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Your clothes may become the medium through which all the world's electronic devices are connected. Soft screens woven into fabric may mean one less thing you must carry with you.
Nature always seems to get it right first. New research and computer modelling carried out at MIT suggest spider webs could inspire advances in engineering and online security.
Nanotechnology is working to keep your electronic devices from overheating, improving efficiency and extending their life. Machines as large as electrical transformers stand to benefit.
When it come to renewable energy, portable electronics or electric cars, storing energy is a must, and the more we can store, the better. Batteries are essential to sustainable energy.
Neuroscientists have taken the first step toward decoding our thoughts into language by observing which parts of our brain respond to different sounds. Potential benefits are endless.
Mysterious dark matter and dark energy may no longer be needed to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion, which may be caused by tension between matter and antimatter.
America's most powerful physics experiment, the Fermilab particle accelerator in Batavia, Illinois, is planning to test the results of a European experiment that claims to have seen the impossible.
While Newt Gingrich may have lost the Florida primary, he has been quick to inspire the popular imagination. But just how out there is his idea for a permanent American moon base?
In what should be a boom time for alien-oriented astronomers, given NASA's recent discovery of an abundance of exoplanets, budget crises are holding back new projects that hold promise.
New software is turning surveillance cameras into a wealth of consumer behavior data. By tracking customer flow throughout the day, shops can better understand what their clients want.
Facebook could become a publicly traded company as early as Wednesday, possibly generating $10 billion in cash and reaching a value of $100 billion. That's a lot of advertising revenue.
A new version of a dating website run by Sean Mills, former president of the Onion, wants to take the weirdness out of online matchmaking by emphasizing real-time social networking.
A machine that uses mathematics to compile videoclips, voiceovers and pieces of music has some raving and others crying fowl. But does this random cinema better approximate life?
Online social networking has made friendship omnipresent, giving you constant updates about even the most casual of acquaintances. How do you go about setting things in order?
To sustain economic growth, the Communist party's top priority, domestic consumption must increase. That means giving people more power over their own money, i.e. market liberalization.
Increases in government spending, reflected by the ballooning global debt, have only papered over a serious structural problem in the economies of industrial democracies.
Canada's system of community colleges is better preparing students to find jobs in careers that interest them. The schools are more nimble, responding to industry demand to train workers.
The Internet company has announced a new policy to block tweets in countries where the content of the message violates local law. Twitter points out there is a fairly obvious workaround.
As underdeveloped economies grow, wages and respect are on the rise for Latin America's working class population. The UN calls the region the world's most unequal society.
What if all the study habits you were taught in school are wrong? Psychologists now say not to take notes, to stop studying for extended periods and to study in many different places.