Spiders “talk” to potential mates using a type of light not visible to the human eye, scientists report.

A team found that male jumping spiders (Phintella vittata) are using ultraviolet B (UVB) rays to communicate with females.

While UVA rays are...

Decaying brains, or the fear thereof, have inspired a mini-industry of brain health products — not just supplements like coenzyme Q10, ginseng and bacopa, but computer-based fitter-brain products as well.

Cubit is an open-source, multitouch, tabletop display, similar to Microsoft’s Surface but less expensive and requiring assembly. The top picture shows a user whose fingers are leaving traces on the table’s surface. The bottom picture shows the Cubit...

The main goal of the website is to share wishes worldwide and learn from one another. A problem might have been solved in one country but not in another, so by sharing our problems and solutions, we can share good ideas.
Companies can also search the...

NASA has just released CAPS, which is short for Communication Alert and Prediction System. This system enables that anyone can get a model of the Earth’s Ionosphere live.

Google is already very successful due to its PageRank technology for web pages, and now the company has taken a further step by unveiling a cutting-edge image ranking technology called VisualRank. At the International World Wide Web Conference in...

Speaking at IBM’s Business Partner Leadership Conference here, Google CEO Eric Schmidt reiterated his position that social networks are still too closed. “If it’s not searchable by Google, it’s not open, and open is best for the consumer,” he said.

Robots developed on the iCub platform have technologies for – grasping, locomotion, interaction, and even language-action association – these are of great relevance to further advances in the field of industrial service robotics.

The average temperature of the sea around Europe and North America is expected to cool slightly over the decade while the tropical Pacific remains unchanged.

This would mean that the 0.3°C global average temperature rise which has been predicted for...

Personal details of Facebook users could potentially be stolen, the BBC technology programme Click has found.

The popular social networking site allows users to add a variety of applications to their profile.

But a malicious program, masquerading...