Financial traders have a new toy: Bitcoin, a digital currency variously dismissed as a Ponzi scheme or lauded as the greatest invention since the Internet. Unlike conventional fiat money and other digital currencies, Bitcoin runs [...]

The technology itself shows a stunning sophistication in breaking the fourth wall of the viewing experience   Microsoft has paired with the classic children’s show, Sesame Street, to create what they called the first “two-way” [...]

Two new blood tests could help doctors detect colon and stomach cancers simply, cheaply and early without the need for invasive procedures or unpleasant examinations

Robots that can make their own decisions have so far been confined to science fiction movies, but a child-sized figure with big eyes and a white face is trying hard to turn fiction into reality.

U.S. researchers have discovered a compound that can kill breast cancer stem cells

The U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen aim to reach agreement on a post-Kyoto pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which are blamed for global warming.

Chinese President Hu Jintao’s pledge this week to cut “carbon intensity” marked Beijing’s first acceptance that it must control emissions

Developing economies shouldn’t be locked into carbon lowering targets under a new global climate pact

Activists launched what they called the world’s biggest campaign to combat global warming on Friday

Two banana diseases spreading in Africa could hurt food supply for 30 million people on the continent who largely rely on the crop

Image by freefotouk via Flickr Many people (myself included) have painted a picture of how the consumer piece of the smart grid could develop into a real-time, two-way communication network that looks a lot like [...]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov 13 (Reuters) – Investment in Canada’s venture capital sector rose in the third quarter as U.S. investors sank more money into start-up Internet-focused companies, an industry body said on Tuesday. Investors [...]