China’s wealthiest lavished 500 million yuan, or $63 million, on Hennessy spirits, Porsche sedans, South African diamonds and other luxury goods during a show in Shanghai, double the value of transactions a year ago.

Scientists are boldly going where only fiction has gone before - to develop a Cloak of Invisibility. It isn’t quite ready to hide a Romulan space ship from Capt. James T. Kirk or to disguise Harry Potter, but it is a significant start and could show the way to more sophisticated designs.

On Tuesday Oct. 17, the US reached a milestone: Its population grew to 300 million. Today, the US population has a median age of 36.2 and a life expectancy of 77.8, according to the US Census Bureau. Well over half (59%) of women are in the workforce and 85.2% of people ages 25 and older [...]

d3o Lab has invented a flexible foam material that hardens into a protective shell on impact. It may be the next big brand in sports

Talking publicly a year after having the world’s first partial face transplant, Isabelle Dinoire declared: "It may be someone else’s face, but when I look in the mirror, I see me."

Increasingly, the line between direct marketing and online marketing is blurring.

They want kids, houses and sex. And they want women, too — but not in the form of wives. Not until they’re older. So says the latest study to probe the minds of America’s young men, aged 25 to 33. The study found 10 reasons men won’t commit — from the ease of finding sex [...]

The investigation of a scheme to plunder corpses for transplantable body parts has been broadened as prosecutors secured plea deals with seven funeral home directors who have agreed to cooperate.

From the land that gave the world such tiny treats as bonsai, midget submarines and shiploads of quaint consumer goods comes, according to Shukan Bunshun, the latest example of Japanese miniaturization — single grain sushi!

Ace Bayou Corp., a leading designer and manufacturer of lifestyle and sound furniture, announced the addition of the RelaX-I and Xsoothe to its X sound furniture line. These black and brown leather full recliners have an optional built-in massage feature and a built-in, high-quality sound system which connects to a variety of the most popular [...]

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is published by the Wall Street Journal, whose editors select the stocks to include in the average. The first industrial average – published in 1896 – tracked 12 stocks. The list grew to its current size of 30 stocks in 1928. They first figured out the Dow’s value by adding [...]

While mobile carriers, music producers, television networks and equipment providers throw out a never-ending barrage of multimedia goodies to lure consumers into spending more add-on dollars, users seem content to just keep their heads down and tap out more messages.

It appears that Audi will be the latest car manufacturer to jump on the electric sports car craze with their R-Zero concept car, which is a mix between an “Audi TT, Nissan 350Z and an Infiniti G35 Coupe.” Not a bad mix.

The government said Tuesday it is moving closer to approving meat and milk from cloned animals, drawing protests from consumer groups.

It really is the most tragic thing. Overtoun Bridge in Milton, near Dumbarton, England, holds a curious, terrible power over dogs. It makes them want to jump off it. In the past 50 years, it has claimed 50 dogs, and there are sometimes spikes in the piteous graph of doggo-demise, like one six-month period last year, [...]

To figure out what teens are up to when their parents aren’t watching, we gave 53 boys and 47 girls from four Manhattan high schools (Dalton, La Guardia, Beacon, and MLK) a “purity test,” a series of 37 questions designed to tease out exactly how far they go. Then we went after 100 parents—not the [...]

As more Americans go online to find out about candidates’ political platforms, political consultants expect more advertising will follow. Just don’t try to link up on MySpace.