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Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) came under fire for making a ruling that many consider outside its authority. Without levying a fine, it charged that Comcast violated federal policy when it interfered with a file-sharing application used by

This article says it could happen. I doubt it (for a variety of reasons: technology being one of them), but it’s definitely a wake up call. So, stop surfing the Internet and GO WORK OUT NOW!

This is nice to see, especially given his recent comments about Internet use…

The Salk Institute’s Ron Evans just released a study where certain drugs trick a mouse’s body into thinking it exercised. Sounds a bit matrix-like to me, but if it could work on humans without side effects, the demand would be

Now, this is quite disturbing. As if going through airport security weren’t bad enough, but now officials are authorized to take AND COPY your data. Increase in identity theft, anyone?

“The 16-hour operation was carried out last Friday on a farm worker who lost both arms in an accident.” Read more here.

This is a great article by Gregory Pence at the University of Alabama. He argues that: “Wholly unintentionally, the U.S. ban on federal funding jump-started innovation in assisted reproduction. One byproduct of the ban was that the National Institutes of

When it comes to the Internet, Republican presidential candidate John McCain recently said that he’s “an illiterate who has to rely on his wife for any assistance he can get.” In an era where the Internet is playing an ever

Well, this is a headline we don’t see very often, but it shouldn’t surprise anyone. As older people become healthier, why wouldn’t they continue to have sex?

Researchers at UCLA have teamed up with Singapore-based company AWAK Technologies Pte. Ltd. to develop a commercial wearable kidney based on the design by Martin Roberts, an assistant professor of clinical medicine at UCLA. Here’s the press release.