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A new iPhone app from insurance giant State Farm uses the device's accelerometers and other sensors to work out how well you're driving. Perfect timing, as it's just emerged that Apple is the world's second-biggest buyer of these sorts of tiny sensors.

A joint study by academics in Switzerland, Germany and at Boston University sheds new light on the formation of financial bubbles and crashes.

I’ll never forget a conversation I had 15 years ago with paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould.

The geopolitical ramifications are, of course, the vastly more important ones, but the world economy shifted slightly last night as word of Osama Bin Laden's death hit the airwaves. If the markets are accurate, we're looking at world where there is less unrest in the Middle East, and, generally, less of a chance of everything coming completely apart at the seams.

Last week, French oil and gas giant Total spent an attention-grabbing $1.4 billion for a majority stake in U.S solar company SunPower .

You don't need an advanced degree in physics or biology to participate in scientific research, just a curiosity about the world around you and an interest in observing, measuring and reporting what you hear and see. The Internet makes it easy these days to take part as an amateur in sophisticated science projects around the world, and now Scientific American is making it even easier for you to find the right one through our new Citizen Science initiative

While many vacation homes offer golf course views, few look out over the game’s seminal playground: the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland. Next summer, however, a handful of individuals will be able to call the world’s oldest and most famous links home when Hamilton Grand—a collection of 26 luxury ...

The ultra-pure water used to clean semiconductors and make microchips would suck vital minerals right out of your body.

The underground laboratory at Gran Sasso in Italy is the home of the Xenon100 experiment, which is being conducted as an international collaboration that includes the Heidelberg-based Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics to detect the mysterious particles directly.

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I don't know how urban myths made it before the Internet. I can't think of anything that has flourished more from it

Ballengee: Lee Westwood is No. 1 in the world despite never winning a major. Is that so bad?

... And Living Social and anyone in the deals business, which has, until now been focused on scoring the deepest discounts for individuals. Here's why Facebook Deals inaugurates a new era.

On April 26, 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster took place. How has the area recovered, and what lessons does it hold

Elysian Spa & Health Club, at the Elysian Hotel on Chicago’s Gold Coast, is offering exotic Thai treatments from now through the end of June as part of a yearlong series of seasonal spa menus, comprising culturally inspired services from around the world. These spring specials consist of the 60-minute ...