At rail stations and shopping malls around the world, reports are popping up of people, particularly young children, getting their toes caught in escalators. The one common theme seems to be the clunky soft-soled clogs known by the name of the most popular brand, Crocs.

September 18, 2007 For the last decade Honda’s ASIMO humanoid robot has been the most visible public face of personal robotics but Hanson Robotics and Massive Software have partnered to change all that with the arrival of Zeno, a robot that can see, hear, talk and remembers who you are.

The world’s top cellphone maker, Nokia, unveiled on Tuesday a new phone model, the Nokia E51, for corporate users and said it still expects to fast growth in the mobile e-mail market.

WHEN David Pritchard travelled to Papua New Guinea to investigate a parasitic worm, he soon noticed something odd about the infected people around him: they never seemed to get ill.

High prices will continue to make life difficult for consumers next year because the government is likely to further deregulate prices of public utility items such as water, power and natural gas.

Police are not the only ones taking fingerprints these days. Starting on Nov 1, fingerprint data will even be stored in the passports issued by many countries.

Czech archaeologists claim a "Pompeii" exists beneath Prague’s Old Town Square and its adjacent streets, and that its existence would largely complicate the possible completion of the city’s Old Town Hall.

The International Space Station crew was to jettison a cargo spacecraft loaded with trash Tuesday, allowing it to incinerate in the Earth’s atmosphere.

I have been a beekeeper since I was a child, having received my first colony of bees for a birthday gift when I was 11 years old. Ever since I can remember, probably since the age of 4, I have been fascinated by honeybees," Jerry Stormer of Punxsutawney said.  Now retired, Stormer continues to keep […]

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you’ve probably already noticed the first hints of autumn: a blush of color in the leaves; earlier sunsets; and cooler evenings. In just a few days, our calendars will catch up with nature, and we’ll begin the headlong rush toward winter.

Women who smoke are more likely to develop a form of acne than those who do not, research from Italy suggests.

John Kanzius is an American inventor, radio and TV engineer and one-time station owner from Erie, Pennsylvania, who has invented a method for treating cancer, and in the process he has also invented a way to "burn salt water".

Internet spending by small businesses in the United States is estimated to pass $70 billion by 2012, up from $47 billion in 2006, according to JupiterResearch’s "US Online Small Business Market Category Forecast, 2007 to 2012" report, cited in DM News.