"Termite guts are incredibly efficient," said Andreas Brune of the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany. "In theory, they could transform an A4-sized sheet of paper into two liters (1.8 pints) of hydrogen," he said.

India plans to send combat-trained camels to solve the transport headache facing a fledgling UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region, officers say.

This is the Aerion Supersonic Business Jet, the first private plane that will fly at 1.6 Mach. The first unit has just been purchased by Sheikh Rashid, the ruler of Dubai.

US e-commerce will lose $3.6 billion to fraud in 2007, up 20% over 2006, according to a CyberSource survey.

If you are a die-hard PC user, but you have always been a little jealous of Front Row on Macs, this USB Media remote can provide a solution.

Since the 1978 birth of Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) has produced approximately three million infants worldwide. Although success rates continually improve, the science of making babies in the lab is still hit-or-miss.

Moms often use food as a means to reward, bribe or entertain their kids. However, researchers in Australia are warning that this can undermine a child’s ability to self-regulate their own eating according to hunger.

In response to declining music sales in the UK, the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has called for the music industry to put an end to DRM. The organization—which represents retailers who sell music and DVDs—blames draconian digital copy protection technologies for the slow growth of the digital music market.

Consumer gift cards were the hottest item of last year’s holiday season. Naturally, stores are pushing them again this holiday season—but maybe for a reason few consumers suspect.

Even infants can tell the difference between naughty and nice playmates, and
know which to choose, a new study
finds.

Transplantable hearts grown in petri dishes and the regeneration of amputated
limbs were once the things of science
fiction.