A psychology professor in Missouri says it appears people get happier with age.

Known as Dieselmax, the car represents JCB chairman Sir Anthony Bamford’s hope of claiming the world land speed record for a diesel-powered car. Since 1973 the title has belonged to Virgil W Synder, an American who clocked up 235.756mph in a car called the Thermo King Streamliner.

The latest report from eMarketer, IPTV: The Global Picture, projects that the total number of broadband households worldwide will grow to approximately 422 million by 2010. Of that number, 139 million will have sufficient bandwidth to receive IPTV. This excludes cable broadband subscribers who are unlikely to be offered an alternative method of receiving their […]

Microscopic metal boxes that hold a few nanolitres of liquid each have been developed by US researchers. They say the tiny containers could someday be used for precision chemistry or even drug delivery inside the body.

Here’s something that will catch your eye–a grown man driving a larger-than-life green turtle up the highway. The driver is James Riseborough, owner of Turtle Transit, which brought in $2 million last year by transforming ordinary cars and trucks into promotional vehicles. (w/pics)

A study by two universities indicates 1-in-6 workers who cleaned up Ground Zero in New York after Sept. 11, 2001, suffers from major depression. (Great photos)

India needs to import uranium only as a "stop gap" measure until its own thorium fuelled reactors come on stream, Bhabha Atomic research Centre (BARC) director Sreekumar Banerjee has clarified.

On August 17, the Census Bureau of the US Department of Commerce (DoC) released its second-quarter 2006 estimates of retail e-commerce sales. According to the new data, in the first half of 2006, US Web retailers sold $49.3 billion worth of products (excluding online travel and event tickets), representing a 24.2% rise over online sales […]