The emergence of voice over IP (VoIP) technology has already had a significant impact on the traditional circuit-switched landline sector worldwide, but a new report from Analysys suggests that VoIP will have an even bigger impact on the mobile phone sector. The telecoms consultancy firm suggests that once 3G technologies are enhanced to allow for [...]

Science education in U.S. elementary and middle schools is overly broad and superficial, according to a government report issued Thursday that also faults science curricula for assuming children are simplistic thinkers.

A team of U.S. scientists says it has figured out the physics of how drips of icy water can swell into the skinny spikes we call icicles.

According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), one-fifth of all retail sales in the US (19.9%) occur during the holiday season, making it the most important time period of the year for the industry.

Channel 4 in London is is preparing to screen a programme called Masturbation For Girls that features — I kid you not — an ‘orgasm coach’ who teaches three ladies all her tricks, which they will demonstrate, live, to camera.

Anti-drug campaigners today attacked the makers of a soft drink who have called their product "cocaine". The high-energy drink is being billed as a "legal alternative" to the class A drug, using a massive hit of caffeine instead of cocaine.

A U.S. woman held in jail for seven months longer than her original sentence because she was too poor to pay a $705 fine was freed on Wednesday, her attorney said.

In Ireland, incredibly 58 out of every 100 occasions by a man and 30 out of every 100 drinking occasions by a woman in is a binge drinking occasion. Binge drinkers are also more likely to become addicted later in life.

According to a new survey almost three-quarters of Britons think the world is a more dangerous, war-like place than it was 50 years ago.  But they would be wrong.

We do not need to fear the future. We simply need to stride boldly down the runway with it. Technology will soon be available to create masterpieces of all types, and high fashion will find itself with magical new abilities and design powers. A garment no longer need be made of earthly materials but can now [...]

While well-known futurist speakers like John Naisbitt, Arthur C. Clark, Alvin Toffler, and Ray Kurzweil have traditionally garnered much of the media spotlight, a new breed of tech-savvy futurists have emerged who understand the world of online media and have created their own web-based buzz machines.  Today’s number one rated “futurist speaker” according to Google’s [...]

For many cancer patients, the treatment feels worse than the disease. Radiation and chemotherapy can have debilitating side effects and often destroy healthy tissue as well as tumors. Thus the strong allure of a potentially revolutionary cancer treatment under development by NanoLife, a startup based in Newport Beach, Calif.

New findings in a study of the process of skin tanning reveal a promising way of protecting fair-skinned people from skin cancer caused by exposure to sunlight.

Sultry actress Jessica Alba has been voted the celebrity men would most like to kiss. (w/kissable pics)

A recent surge in recalls of the defective products made in Japan has sparked worries among the Japanese that the country is losing its best face — the craftmanship.

Seth Godin:  If I want my car to go a bit faster, there’s a garage in town that will tweak it for me. If I want my stereo to sound a little better, there’s a guy who will install cables and such and upgrade it. There are more than a billion websites. Where are the [...]

A new poll has confirmed what Australians have always known – fat people love their daytime television.

The UK may not have the largest economy in Europe, but retail e-commerce in the UK has hit its full stride.

Graduate business students in the United States and Canada are more likely to cheat on their work than their counterparts in other academic fields, the author of a research paper said on Wednesday.

People wearing pajamas in public, still a common sight in Shanghai, is one of the most irritating aspects of life in China’s biggest city, according to an opinion poll of residents.