Apple has unveiled the latest version of its iPod Nano, featuring what it says are the thinnest measurements yet.

A popsci.com writer reports on a swimsuit whose wearers have already broken 11 world records in two months. Will the technology pave the way for a new era in swimming, or will FINA crack down?

On March 30, 1842, James M. Venable, a resident of Georgia and the not-so-proud owner of two neck cysts, finally consented to having a doctor cut into his neck — while Venable was wide awake — and remove one of the cysts.

He didn't feel a thing.

The attitude of global warming evangelists is akin to a new religion says sceptic Brian Durrant, editor of the Fleet Street Letter...

Cenex, the UK’s first national centre of excellence for low carbon and fuel cell technologies, is hosting a joint two-day conference, exhibition and seminar on Low Carbon Vehicle Technology and Low Emission Transport Strategies, at The Source at Meadowhall, Sheffield, on Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th March.

Troux Technologies announced that Fiducia, the leading German IT services company for the financial services industry, will implement its software platform, Troux 7, to enable strategic IT planning and to ensure that its extensive SOA program is properly aligned with business and IT transformation initiatives.

Japan's Toshiba Corp waved the white flag in the high-definition home movie war on Tuesday, giving up on its HD DVD format after losing the support of key studios and retailers to the Blu-ray technology backed by Sony Corp.

AppDNA, the leading developer of application testing software, today announced that its AppTitude product has been awarded “Approved” status by Broadband Testing, one of Europe’s foremost independent network testing facilities and consultancy organisations for enterprise IT solutions.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota were able to create a beating rat heart using the outer structure of one heart and injecting heart cells from another rat.

Scientists are examining whether they can capture the energy driving human sperm to propel nanoscale robots to deliver medicine.

When history is written, how will the fiasco of Man-Made Global Warming be described? Will those responsible for propagating one of the biggest scams in history be given their due credit? This is a complex subject. One I will try and summarise.

New research looking at mice with schizophrenia opens up the possibility of identifying genetic markers for the disease and maybe sometime in the future the possibility of a treatment.

And what of the Internet? It was supposed to allow us to stay at home and work. But now, we use the Internet to plan our trips and buy our aeroplane tickets.

Once more, a case of the lethal H5N1 strain of avian flu has been found in eastern England. This time, though, nobody cares.

Rupert Murdoch’s rumoured plan is to make much of the Wall Street Journal's content free. he inexorable trend in finance and news is that information and data have no monetary value. They are ubiquitous.

The Nigerians are still in business. Apparently, there are people who fall for their scams. They send a letter or an email explaining that they have a huge amount of money that they need to transfer to the United States…all they need is the help of an ordinary person with a bank account.

Research shows that we sleep less than we think we do. One Australian, on the other hand, can snooze for more than a year straight.

German Gerhard Ertl has been awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces.

Frenchman Albert Fert and German Peter Grunberg have been announced as winners of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics, for their discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance, which made smaller magnetic hard drives, and the iPod possible.

We all know that too little sleep is bad for your health. But a study shows that too much bad for you as well.

This question has been asked numerous times throughout time and has been widely debated among scientists. Now new research shed some light on this debate.

Britain abandons the Doctor's White Coat today after a hundred years of successful use- we ask why.

Sex is hard work fundementally. Who would want to do it when there are better things to do like lie in the Sun all day- at least that was the attitude of one Koala bear until a potential rival turned up and suddenly he became very interested in the subject.

Recent news that Owen Wilson the Hollywood actor has attempted suicide prompts us to reconsider one of the most depressing phenomenon of modern life at the moment- the rising suicide rate amongst young and old men.

What is this Bit torrent thing that everyone talks about and how do I use it and how does it work?

NASA scientists have discovered a dying star 350 light-years away from earth that's hurtling through space with a comet like tail in it's wake.

Yesterday in Tuscany archaeologists discovered a perfectly preserved Etruscan tomb dating to some time between the first and third centuries B.C.E, or nearing the end of the Etruscan period.

The iStation Traveller is available to purchase.

Apparantly space has not seen humanity at its best- as it has recently been reported by an independent NASA report that the agency has let many astronauts go into space whilst drunk. Henry Midgley reflects

New evidence suggests that Alexandria could much older than historians had thought. Archaeologists have discovered material suggesting that the site was home to a major settlement for seven hundred years or more before the time of Alexander.