A German man forgot his car after filling it up at a petrol station, police said Friday.

Taiwan’s hot springs operators have asked the government to let their customers claim soaks in the therapeutic mineral waters on health insurance.

A former technician at AT&T, who alleges that the telecom giant forwards virtually all of its internet traffic into a ’secret room’ to facilitate government spying, says the whole operation reminds him of something out of Orwell’s 1984.

The Smart Cities team at MIT is tackling the problem of city traffic congestion with a "stackable" car to be used as part of a public transportation program, much like those bicycle-sharing programs in Europe, and stowed like a shopping cart.

Squat orange robots and a set of adaptive algorithms are making it possible to deliver online orders faster. The system, so far installed in two giant Staples warehouses, allows workers to fill two to three times as many orders as they could with conventional methods.

A study has identified a hormone from human urine, a xanthurenic-acid derivative, which might help safely flush sodium out of the body and could be harnessed to develop more effective and safer treatments for high blood pressure, or hypertension.

The placenta acts like a parasite to avoid attack by a mother’s immune system, researchers have discovered.

A study has found that copper in the blood might damage a molecule that rids the brain of a substance called amyloid beta, which builds up in toxic quantities in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease.

Online advertising in China is growing at a healthy double-digit rate, according to Nielsen Online AdRelevance.

Yes, they are designed to mess with your mind.  And yes, they all have some hidden trick or they they figure out a way to insult your intelligence.  But here are some truly amazing optical illusions.

Oki has developed a new manufacturing technique that makes it possible to further miniaturize camera modules for mobile phones. The company announced it has started a contract assembly service for W-CSP (Wafer level Chip Sized Package) semiconductors using through-hole technology – a process which can halve the size of conventional camera modules.

It’s a new Da Vinci code, but this time it could be for real.