I first heard about the JuiceTank, a slim iPhone case that doubles as a wall charger, when my friends started raving about it two years ago on Twitter. There was one catch, though it didn’t bother them: The JuiceTank didn’t yet exist.

A super-enriched banana genetically engineered to improve the lives of millions of people in Africa will soon have its first human trial, which will test its effect on vitamin A levels, Australian researchers said Monday.

Its drones and satellites could do for the physical world what its search engine did for the Web.

Defense Department scientists have figured out how to replicate Spider-Man’s superpower. In an age of advanced weaponry, the Marvel hero still relies on his wall-scaling skills to elude his enemies. So the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (D ...

Cloud seeding may be the next frontier for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), more commonly known as drones, with potential global implications. The state of Nevada was one of six selected test sites by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in Dece ...

After excavating your mega-basement in Holland Park, it’s cheaper and easier to leave the JCB entombed down there with the pool, personal cinema and staff quarters.

Faced with a shortage of land, officials in Lanzhou City, in China's Gansu province, embarked on a project in 2012 to bulldoze more than 700 mountains. Now, almost two years in, a group of Chinese scientists have questioned the undertaking. They ...

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If you hate sitting behind a reclined airplane seat, we have some excellent news for you. Monarch Airlines announced Thursday that their fleet's new "ergonomic" aircraft seats will not recline. The new seats feature a slimmer, lightwei ...

Comcast, a perennial champion in the “Most Hated Companies” surveys, has now figured out a way to have me pay to help construct a nationwide network of public WiFi hotspots, using equipment inside my house. Comcast plans to offer public access to the ...

The National Security Agency is through its global surveillance program increasingly gathering electronic images for its facial-recognition programs, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.

NASA has recommitted itself to landing humans on Mars by 2035, but has admitted that this is a project that will require the world to work together. NASA's chief scientist Ellen Stofan gave a talk to the Royal Institution in London a fortnight a ...

Former Microsoft MSFT +0.82% CEO Steve Ballmer has offered $1.8 billion for the Los Angeles Clippers, according to a person familiar with Ballmer’s interest in the NBA team. Ballmer, who retired as Microsoft’s CEO four months ago, has a net worth of ...

Fugitive former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said in his first U.S. network television interview that he was "trained as a spy" and rejected the notion that he was a low-level operative.

From faking holes-in-one for the promise of tips, to indulging the every whim of spoiled suburbanites, the golf world’s silent assistants tell all.

Nothing that modern neuroscience can detect, anyway. This is the message of a provocative article by Pace University psychologist Terence Hines, just published in Brain and Cognition: Neuromythology of Einstein’s brain

Samsung plans to introduce a smartwatch that's capable of making phone calls and receiving data, allowing it to be used without maintaining connection to a smartphone and removing a limitation that's troubled recent watches, according to Th ...

Within every cell in our body, two copies of a tumor suppressor gene called BRCA1 are tasked with regulating the speed at which cells divide. Michael Windelspecht explains how these genes can sometimes mutate, making those cells less specialized and ...

A couple of weeks ago, I put up a post about the absurd method in which the drug laws allow law enforcement officials to determine the quantity of an illicit drug for which a suspect can be charged. The laws aren’t written to punish offenders for the ...

Chipotle is asking customers not to bring firearms into its stores after it says gun rights advocates brought military-style assault rifles into one of its restaurants in Texas. The Denver-based company notes that it has traditionally complied with l ...