As tracking technology advances, your mobile devices may soon be watching every move you make, a feature that experts say could bring about revolutionary user experiences—and privacy abuse.
The Asia-to-Alaska land bridge disappeared a thousand years earlier than thought, a new study says—fueling speculation that the first Americans arrived by boat.
The U.S. population will cross the 300 million mark this week, adding to what a new report calls a nation of "super-sized resource appetites" making enormous demands on the planet's resources.
Games played on handheld devices facilitate "travel" to Baghdad, save the world from infectious diseases, and give new meaning to the dangers of "pirates" on Wall Street.
The isolated communist country has been stockpiling bomb ingredients for decades, security analysts say, and will probably keep testing "until they get it right."
Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank have won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering "micro credit," small loans to help the poor run their own businesses.
Cooking, breaking rocks, hauling bricks—some 12 million children work in the Asian country. A new law aims to change that but may do more harm than good.
The eating habits of dung beetles, the attraction of mosquitoes to Limburger cheese, and "digital rectal massage" were among the research awarded at this year's Ig Nobels.
People in the developed world today are taller and more robust than their great-great-grandparents ever imagined, and not just because of better medicine, a researcher says.
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