The humble fishing line is being used to create some incredibly strong artificial muscles.
Charles Poladian
Feb 22, 2014
Some snakes don't need to board a plane to soar through the air.
Roxanne Palmer
Feb 21, 2014
Housing data and corporate earnings could determine if stocks maintain gains from the previous session.
Arjun Kashyap
Feb 21, 2014
The pact involves automatic sharing of bank information and could be signed as soon as the Sat. G-20 meeting.
Sneha Shankar
Feb 21, 2014
Economic data from around the world have managed to hurt sentiment among U.S. investors.
Arjun Kashyap
Feb 20, 2014
Just after a UN report on gross human rights violations, North Korea detinas an Australian citizen.
Michelle FlorCruz
Feb 19, 2014
Demand for the oil -- which is not traditionally used in Chinese cooking -- is taking off, surprisingly.
Sophie Song
Feb 19, 2014
Stocks are struggling to match last week's performance, but earnings and economic data could help.
Arjun Kashyap
Feb 19, 2014
Ricky and Robin Wright aren't assuming the worst about their 19-year-old daughter, last heard from eight months ago.
Howard Koplowitz
Feb 18, 2014
Nguyen is the most common surname in Vietnam -- an estimated 40 percent of people in the country (and the Vietnamese diaspora) carry that name.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 18, 2014
Australia reportedly sends asylum seekers arriving by boat for detention and processing in offshore camps.
Suman Varandani
Feb 18, 2014
Australian taxpayers gave a $794 million payment to Rupert Murdoch, thanks to "paper transactions" among News Corp.’s global subsidiaries.
Angelo Young
Feb 17, 2014
A birthday invitation, which went viral after a mother scorned gay fathers for raising a child together, turned out to be a hoax.
Maria Vultaggio
Feb 16, 2014
By adopting the international gold measurement standard, the Southeast Asian takes another step away from isolation.
Sophie Song
Feb 14, 2014
Refugees from Bhutan stuck in Nepal are learning how to fly, from the ground up, as part of the largest resettlement program in the world.
Kyle Knight
Feb 14, 2014
The man behind the Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual “liveability” report is the first to admit that “liveability” is a hard word to define.
Mark Johanson
Feb 14, 2014
Investors may be starved for direction this Friday as earnings and data points are thin on the ground.
Arjun Kashyap
Feb 14, 2014
Until two years ago, the U.S. had no unified marketing effort to promote inbound tourism. Now it does, and we’re starting to see the results.
Mark Johanson
Feb 13, 2014
Boeing continues to deliver it's C-17 Globemaster, but can production of the famous aircraft be saved?
Christopher Harress
Feb 13, 2014
An economics professor created a map that shows how U.S. states compare to countries around the world in terms of GDP.
Kathleen Caulderwood
Feb 13, 2014
Chinese credit and, to a lesser extent, equity markets would be very vulnerable during a hard landing.
Moran Zhang
Feb 13, 2014
Earnings from Wall Street heavyweights such as Pepsi and Kraft Foods, plus data on jobs and retail sales, should influence trading.
Arjun Kashyap
Feb 13, 2014
