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“We convert cellphones into devices that diagnose diseases,” says Aydogan Ozcan, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at U.C.L.A.

Asteroids slamming into Earth, a planet sneaking up on us, an angry sun singing the planet—find out why these and other end-of-the-world events won't be happening in 2012.

In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible, his experiments showed.

In 2005, a huge 35 mile rift broke the Ethiopian desert apart and immediately led to geological claims that a new ocean was appearing there because two

Twitter has just begun the rollout of Project Retweet, Twitter's official integration of the retweet. Retweeting is when a user reshares interesting tweets

They're called "Lazarus species" — creatures that have disappeared, sometimes for millions of years, only to miraculously be rediscovered again in modern times.

Artificially generated black holes could provide us with the power to make inter-solar travel a possibility. New research shows how strapping a black hole to your starship might just give you the juice to get to Alpha Centauri.

Early this morning, Google is launching a new feature that lets you view what data is being stored on a range of Google services. Google Dashboard also will let you control at least some of that data and how it's...

In this age of hyper connectivity, if you think that you're in direct competition with someone else, there's something wrong with your business strategy. For many businesses, there's an angle or a niche just waiting to be exploited — and the key to unlocking this success is to not compete at all.

Does running a marathon push the body further than it is meant to go?

Today, as soon as Google showed off its beta GPS navigator, the stocks of Garmin, TomTom and other companies in that industry fell into the toilet. It's hard to compete with free Google apps, but that's not why they're screwed...