PhysOrg.com: A new study concludes that unhappy people watch more TV, while people who describe themselves as very happy spend more time reading and socializing.

Two papers appearing in today's issue of Science Express detail results that have been years in the making: the first direct observations of planets orbiting distant stars.

PhysOrg.com: -- Now that a pivotal advertising partnership with Google is off the table, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is ready return to the bargaining table with Microsoft if the world's largest software maker remains interested in buying his embattled Inte

Japanese telecommunications company NTT claims that it is developing shoes that generate electricity upon movement.

BBC director general Mark Thompson has admitted that the broadcaster has to tackle Islam differently to Christianity and is reluctant to broadcast jokes about it.