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Price: $310 Measuring 40mm in diameter x 10mm in thickness, the Braun BN0036 Digital Watch has a neat display enveloped in style. The thick matt black plated stainless steel case together with the black mesh strap gives ...

It's been less than 48 hours since Google launched its online tool that allows people in the European Union to request to be "forgotten" from search results, and the company has already received 12,000 requests, accordin...

If you're looking in the right place, sometimes it's easy to spot an artist's influences. Some of George Lucas's inspirations for Star Wars are well documented, but Squarespace interface director Michael Heilemann is wor...

Twenty years after the hormone leptin was found to regulate metabolism, appetite, and weight through brain cells called neurons, researchers have found that the hormone also acts on other types of cells to control appeti...

A molecule critical to stem cell function plays a major role in determining human hair color, according to a new study. The study describes for the first time the molecular basis for one of our most noticeable traits. It...

A previously unrecognized genetic cause for two types of birth defects found in newborn boys has described in a report. Cryptorchidism is characterized by the failure of descent of one or both testes into the scrotum dur...

Around a quarter of smokers who carry a defect in the BRCA2 gene will develop lung cancer at some point in their lifetime, a large-scale, international study reveals. Scientists announce a previously unknown link between...

Men with newly diagnosed metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer lived more than a year longer when they received a chemotherapy drug as initial treatment instead of waiting to for the disease to become resistant t...

The combined action of two enzymes, Srs2 and Exo1, prevents and repairs common genetic mutations in growing yeast cells, according to a new study. Because such mechanisms are generally conserved throughout evolution, at ...

Breast cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy may lose their ability to have a baby. However, a drug that suppresses hormone production in the body can protect women from permanent early menopause.

If your bank account has left you unaware of the state of the 4K movement, here's a fun surprise: if you buy a 4K movie from Sony, you'll need a Sony television to play it back. If you buy one from Samsung, you'll need a...

A new hormone called erythroferrone, which regulates the iron supply needed for red blood-cell production, has been discovered by researchers. Iron is an essential functional component of hemoglobin. Using a mouse model,...

New genetic insights into a rare and deadly form of childhood and young adult brain cancer called brainstem glioma has been identified by an international team of researchers. The researchers identified a genetic mutatio...

With the 2014 FIFA World Cup just around the corner, Microsoft is now the latest brand to show how it plans to get in on the tournament's hype. Through a partnership between its Internet Explorer team and ESPN, both part...

Artist Jonathan Keats began a photo project using pinhole cameras to capture 100-year exposures of Berlin, with help from local residents. The images will be exhibited 100 years later. The post Artist to create 100-year ...

In a key milestone, technicians at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida have attached the world's largest heat shield to a pathfinding version of NASA's Orion crew capsule edging ever closer to its inaugural unmanne...

The brain's special abilities entice engineers like Silvia Ferrari to model it when creating new control and navigation systems for aircraft, robots and more.

Myspace wants you back — even if it requires a little blackmail The social network is emailing users old photos of themselves in hopes of enticing them to return to Myspace. The emails include one or two old photos and...

A mind-controlled iPhone? Sure, we'll take it. A mind-controlled Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1? Why not? A mind-controlled airplane powered by the pilot's brainwaves? Hold on for a moment while we look for the nearest emergen...

At the Code conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif  last week, Aether co-founder Duncan Lamb showed off a new speaker called Cone that connects to your home wireless network to stream music and other audio.  So far...

New submitter Bodhammer (559311) writes "German researchers looked at the brains of 64 men between the ages of 21 and 45 and found that one brain region (the striatum, linked to reward processing), was smaller in the bra...

Walt Mossberg calls out six interesting observations from the first Code Conference.