Surfing: Is it really safer than soccer? A new study says it is.

A recent study found that when presented with applications for promotion, women were more likely than men to assess the female candidate as less qualified than the male one.

A carcinogenic chemical in tobacco products was found in toenails of smokers and non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke, U.S. cancer researchers said.

We always kind of thought it went without saying that the ISP we took with us in our car was whichever network powered our EV-DO or UMTS / HSDPA card — well, not anymore.

Posing as a flip-phone wannabe, this handheld germ-eliminating light reportedly eradicates "99.99-percent of E-Coli, staphylococcus, salmonella, and germs that cause the flu and the common cold."

Another design competition set to become a global fixture, a source of household appliance ideas and a massive generator of awareness for the brand is the Electrolux Design Lab.

With the responsibility for training their astronauts turned over to Europe and cat launchings no longer in vogue, what’s a French space agency to do? Become the official Internet source for UFO sightings, naturally.

For most people, it’s back to work Tuesday after a holiday weekend with family and friends. And for many, a new study shows, it will be under a bad boss. Nearly two of five bosses don’t keep their word and more than one-quarter bad mouth those they supervise to co-workers, a Florida State University study […]

Pay for federal judges is so inadequate that it threatens to undermine the judiciary’s independence, Chief Justice John Roberts says in a year-end report critical of Congress.

According to Hitwise, visits to the iTunes Web site were up 413% on Christmas Day 2006 vs. Christmas 2005 as new iPod owners could not download new digital music fast enough.

Coolest aerial photo you’ll see today of what happens when a faulty gas stove blows up on a tiny Carribean island.

The researchers at eMarketer.com have developed a "watchlist" of ten key predictions that we should be paying attention to in 2007.

TriPong uses an odd-shaped table at regulation ping pong height and Plexiglas "nets" that divide the table into three wedges, each with a neutral zone and scoring zone.

The number of road traffic deaths in China was 89,455 in 2006, 9.4 percent fewer than that in 2005, and the first time below the 90,000-benchmark since 2000, according to the Ministry of Public Security.

Call it a winter sale. Jim and Mary Walker from Loveland, Colorado are selling snow on eBay. Starting bids were holding steady Friday at 99 cents for samples from "Blizzard I and Blizzard II."