Big technology companies, their established markets maturing, increasingly see their future in a huge but seemingly unlikely pool of potential customers: poor, rural residents of the world’s developing countries.

Successful entrepreneurs have surpassed pop stars as college students’ idols, a recent China, Fudan University survey has found.

A person opens his eyes and can not understand where the hell he is. A bloodcurdling surmise finally crosses his mind. He realizes he has been buried alive and now he is lying in a casket some six feet under. It is well-known that stories like that normally have no happy ending. Scientific books contain [...]

About 380 students from 37 universities around the world shared their research yesterday in synthetic biology, an emerging scientific field, during MIT’s third annual International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition, or the iGEM Jamboree.

Reading picture books to toddlers can help them learn about the real world, psychologists from the United States and Australia said.

It’s been an interesting year in technology. Nintendo invented a video game you control with a magic wand. A new kind of car traveled 3,145 miles on a single gallon of gas. A robot learned to ride a bike. Somebody came up with a nanofabric umbrella that doesn’t stay wet. But only YouTube created a [...]

A German study has found that mild electrical stimulation of the brain during sleep appears to improve memory.

According to an Associated Press/AOL poll taken just two weeks prior to the election, 35% of Americans, and 43% of likely voters, are using the Internet to get information about the upcoming election.