One year after Hurricane Katrina left a high-price mark of $3-plus per gallon of gasoline, Americans are finally getting serious about switching to smaller cars and alternative fuel vehicles. The best indicator of current interest, it seems, is the change in behavior on automotive Web sites, where searches and requests for small cars and hybrids […]

Jeffrey Leib:  As more than 200 Denver- bound United Airlines passengers waited to board Flight 909 from Chicago on Monday, it became apparent that something was wrong. So United decided to pull the kinda crap that only United would do.

Diamonds are no longer a girl’s best friend, according to a new U.S. study that found three of four women would prefer a new plasma TV to a diamond necklace.

A series of hidden texts written by the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes are being revealed by US scientists. Until now, the pages have remained obscured by paintings and texts laid down on top of the original writings.

Microsoft will be unveiling its new technology that transforms two- dimensional digital images into 3D models.

The Laundress, a line of premium fabric care products provides detergents for superior fabrics, from wool/cashmere shampoo to baby detergent, is extending the luxury laundry concept to consumers all over the United States.

With video game revenues expected to break the $10 billion mark this year and garner over $300 million in advertising investment, the gaming industry represents a strong marketing opportunity.

More than 17 per cent of junior high school students in Hong Kong claim to have had sexual experiences, a new survey has revealed.

A Chinese family planning official has said the government will still punish people who intentionally abort baby girls even though the legislature decided in June not to make it a crime, state media reports.

It seems crazy, the notion that you could shield yourself from bullets, shrapnel, and knives by donning the equivalent of a wet suit. But by early next year, Robert R. Schiller, the president and chief operating officer of Armor Holdings aims to be selling what he describes as "liquid armor" — garments constructed from layers of tough fibers […]

Attractive women are easier to find than handsome men because beautiful parents are more likely to have daughters than sons, a study has shown.

The new "US Online Advertising Forecast, 2006 to 2011" report from JupiterResearch estimates that advertisers will continue to spent online over the next five years, with the market reaching $25.9 billion — nearly 9% of total US advertising spending — in 2011.

Chantix, a new stop-smoking drug that partially activates nicotine receptors in the brain, has arrived in the U.S. market.

U.S. engineers say they’ve developed a technique to grow individual carbon nanotubes vertically on top of a silicon wafer.