In what could prove to be a major breakthrough in quantum memory storage and information processing, German researchers have frozen the fastest thing in the universe: light. And they did so for a record-breaking one minute.

CineFix presents Inception retold via old-school 8-bit - and a little 16 bit ;) - game tech. No quarters or controllers required!

A novel "regenerative" technique to repair infected teeth - claimed to be painless and cheaper than the traditional root canal treatment - has been developed by doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.

For students of international conflict, 2013 provided plenty to examine. There was civil war in Syria, ethnic violence in China, and riots to the point of revolution in the Ukraine. For those working at Duke University’s Ward Lab, all specialists in ...

The local TV meteorologist is dying, but it’s never been a better time to be a weatherperson.

The West’s failure to confront China over its increasingly vocal territorial ambitions is similar to the disastrous appeasement of Adolf Hitler in the late 1930s, the Philippine president has claimed. In comments that are likely to receive a furious ...

A team of researchers at the University of Delaware has developed a highly selective catalyst capable of electrochemically converting carbon dioxide—a greenhouse gas—to carbon monoxide with 92 percent efficiency. The carbon monoxide then can be used ...

Yahoo's latest acquisition is Incredible Labs, the company behind personal-assistant iOS app Donna. Most of the seven-member Incredible Labs team will stay on with Yahoo, though the iOS app will no longer be available for download.

Well informed Chicagoans differ as to whether Al Capone welcomed his conviction for evasion of federal income tax; but majority opinion seems to be that he did. While he has not yet been sentenced, it seems certain that he will receive only a couple ...

The Las Vegas-based retailer is now going even more radical, introducing a new approach to organizing the company. It will eliminate traditional managers, do away with the typical corporate hierarchy and get rid of job titles, at least internally. Th ...

The byline of Dick Metcalf, one of the country’s pre-eminent gun journalists, has gone missing. It has been removed from Guns & Ammo magazine, where his widely-read column once ran on the back page. He no longer stars on a popular television show ...

A cave discovered near the source of Indonesia’s massive earthquake-spawned tsunami contains the footprints of past gigantic waves dating up to 7,500 years ago, a rare natural record that suggests the next disaster could be centuries away — or perhap ...

A 92 year old Japanese grandmother has handmade this massive collection of colorful embroidered Temari balls. The Temari ball (Temari means “hand ball” in Japanese) is a folk art form that first originated in China, but was brought to Japan around th ...

According to one report, Twitter is considering a new feature that would allow users to edit a tweet after it has been published. But is that really something we need, or are we better off without it?

New technology has thieves gaining entry into cars nationwide in a mysterious way.

Pakistani authorities on Saturday said that 11 schoolteachers who were administering polio vaccines to children in northwest Pakistan had been kidnapped by militants. “These schoolteachers were sent to Sepah village in the Bara subdivision of Khyber ...

There are certain things you won't be encouraged to do wearing one of these. Those are the things I did.

Lenovo, the Chinese technology giant, placed a huge and ultimately successful bet when it bought IBM’s personal computer business eight years ago. Now Lenovo is contemplating an even riskier gamble: acquiring BlackBerry, the once mighty smartphone ma ...

BREAKING BAD creator Vince Gilligan has praised 'piracy' for helping his hugely popular AMC TV drama reach new audiences. Speaking to BBC Newsbeat, Gilligan echoed comments made by Time Warner CEO Alan Bewkes earlier this year, who said tha ...

Remember the name Michal Bodzianowski. He's the first craft brewer in outerspace. The six-grader from Colorado won a prestigious national science competition by wondering how microgravity affects the fermentation process needed to make beer. The ...