Camp on August 19th.

A used bullet tells many tales. The grooves and striations it picks up as it blasts down a gun barrel can link weapons to crimes and help prosecutors put criminals behind bars.

U.S. scientists say they’ve discovered how to turn graphite into graphene — sheets of graphite one atom thick — embedded in a polymer matrix.

A Calgary biotech company says it is has developed a method of producing large amounts of human insulin from genetically modified safflower plants.

When Chuck (Tom Hanks) was stranded on a remote island in the movie Cast Away his only conversation was with a deflated volleyball he called Wilson. Wilson wasn’t much of a talker but he was a terrific listener and was of great psychological assistance as Chuck tried to survive with no other human contact. Working […]

The Chinese Central Bank issued a ruling on Tuesday that will help set up a unified credit database on corporate borrowers to help banks evaluate risk, similar to the US Credit Bureaus.

The U.S. online population has hit an all-time high: 73 percent of adults, or 147 million, now use the Internet.

Chinese millionaires feel insecure and troubled, even as they enjoy the social status and the sense of accomplishment their wealth brings. That’s the finding of a survey by the Guangzhou-based newspaper Nanfang Weekend, which has selected 80 persons for its annual domestic wealth creator list every year since 2004.

Bloggers are a predominantly young group of Internet users who are novice storytellers, enjoy describing their own experiences and have a growing audience in the online world.

People stopping to smell the roses can now take that sweet floral fragrance home with them or even send it to a faraway grandmother thanks to a new gadget in Japan that records and replicates the world’s odors.