A San Francisco artist has spent the past 39 years perfecting the art of toothpick modeling, a genre we can safely say he now has the authority on. Steven Backman took up the unusual hobby at just ...

The plain wooden toothpick is among the sim­plest of manufactured things. It consists of a single part, made of a single material, and is intended for a single purpose, from which it takes its name.

A new case study in the New England Journal of Medicine looks at the dangers. Before you bite into that sandwich, take a closer look. Toothpicks have been known to injure thousands more people every ...

A simple search on Apple's forums shows a common trend: a lot of iPhone and iPad owners are having problems charging their device. Two of my colleagues have also run into this problem. There's a ...

When a woman who had been feeling progressively weaker for months visited an emergency room with nausea, vomiting and low blood pressure, doctors diagnosed her as having an abdominal infection and ...