Billionaire spends millions mapping mouse brains
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So you're a billionaire and you've   bought a couple of sports teams, launched an amateur space   project and spent $800 million on good causes -- what do you do   with the change?
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Over three decades, Bob Klein amassed a fortune by building and financing low-income housing. After his 14-year-old son was diagnosed with diabetes in 2001, however, he redirected his considerable political clout and business savvy. The longtime Democrat has since become one of the biggest private patrons of human embryonic stem cell research &#151; medical technology that many scientists believe can someday cure a wide range of ailments, including diabetes.
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Steve Schwarzman reveals his keys to getting rich.
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Scientists have mapped a key network of switches in the brain which could aid research into neurological conditions.
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An ingenious hacker finds a new application for Apple's remarkable Sudden Motion Sensor: World's biggest and most expensive Roomba remote control. In Cult of Mac.
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Manchester scientists pinpoint a part of the brain they think plays a major role in understanding concepts.
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Bill Gates, the world s richest person with a net worth of $46.6 billion, is betting against the U.S. dollar.
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A close-up view of the human genome reveals its innermost workings to be far more complex than first thought.
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Scientists have uncovered clues about how the brain imitates the actions of others.
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Catapulted to geek stardom literally overnight at this high tech confab in 2006, inventor of mind-blowing touchscreen technology gives Wired News a glimpse into life as an entrepreneur and his new company, Perceptive Pixel. Kim Zetter reports from Monterey.
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BOSTON- Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have compiled the first atlas showing the locations of crucial gene regulators, or switches that determine how different parts of the brain develop - and, in some cases, develop abnormally or
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A Wall Street Journal reporter tracks the lives of the absurdly wealthy.
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Why one effort to collect genetic data is looking for celebrities and billionaires.
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How the world of online gaming spawned a multimillion-dollar shadow economy.
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Millionaire businessman's cash goes to academies.
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Research and investment into  brain-related illnesses is growing at an unprecedented rate as  scientific advances coincide with the demands of an aging  baby-boom population determined to beat the odds.
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Scientists in the United States have genetically engineered mice which can run twice as far as normal before becoming exhausted. The researchers say their finding could lead to drugs or gene