Forbes.com published a story on Aug. 22 by editor Michael Noer on two-career relationships that provoked a heated response. Elizabeth Corcoran, a member of Forbe’s Silicon Valley bureau sent in this rebuttal.

U.S. researchers at Brandeis University are offering new insight into how the brain’s neural circuits are actually shaped by experience.

U.S. biologists say they’ve determined even the simplest of social creatures — single-celled amoebae — can discriminate in favor of their own family.

The days of generic cola cans in movies are over. Whoever pays for placement now gets their can, bottle, car, what-have-you on screen — with the label prominently displayed.

A factory in Foshan of Guangdong Province has sparked controversy among locals by banning workers from using toilets during working time.

It is official: Sprint/Nextel, in partnership with Intel, Motorola and Samsung, will roll out a mobile WiMAX network (a technology also known as 802.11e) at a cost of $3 billion; it is expected to be available to 100 million Americans by 2008.

At a time when the networks would like nothing more than to make a splash — another "Lost" or "Desperate Housewives" would be nice — the biggest news in the television industry is the escalating instances of mutiny by viewers.

In China, mud therapy is being used at nursing homes in Anshan, east China’s Liaoning province, to help cure age-related illnesses. 

Kangaroos around Australia’s national capital will soon be fed a contraceptive pill by authorities trying to control their booming population.

A promotion for free Pepsi has created a shortage in Rhode Island. A Sunday advertising circular is promoting free Pepsi 12-packs and 2-liter bottles, if you mail in a rebate form. However, a new Rhode Island law is limiting how stores handle rebates in advertisements such as the circular Pepsi distributed.

A U.S. psychologist says we might not be able to tell a book from its cover, but we can decide if a person is attractive in only a tenth of a second.