Consumers could be buying even smaller iPods, cellphones and computers in less than a decade as new research from McGill University suggests nearly invisible nano-particles will transform everyday electronics. .. Read more

China will build a multi-million-dollar research base on its east coast as it steps up its efforts to search for energy sources and rare earths on the ocean floor, state media said. .. Read more

Internet telephone capabilities added to Google’s free Web-based email service in the United States appeared to have been successful, with more than a million calls logged in the 24 hours after its launch. .. Read …

Surveys indicate the phenomenon, dubbed “character amnesia”, is widespread across China, causing young Chinese to fear for the future of their ancient writing system. Young Japanese people also report the problem, which is caused by …

Africa is one of the world’s fastest-growing economic regions. European executives and investors shouldn’t ignore its immense business potential… Read more

The Dearborn, MI based automaker says Asia will account for 70 percent of the company’s global growth in the next decade, most of it from China and India…. Read more

It’s not just our country that’s getting a little over-crowded – our whole solar system is too. Fascinating colour-coded footage recorded over 30 years has documented the increasing number of asteroids flying close to Earth. …

Anybots’ QB is just one of a group of new remote-controlled robots now hitting the market. Employing communications technologies similar to Skype and robotic technologies akin to those found in robots used to explore Mars …

The success of outsourcing companies such as Infosys has helped young Indians who hope to launch startups. … Read more

The economy has evolved so much since the middle of the 20th Century that many cities that were among the largest and most vibrant in America have collapsed. Some have lost more than half of …

It is being reported that law enforcement officials in Washington, D.C., plan to use a new computer program that claims to be able to predict which citizens are most likely to commit crime. The concept …

Politically, it’s awkward to argue that things would have been even worse without the stimulus, even though that’s what most nonpartisan economists believe. But the battle over the Recovery Act’s short-term rescue has obscured its …

Swiss scientists have succeeded in clearing a toxin from blood in just a few minutes, using specially produced nanomagnets. The procedure appears promising. If the method can be put into practice, it could one day …

A Russian gas tanker is this month making a historic voyage across the famed Northeast passage as receding ice opens up an elusive trade route from Asia to the West sought for centuries by explorers…. …

One major area in which Generation Y differs from its parents is its focus on experiences as opposed to material things. I recently went into several top business schools to ask for ideas about reaching …

Even the most extreme geoengineering approaches will not stop sea levels from rising due to climate change, a study suggests. New research proposes that as many as 150 million people could be affected as ocean …

Manual labor is becoming more and more difficult for Japan’s aging farmers, prompting a Tokyo professor to devise a high-tech solution: mechanize the bodies of the farmers themselves. … Read more

China has just been declared the world’s second biggest economy, and now it has a monster traffic jam to match. Triggered by road construction, the snarl-up began 10 days ago and was 100 kilometers (60 …

Synthetic biology does away with systems biology’s untidiness by focusing on individual parts, creating a tool set for engineering organisms unconstrained by biology as we know it, making the discipline more like software programming. But …

South Africa wants to be considered among the leaders of the developing world along with Brazil, Russia, India and China, its president said Wednesday, pushing for membership of a grouping that has growing global influence. …

Apple Inc. is in advanced talks with News Corp. to let iTunes users rent TV shows for 99 cents and is in discussions with other media companies about similar deals, said three people familiar with …

Lukas Biewald, CEO of CrowdFlower and a speaker at next month’s Web 2.0 Expo in New York, is at the center of the labor shift. His company has found an interesting way to tap Internet-connected …

Scientists have developed a drug that successfully resets and restarts the natural 24-hour body clock of lab mice. The ability to do this in a mammal opens up the potential to pharmacologically address a variety …

Toyota’s Prius hybrid is becoming a little less quiet with a new electronic humming device that is the automaker’s answer to complaints that pedestrians can’t hear the top-selling car approaching. … Read more

It is more commonly known as the gas that fills cheap party balloons and makes your voice squeak if you inhale it. But helium is actually a precious resource that is being squandered with Earth’s …