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Watch out, Craigslist: Cinchified aims to match buyers and sellers in a ridiculously simple way.

All around America there is frustration about a lack of innovation.

Tractor beams -- the ability to trap and move objects using laser light -- are the stuff of science fiction, but a team of NASA scientists has won funding to study the concept for remotely capturing planetary or atmospheric particles and delivering them to a robotic rover or orbiting spacecraft for analysis.

GolfChannel: Webb Simpson's 65 at the BMW Championship on Thursday included a dead shank.

There aren't very many hydrogen cars on the road these days, but there might be soon. And when there are, it will be possible to take the dirty water from your toilet and turn it into fuel. Wastewater--the stuff that goes down the toilet when you flush--is often treated and used for everything from creating artificial snow to watering golf courses.

Love potion isn't just the stuff of romantic songs: The brain emits powerful chemicals when we first go gaga for someone. Once smitten, these “love” chemicals surge and their health effects are set in motion.

Caffeine is a trickier substance than we generally acknowledge. Here's what you need to know to get more out of caffeine--starting with a suggestion to go cold turkey. Caffeine seems so simple, even if you're a veteran user.

It's more like the "multiple device" era. It's amazing to me that there are people who can buy into conspiracy theories like questioning President Obama's "real birthplace," but when it comes to this brave new world of technology that requires us to have multiple devices, no one is suspicious this happened on purpose

Fast food has taken hits for health risks, but some states have huge appetite for the stuff

It came from outer space. It being the stuff of life--amino acids, sugars and other organic molecules. [More]

For Amazon, the deep discount wasn't a random bout of charity--it represented a huge opportunity to present consumers with an alternative to iTunes, and to introduce its cloud-based music service. How'd that go? Behold, the power of Lady Gaga.

"The cloud" is the biggest and most overused buzzword in the tech industry. You can't turn on the TV today without seeing ads from Microsoft , IBM, or Cisco touting the cloud in some form. Take the following IBM commercial, which attempts to define the lofty concept for consumers: the cloud does email, predicts traffic patterns, lowers energy bills, develops software, understands risk

Spring is in the air. And so is pollen. Local plants put forth an abundance of the stuff in a bid to ensure their continued existence, even in the hardest concrete jungles.

I was at lunch at Japango with some of my Foundry Group gang yesterday. When I went to my house in Alaska last July, I took a Mac with me but left my PC at home. Ross bet me $100 that before the month was out I'd beg him to fedex my PC to me.

Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy O.