In the early morning hours of Aug.13, Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility (NIF) focused all 192 of its ultra-powerful laser beams on a tiny deuterium-tritium filled capsule. In the nanoseconds that followed, the capsule imploded and ...

Chopping wood to clear land and feed the family produces more testosterone in men than competitive activities.

More details continue to emerge on the UK government's two recent anti-journalist actions. The Guardian reports that the order to (pointlessly) smash up Guardian hardware came from the top. A spokesman for Clegg made clear that Heywood was...

The last few years have seen an unprecedented number of people rushing to develop mobile apps for iOS and Android. But looking at the installed user base on each platform and information on the payouts made by the different companies, it appears that ...

The recently discovered Higgs boson could provide a possible "portal" to physics that may help explain some of the attributes of the enigmatic dark energy, scientists suggest.

A visual journey examining how the homeless use technology in their daily lives to look for work, pass time, and pursue their interests.

Elysium, Neill Blomkamp's sci-fi thriller, is expected to be the highest grossing film this weekend. It lacks the nuance of Blomkamp's great District 9, but it's still exponentially more radical than your average Hollywood fare. It ...

Bruce Schneier: Both government agencies and corporations have cloaked themselves in so much secrecy that it's impossible to verify anything they say.

Since last night, the aviation geeks have been in paroxysms of agony and ecstasy and lighting up Twitter and airline forums, and it can only mean one thing: new airline design. JetBlue has quietly put up a video of upcoming interior design for its ne ...

Twenty-six passengers on a Qantas flight from Santiago to Sydney were struck down with a gastro intestinal illness midflight on Thursday, resulting in a mass vomiting and diarrhoea episode.

Google portrays itself as the sort of responsible internet giant that pushes back against intrusive federal requests for user data and is not a collaborator in the US government's program to eavesdrop on the internet traffic of pretty much the e ...

Given the passage of a sweeping new law legalizing marijuana in the entire nation of Uruguay by their Congress on August 2 (with the apparent inevitable passage by the Uruguayan Senate this fall), the South American nation is likely to become the fir ...

“Weight discrimination, in addition to being hurtful and demeaning, has real consequences for the individual’s physical health,” says study author Angelina Sutin, a psychologist and assistant professor at the Florida State University College of Medic ...

This week prime minister David Cameron announced further details of his crusade to have adult material censored in the UK. It's a controversial topic for a number of reasons, with even those unconcerned about losing access to porn wondering what ...

A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin says Russia has not budged from its refusal to extradite U.S. leaker Edward Snowden, who has applied for asylum. Snowden, who is believed to have been staying at the Moscow airport transit zone since June ...

Silk has walked straight off the runway and into the lab. According to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, silk implants placed in the brain of laboratory animals and designed to release a specific chemical, adenosine, may ...

Babies whose mothers smoked crack cocaine while pregnant do not face the kinds of health risks that many scientists initially feared, a new study has concluded.

Plenty of people have Google+ accounts, but do many people actually use them for being social? Marketing Land reports that online brand management firm Gigya has released new data showing that Google’s social network only accounts for 2% of all socia ...

A definitive DNA match has been made from the remains of Albert DeSalvo, the confessed Boston Strangler, to crime scene evidence from a 1964 slaying that was part of the Stranglerâs murder spree, authorities announced today. DeSalvo confessed before ...

Six bills are in play, and US businesses are united in wanting something to pass.