China aims to leapfrog the United States in technological development
with substantial investment in nanotechnology, but whether those
efforts will actually pay off is still unclear. That was the message
from University of California at Santa Barbara researchers presenting
their findings on the state of Chinese nanotechnology at the AAAS
annual meeting.

The Balloon Project is a video project that started with the idea to send a video camera over the city of San Francisco – no strings attached: just the wind, gravity, and chasing it down to wherever it lands.

They’re the bane of pet owners’ lives – those terrible pangs of guilt you endure when occasionally forced to leave Fido or Fluffy home alone for the day.
Well, now a firm has come up with a novel way to put your mind at rest: a talking food bowl that will reassure your pet with the [...]

India has already built the world’s cheapest car – the £1,250 Tata Nano – now the country has unveiled the telecoms equivalent: the £10 "people’s phone".

Finally, a lunar eclipse visible from America during a convenient time! We have a total lunar eclipse this Wednesday evening (February 20th) which should turn the moon red as Earth’s shadow passes over it.

This robot looks somewhat like a human-sized Nintendo Wii controller
with arms attached. It’s the SmartPal V created by Yasukawa Electric
Corporation. He was designed from the ground up to be a service robot,
helping in the home with daily chores. It will sort your laundry by
color and type, and even hang it up. (w/pic)

If any real city on our planet can claim an active stake in creating
unnecessary urban landscape, it’s probably Dubai. Artificial islands
arranged in the shape of the world? The world’s only seven-star hotel?
And in 2012, it will also become home to the largest, tallest arch
bridge ever.

An 18-year-old girl in England who found out she has four kidneys is going to donate her extra organs to a cancer sufferer.

"The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon
itself." Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation in 1837, but his
words echo with painful prescience in today’s very different United
States. Americans are in serious intellectual trouble — in danger of
losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of
anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

The chip looks like a standard microscope slide, but it holds hundreds
of tiny white dots loaded with human cell cultures and enzymes. It’s
designed to mimic human reactions to potentially toxic chemical
compounds, meaning critters like rats and mice may no longer need to be
on the front line of tests for new blockbuster drugs or wrinkle creams.

The Oprah touch doesn’t just work for traditional books. More than 1 million copies of Suze Orman’s
"Women & Money" were downloaded after the announcement last week on
Winfrey’s television show that the e-book edition would be available
for free on her Web site for a period of 33 hours.

Managers are less likely to have cancer, while shop assistants have a greater
chance of suffering back pain and nurses have a higher rate of heart disease,
according to a new Australian
study.

If you are banking on a vitamin supplement daily to make up for any deficiencies
in your diet, you may be getting a whole lot more, or actually less, than you
bargained for.