Heathrow is to switch to autopilot with the world’s first fleet of driverless taxis to whisk passengers around the airport.

Since industry is constantly proving it’s unwilling to address Global Warming from an emissions standpoint, creative science is looking at attacking atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from the other side – sucking the greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere.

Some of you are cat lovers, and others are cat haters.  But whatever your situation, here are ten crazy cat photos that will change your life.

What if a building could build, repair, dismantle, and recycle itself? What if a building were equipped with sensors to track your movement through a space and could adapt its shape, texture, light, sounds, and heat to your presence? Finally, what if you could talk to a building and it could talk back? These are [...]

Swedish authorities have granted three families the right to screen embryos to create a child who can be a stem cell donor for a sibling with a deadly illness, officials said on Monday.

Hong Kong spammers will face big fines and a long jail terms under a new law to control unsolicited advertising, officials said Monday.

The latest thing in "experience" funerals is a Harley Hearse from Milwaukee’s Krause Funeral Home — it joins a host of specialty funeral options available around the world, including "farmers being pulled to their rest by John Deere tractors" and "cremation urns that look like tear-drop motorcycle gas tanks."

Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish 2006 book "The Case Against Homework" is a fine and frightening explosion of the homework myth: that giving kids homework improves their educational outcome.

Hardly had deep-sea treasure hunters had time to celebrate their discovery this month of perhaps the world’s richest treasure wreck before the marine booty became the centre of a heated ownership debate.

The U.S. government is undertaking a set of controversial studies that allows some medical experiments without getting patients’ permission.

HONOLULU – Real estate is often a long-term investment. But 10,000 years? Lo’ihi Development Co. will soon start offering oceanview lots speculators won’t even be able to stand on for many millennia. That’s because they’re currently submerged more than 3,000 feet below sea level — on an underwater volcano called Lo’ihi, located about 20 miles [...]

Villagers are calling for a preservation order to be issued to protect a tree that has enveloped pieces of metal, including a bicycle, a ship’s anchor and chain, and a bridle bit.

Robert Cringely:  Back in the 1990s Bill Gates said the company that would eventually beat Microsoft probably had yet to be founded, by which he meant that Microsoft was in such a strong position that only something truly disruptive — a whole new business — would have a chance to unseat Redmond. Some people think [...]

Seth Godin:  Many people are arguing for a fundamental change in the way humans interact with the world. This isn’t a post about whether or not we need smaller cars, local produce, smaller footprints and less consumption. It’s a post about how deeply entrenched the desire for more is.

Believe it or not: Scientists have bred cows that produce skimmed milk and hope to establish herds of the cattle to meet the demands of health-conscious consumers.

Sometimes you can just tell instantly if a guy is rich…

Vanity ZIP codes could be a gold mine for the United States Postal Service. Just days after upscale department store Sakes Fifth Avenue convinced the USPS to give it a vanity ZIP code for its shoe department, the always cash-strapped postal service said it was exploring the idea of using vanity ZIP codes as a [...]

A new health scare erupted over soft drinks last night amid evidence they may cause serious cell damage. Research from a British university suggests a common preservative found in drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA.

Turning off a gene that has been associated with Alzheimer’s disease made mice smarter in the lab, researchers said on Sunday in a finding that lends new insight on learning and may lead to new drugs for memory problems. They said these mice were far more adept at sensing changes in their environment than their [...]

Overweight and obese people get less out of resistance training than leaner people do, researchers said on Friday in a study that suggests the overweight may have to try harder to get results.

You don’t have to look like Joe Dirt when you haul your Memorial Day barbecue detritus to the curb tomorrow if you chunk it in these snootier-than-thou fashionable trash bags.

Army ants tired of potholes take one for the team, throwing their bodies into rough spots to make a smoother road for their sisters, British researchers reported on Sunday.

It is used by more than 100,000 commuters a day, visited by as many as a million tourists a month, and crossed by 40 million drivers a year. Its bold beauty is staggering, its mystique legendary.

You might call it a tale of “monkey see, monkey do.”  Researchers at Ohio University have found that after primates evolved the ability to see red, they began to develop red and orange skin and hair.

“Sit down a spell. That can wait.” That’s the mantra of the Professional Porch Sitters Union, a somewhat tongue-in-cheek organization founded in 1999 by Claude Stephens of Louisville, Ky. The Union got its start when Stephens and a group of friends gathered on his porch after a busy day of meetings on behalf of an [...]