It’s not just hormones that kick in during adolescence, the brain also undergoes massive development which might help to explain teenage behavior.  It also has to do with a number of unique factors that only the millennials will understand.

The gravy train — make that the sausage, biscuits and gravy train — just kept on rolling in most of America last year, with 31 states showing an increase in obesity.

Even though medical researchers told Chuck Park that he might be getting a sugar pill, the 30-year-old software producer was pretty sure he was getting the real thing. Just a few weeks into the clinical trial, Park’s depression started to lift. He began to feel less anxious and sad.

Terrafugia, a "roadable aircraft" developer that emerged out of MIT, has devised a flight simulator for its aircraft. The application runs on top of the X-Plane simulator for Laminar Research.

Environmental group Greenpeace called on the European Union to ban the use of chemical plastic softeners in sex toys because they contained dangerous substances known as phthalates.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects that the economy will generate 200,000 more engineering jobs by 2014, and many employers are already noticing a shortage of skilled workers in a variety of engineering fields – civil, mechanical, industrial, you name it. Annual pay for engineers in the U.S. now averages $72,965, well over twice the [...]

Child prodigy Nischal Narayanam beat his own teacher to set a new world record for memorising 225 random objects earning a place for himself in the Guinness Book of Records. Narayanam, 11, a Class VI student of the Gitanjali School, Hyderabad, India, beat his own master Squadron Leader Jayasimha, who had set the record in [...]

A Japanese scientist who invented environmentally friendly sources of light has been awarded this year’s Millennium Technology Prize.

Adam Lashinsky: Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, has become one of the fastest-growing and buzziest destinations on the Web, thanks in large part to the devoted community that slaves over its authoritative entries. The site’s founder, Jimmy Wales, hasn’t made any money, however, because the site is free and relies solely on contributions for its $1.5 [...]