Restless nights and drowsy days are common problems for many Americans. Sleep disorders and sleep deprivation plague people of all ages and curing them takes some investigative work.

If you could live anywhere in the United States, where would it be? Chances are your ideal place would have beautiful scenery and recreational opportunities; civic pride and a healthy economy; and a community of people who care about the environment, sustainability, alternative energy and fresh, wholesome food.

Britney Spears has one. So do Gwyneth Paltrow and Rosie O’Donnell. And the tabloids say actress Elizabeth Hurley is always on the hunt for a good one.

Video game publishers want their own version of iTunes.

Chinese researchers show a rabbit with a gray and white face after a face-transplant operation at a plastic surgery institute in Xi’an, Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, December 23, 2005.  Great photos.

Provincetown, New England’s summer gay capital, is facing a rise in harassment and discrimination. But this time it’s straight people who say they are being ridiculed as "breeders" and "baby makers."

The Chinese mainland exported 1.1 billion U.S. dollars worth of washing machines and dryers in 2005, up 74 percent year-on-year, according to Global Sources’ China Sourcing Report released on Friday.

Acupuncture is effective in helping people suffering neck pain, a review of evidence has concluded.

A professor of mathematics has worked out an equation to calculate how long into a car journey it takes a child to ask: "Are we there yet?"

The online food and grocery business has had a turbulent past with a variety of high profile firms such as Webvan, Kozmo and others failing as a result of their impossibly ambitious logistic requirements. Since then, however, companies such as Peapod and FreshDirect have built seemingly sustainable online businesses and online grocery shopping is once […]

Researchers in England say for young people caffeine is probably better than sugar if you want to stay alert.

The field scabious is a multipetaled blue–sometimes purple–ball of a flower. It provides sustenance to a host of pollinators, but one bee–the scabious bee, or Andrena hattorfiana–relies exclusively on the plant’s bounty to feed her young.

Plasma televisions cost a fraction of what they did six years ago and prices may drop further, after a boom during the soccer World Cup.

From simple everyday parts you can make this glove which has two modes. Mode 1 is a constant output of slightly over 300 v. while Mode 2 takes a few seconds to charge, but gives off a much more painful shock. All that voltage from a simple AA battery.

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.