Luigi Palombi: The Australian federal court ruled that isolated human genetic material can be patented. The US supreme court disagrees – and the Americans got it exactly right.

At only 8mm thin, and weighing in at less than 400g, the 2015 IKEA Catalogue comes pre-installed with thousands of home furnishing ideas.

Olive Garden is about to try a pretty outlandish gimmick to lure folks in the door: pasta up the wazoo. They're not calling it that, of course. But on Monday, the casual dining chain whose business has seriously softened in recent years, will announce plans for its first-ever "Never Ending Pasta Pass" -- which, for $100, gives the holder the right to consume all of the pasta, salad, bread and Coca-Cola branded soft drinks that they can stuff down for seven weeks.

The world of medicine is being transformed by 3D printing technology. In Beijing, doctors have performed the world's first surgery using a 3D printed vertebra. The procedure was done in the neck of a 12-year-old boy who had developed cancer.

Sonia and Anita, two sisters living in India, have been blind since birth, but a simple eye operation makes it possible for them to see their home for the first time. The nonprofit organization 20/20/20 provides free operations to these sisters--as well as thousands of other people in developing countries. These procedures empower people in impoverished communities to create better futures.

The eruption of Mount Tavurvur volcano on August 29th, 2014. Captured by Phil McNamara.

China has seen its fair share of food safety scandals lately. There was the meat scandal that affected fast food brands earlier this summer, preceded by numerous incidents including contaminated strawberries exported in 2012 and the baby food scandal in 2008 that made hundreds of thousands of infants sick. So it's no surprise that people are developing inventive ways for people in China to keep themselves safe.

The short, strange era of human civilization would appear to be drawing to a close.

It's zucchini season! They are super cheap and healthy. Feel free to substitute any soft nut in place of pine nuts.

Neurotechnology startup MMT records thoughts for future playback on a screen or in the mind itself

New genetic research on ancient bones reveals that a prehistoric population of hunters migrated into the high Arctic of North America and Greenland and survived for 4,000 years in almost complete isolation from the rest of humanity. Then, about 700 years ago, they vanished — either victims of genocide or simply out-competed by a new population of hunters with more advanced technology, the research indicates.

When Leandra Becerra Lumbreras was born, the dust had still not settled on the Civil War, Teddy Roosevelt was a little-known cowboy in the Dakotas, and no one had ever heard of radio, basketball or the airplane.

The fear of running out of battery wields such an extraordinary influence over how we use smartphones. We benchmark every task according to how much battery it takes. We are never too far from a charger, and many of us carry a heavy, cumbersome power bank.

In 50 years, most of southeastern Louisiana not protected by levees will be part of the Gulf of Mexico. The state is losing a football field of land every 48 minutes — 16 square miles a year — due to climate change, drilling and dredging for oil and gas, and levees on the Mississippi River. At risk: Nearly all of the nation’s domestic energy supply, much of its seafood production, and millions of homes.

Researchers unveiled a breakthrough imaging technique Thursday that show what blood flow in the brain looks like on cocaine. For the first time, researchers have been able to prove “cocaine induced microischemia,” a precursor to stroke that arises when blood flow shuts down.

Ukraine accused Russia yesterday of entering its territory with tanks, artillery and troops, an assertion quickly endorsed by President Obama, who said he believes Russian troops are threatening the nation’s sovereignty even as he ruled out military action, saying it was “not in the cards.”

Learn the Easiest Corn on the Cob method ever!

Scientists based in the U.S. at the University of California Davis, and in Taiwan at Taipei Medical University as well as the National Health Research Institutes have simultaneously discovered a new process of “chromatophagy” cellular suicide and shed light on the way a “starvation” drug deprives cancer cells of arginine, a necessary amino acid.

The Madagascar Pochard, the world's rarest bird, will not be able to thrive without a new wetland home.

Cat really CAN understand their owners

With ultraviolet vision, birds see the world very differently than we do

Word on the street is that Tesla may be working on a 500-mile graphene battery. Graphene is, of course, a kind of supermaterial, and it's possible Tesla is looking into it, but I'm also a bit skeptical. First, let's look at the reasons why someone might think Tesla is working on an electric car battery that uses graphene.

At the time of this writing, the PlayStation Network is offline, reportedly due to a DDoS attack that occurred in the early hours of Sunday, August 24.

Finding influence from Land Art as well as specific works like Suprametist painter Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square, Rousse pre-dates the modern trends of illusionistic installation, having perfected his trademark geometric style and his fondness for desolate locations decades ago. According to his site’s bio, Rousse considers himself a painter, sculptor, architect, and ultimately a photographer, but considers his raw material to be his great inspiration: Space.

A new report claims that Russian scientists have discovered traces of marine life living on the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS). Vladimir Solovyev, the official in charge of Russia’s ISS segment, told the news agency Itar-Tass that tiny plankton and microscopic organisms had been discovered on the spacecraft's exterior, describing the finds as “absolutely unique”.

More than two years into the Curiosity rover’s lonely trek across Mars, conspiracy theorists believe they’ve struck gold: an ‘alien thigh bone’ has been spotted on the surface of the red planet. For keen alien hunters, the image above - taken by the rover’s MastCam on August 14 – is proof that large animals once roamed Mars, possibly even dinosaurs.

Makeup artist Laura Jenkinson has an unusual technique that brings fictional characters to life around a human mouth.