The U.S.? Nope–Canada, at least according to documentary filmmakers whose work isn’t deemed “Canadian” enough.

A U.S.-Japanese team has developed a gene therapy technique that promotes the regrowth of hair cells in the inner ears of guinea pigs. This is the first time anyone has biologically repaired the hearing of animals. (Insert standard disclaimer here stating that what works in animals doesn’t always work in humans.)

NASA’s Cassini and Spitzer Space Telescope missions have a Valentine’s Day card for you in the form of a ring and a flower.

UCLA scientists have successfully transformedHIV into a non-AIDS-causing cancer-fighting missile–in, of course, mice, who by this point shouldn’t have a thing to worry about if they come down with cancer…

…but maybe not as much as I should have, thanks to my parents failure to play rhythmically challenging music for me when I was a child. It’s their fault I’m such a lousy golfer, too.

No, that’s not some really disgusting high school cafeteria recipe–it’s this biotech chip that allows for rapid screening of potential drugs to weed out the ones that could prove toxic.

Wouldn’t it be nice if the doctor could poke and prod a computer simulation of you instead of the real thing–and only do something to you once he had everything figured out?

People overcommit because they always expect to have more time in the future than they do right now, researchers say. Ain’t it the truth?

Using computer analysis, Smithsonian researchers have determined that the Hope Diamond was cut from the French Blue, a 69-carat diamond that belonged to King Louis XIV of France and was itself part of a 115-carat stone found in India in 1668. The French Blue was stolen during the French Revolution, and the Hope Diamond first …

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This speaks for itself, I think: “Eric Bressler, a graduate student at McMaster University who is studying the role of humour in personal attraction, discovered in a survey of 150 students that to a woman, ‘sense of humour’ means someone who makes her laugh; to a man, a sense of humour means someone who appreciates …

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A cordon-bleu chef at the Moto restaurant in Chicago has modified an ink-jet printer to create dishes made of edible paper that can taste like anything, from birthday cake to sushi.

There are lots of great panoramas on display here, but for me the most moving are those of the Apollo landing sites. Just 20 years to get there, if I’m going to fufill my childhood dream of retiring on the moon… Although, actually, I’m beginning to think Mars might be better.