Scientists have stumbled on a world first in helping a man improve his memory. 
They were experimenting with deep-brain stimulation in an
attempt to curb the appetite of a 30st patient who suffered from a
lifelong obesity problem. Electrodes were pushed into his brain and stimulated with an electric current.
The treatment did not cure his eating problem - […]

Tens of millions of internet users across the Middle East and Asia
have been left without access to the web after a technical fault cut
millions of connections. The outage, which is being blamed on a
fault in a single undersea cable, has severely restricted internet
access in countries including India, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and left
huge numbers of […]

The British government is set to encourage children to play "active computer
games" to tackle the childhood obesity ‘epidemic’ in the country that costs the
exchequer billions of pounds every
year.

What else are you doing right now? Are you eating? Listening to the radio? Is there a TV on in the room?
Like most media, the Internet is being multitasked more than
ever. Multitasking is almost a survival tactic for consumers, who seem
to be faced with more media choices every year.
For marketers, it doesn’t seem to be […]

A new research study by British scientists raises the prospect of babies being born
through entirely artificial means, and possibly sidelining men from the process
of creating life.

The Australian monster is a 13 ton (28,660 pound) two-wheeler devised by Ray Baumann, a stunt driver. It is 9 meters (29.5ft) long, more than 3 meters (9.8ft) high and is powered by a Detroit Diesel truck engine.

The secret to a good cheeseburger is its freshness. Hot off the grill, with crisp vegetables if you like. Not the kind of food you’d think to put in a can.

Unable to afford food, poor people in Haiti resorted to eating mud cookies made from dried yellow dirt.

Inventor and saxophone player Peter Davey has come up with a device that he claims boils water in no time.

Ever laid back and wished your aches, pains and stress would just float away? Well, you could be in luck. A new ‘hover lounger’ has been unveiled promising to do exactly that.

Now you can feel like those suckers putting in a full day at the
Springfield power plant. That is, you’ll be under the watchful eye of
C. Montgomery Burns with this webcam. You’ll know exactly how Karl and
Lenny feel, not to mention Homer. Don’t fall asleep with a donut in
your mouth. (w/pic)