UK champion Dan Harris travels to the spiritual home of Rubik's Cube to take on the fastest cubers on the planet at the world championships

  A new survey says working in an office may be hard on the waistlines of nearly half of U.S. workers.

  Yesterday Microsoft announced, on an official company blog, that it was making some improvements to Windows Live SkyDrive, its free file storage service. Google has a much more interesting announcement.

  An amateur paleontologist has uncovered petrified forests near the proposed Prehistoric Trackways National Monument in New Mexico's Robledos Mountains.

  The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, also called the "doomsday vault," is designed to protect millions of crop seeds from natural disasters, wars or even global warming. The foundation that operates the vault hopes that the remote location in arctic Norway, not far from the North Pole, will help ensure its survival.

  Inspired by the toe pads of tree frogs and crickets, researchers in India have created a form of sticky coating that is both strong and reusable.

  Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for fighting it.

  Skype has confirmed that it is working with British wireless carrier 3 to develop a handset that will allow users in Britain to make free calls on the Internet. The phone is expected to function as a normal cell phone but will also include a Skype function to contact other Skype customers.

  A new Pentagon study lays out the roadmap for a multibillion-dollar push to the final frontier of energy: a satellite system that collects gigawatts' worth of solar power and beams it down to Earth.

  The British Interplanetary Society is having a conference on 15 November 2007, 9:30 am-5:00 pm, titled "Warp Drive, Faster Than Light:Breaking the interstellar distance barrier" and is inviting attendees. Details below: