This Bluetooth headset is smaller than a dime, and small enough to be carried away by an ant.

Florida State University scientists say they have developed a new light microscope capable of looking at proteins on the molecular level.

Searching the Internet to find health information is as common as catching a cold, it seems. This year, 80% of online US adults, or 136 million people, will turn to the Internet to research symptoms, conditions and diagnoses, according to a Harris Poll conducted by telephone between July 5 and 11, 2006. That’s a solid […]

A survey by China’s Ministry of Health at the end of 2004 said 88 per cent of the country’s male migrants suffered from sexual depression.

The parents of Cheng Junjie, a nine-year-old girl from the northeast province of Jilin are searching for an effective therapy nationwide for their daughter’s condition; she has black, coarse, hairy skin covering most parts of her body, including her face.

This is the coolest photo of an archialogical dig you’ll probably ever see.

Everyone in the e-mail business wants to know how their metrics compare to industry norms — and now they can find out.

Delegates to the 16th International AIDS Conference meeting in Toronto are debating whether to endorse circumcision as a method to fight AIDS.

U.S. biologists have identified a specific genetic and molecular mechanism that results in the asymmetric shape critical to a cell’s proper functioning.

Spam is the scourge of the Internet. It clogs inboxes, crashes servers, wastes time and money and is an abuse of privacy. More than half of the two trillion e-mail messages sent in 2006 are likely to be spam. According to the anti-spam Web site Spamhaus Project, about 200 spammers worldwide are responsible for about […]

A quarter of British office staff hate their workmates — and a third have quit to escape them, a survey reveals.

Grass that was genetically engineered for golf courses is growing in the wild, posing one of the first threats of agricultural biotechnology escaping from the farm in the United States, a new study says.

More and more American consumers are carrying less and less cash. A "Consumer Payments Survey," commissioned by MasterCard and conducted by Ipsos, shows that 74% of respondents no longer carry large amounts of cash with them, and 62% say they have switched to other forms of payment. More than half (56%) said they usually could […]

Drivers in Belgium are buying used parking tickets on the internet to get out of paying fines.

U.S. biological engineering students have developed a wireless biosensor that can monitor a football player’s body temperature.

Office workers combing the league waiver wire for running backs or back-up quarterbacks are part of a growing number of fantasy football owners costing employers as much as $1.1 billion a week in lost productivity, according to a study released on Wednesday.

A U.S. physicist has discovered powerful magnetic fields alter the physical nature of superconductivity.

Cisco Systems’ Internet Business Solutions Group analysed 20 major retail Web sites to find out which ones excel at providing customers with a rich shopping experience. To evaluate back-end processes, products were purchased on each site so that the entire shopping life cycle could be observed. Web merchants were measured on over 70 discrete attributes […]