At just four months, babies can tell the difference between two languages spoken to them by the expressions on the speakers’ faces, according to a new study by Canadian researchers on Thursday.

Yes, our love affair with the automobile continues, but here are some vehicles so crazy that only a mother could love them.

I read this article that said the typical symptoms of stress are: eating too much, impulse buying, and driving too fast. Are they kidding? That is my idea of a perfect day.

Having a Visible Panty Line, or VPL, is widely regarded as one of the most serious crimes a woman can commit against fashion. The mere suggestion that someone might be able to see the shape of your knickers through tight clothing is enough to get you arrested by the style police.

With gas prices well over $3 a gallon nationwide, many drivers are lining up to buy small cars. But hundreds of thousands of consumers aren’t giving up anything to downsize. Instead, they are simply adding pint-size transportation to their driveways, parked alongside their S.U.V. or pickup.

In the race for ever-thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all — a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color video.

Carpenter Joel "Bubba" Smith builds tree houses for a living. But these are not the rickety, slapped-together, sticks-nailed-slipshod-to-the- tree-in-the-backyard tree houses of childhood memory. As a carpenter with Seattle-based TreeHouse Workshop Inc., Smith constructs wholly modern and sophisticated tree houses — some with bathrooms and fireplaces and second stories and suspension bridges. (w/pics)

Get your mouth poised to say "Wow!  That is one crazy photo."  Or at least get ready to scratch your head.  Here are this week’s amazing photos.

Malaria is a public health problem in more than 90 countries and it is by far the world’s most important tropical parasitic disease. It kills more people than HIV or any other communicable disease except tuberculosis. It infects 400 million people every year and kills one person every 30 seconds, with the vast majority under [...]

Could magnets make the mind grow stronger? In mice at least, stimulating the brain with a magnetic coil appears to promote the growth of new neurons in areas associated with learning and memory. If the effect is confirmed in humans, it might open up new ways of treating age-related memory decline and diseases like Alzheimer’s. [...]

The government of South Korea is drawing up a code of ethics to prevent human abuse of robots—and vice versa. The so-called Robot Ethics Charter will cover standards for robotics users and manufacturers, as well as guidelines on ethical standards to be programmed into robots, South Korea’s Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy announced last [...]

Drinking four or more cups of coffee a day may cut the risk of having a painful attack of gout, say Canadian scientists.

Coca-Cola has bought out New York state-based health drinks firm Glaceau for $4.1bn (£2bn).

One of the great risks of space travel is the threat from solar radiation storms. An unlucky group of astronauts traveling to the Moon could get caught unprotected as a hail of charged particles and radiation blast through the spacecraft. But now NASA researchers think the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) will be able to [...]

They are eco-friendly, cost next to nothing to build, and in Nader Khalili’s dreams, they might one day be housing the first settlers on the Moon.

U.S. doctors injected a biosynthetic glue to seal off a spinal fluid leak and restore a comatose patient to consciousness.

Malaysian cinemas have found a powerful new weapon in their fight against movie pirates — military-style night-vision goggles.

A Marvel Comics hero is giving George Washington some company on the quarter, but the U.S. Mint doesn’t think the stunt is so super. To promote the upcoming film "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," 20th Century Fox and The Franklin Mint altered 40,000 U.S. quarters to feature the character.

Chicago’s Daley administration has quietly impose a five-fold increase in the annual license fee for dogs who have not been spayed or neutered — from $10 to $50.

Alan Greenspan, now 81, struggled to contain the tech stock boom, issuing his famous "irrational exuberance" warning in December 1996 only to watch the American market keep rising and finally collapse in early 2000. He tried his hand at forecasting Chinese stocks on Wednesday, telling an audience in Madrid by satellite that the Chinese market [...]

A Cornish man says he has broken the world record for sleep deprivation by staying awake for 11 days and nights.

If the children of Naples had their way, they would ask Batman to save them from rotting rubbish that threatens a major health emergency and may force some schools to close early for the summer holidays.

Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet 4, from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires. (w/pic)

Nearly two-thirds of US Internet users still buy CDs from stores, according to a May 2007 "Fact of the Week" survey by Greenfield Online. Just over four in 10 respondents downloaded music from the Internet.

A 6 1/2-foot alligator believed to be the elusive "Reggie" who lurked in a park lake for two years was captured Thursday in a wrestling match with a reptile expert and rangers.