After the Einstein robot KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) have developed the Hubo FX-1 chair bot.

To observe the motion of an electron – an elementary particle with a mass that is one billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a gram – has been considered to be impossible. So when two Brown University physicists showed movies of electrons moving through liquid helium at the 2006 International Symposium on Quantum [...]

It’s no great shock that cat lovers can get a little excessive when it comes to their feline friends. But one company is selling a designer breed of cat that costs $22,000.

Pac Man will be reborn on Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox Live online service Wednesday as a final tribute for designer Toru Iwatani, who is retiring from the $30 billion games industry he helped ignite.

Forest guards in western India are using cell phones with ringtones of cows mooing, goats bleating and roosters crowing to attract leopards that have wandered into human settlements, officials said on Monday.

British researchers hope to make stem-cell treatment of blindness caused by macular degeneration routine within a decade.

Absent parents who fail to make child maintenance payments could find themselves on a name and shame Web site as part of government plans to shake up the Child Support Agency (CSA). Letters will go out to about 100 single parents, mostly mothers, asking if they want to give the go-ahead for the name of [...]

Dutch students have developed powdered alcohol which they say can be sold legally to minors.

As Congress prepares to reauthorize the 5-year-old No Child Left Behind education reform law this year, a provocative new study shows that students seem to be improving in both math and reading — two key goals.

A STUDY funded by a subsidiary of BHP Billiton in Suriname has discovered a purple fluorescent frog, one of 24 new species found in the South American highlands of the country.

Safeco Insurance (SAF) unveils a teen driving package Tuesday that notifies parents when their young driver speeds, breaks curfew or drives outside of an agreed-upon area.

Here’s something strange and tragic: a family living in a public toilet for seven years in Morocco have been evicted.

The pressing need for viable alternative energy sources that do more than just supplement coal fired power-stations is driving advances in the development of wind energy. One major hurdle in establishing successful wind farms is the difficulty in attaining accurate site evaluation data and it is this problem that the Triton Sonic Wind Profiler seeks [...]

Retreating ice cover over Greenland has resulted in the discovery of a new island.