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A specially designed shrinking space suit could soon help astronauts get suited and booted in record time.
It’s Black Friday here in the U.S., the worst shopping day of the year. Do yourself a favor and check out an alternate reality: the Rev. Billy’s Church of Life […]
If we take another look at the space/time spectrum could we come up with a theory of quantum gravity?
The CIA’s “Magic Manual”, a book on trickery and misdirection written by magician John Mulholland, has magically reappeared.
A German banker has been hailed as “Die Robin Hood Bankerin” after she transferred money from rich accounts to help the poor.
Why do people resist going to the doctor? A writer recently diagnosed with cancer explores an ingrained reluctance to self preserve.
The sun will set on the Oprah Winfrey Show – one of America’s most popular TV shows – in September 2011 after two decades on the airwaves.
A dancer with epilepsy has stopped taking her medication and is hoping to have a seizure on stage to raise awareness about “an invisible disability.”
Permission to use embryonic stem cells has been requested by scientists developing a cure for blindness.
Harvard is the latest US University to take up the fictional wizard-sport Quidditch which features in the Harry Potter books.
Last night a fireball lit up parts of the Utah sky– and the phenomenon, which saw the dead of night as bright as day, was captured on CCTV.
A letter written by former US president Abraham Lincoln to a schoolboy around 150 years ago is to go on sale.
Research on chimpanzees suggests that human language has its roots in the gestural hand communications of our primate ancestors.
The BBC talks to a man who spent 14-years on death row before new evidence led to his release from jail.
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is encouraging Cuban scientists to “bomb clouds” with aircraft in order to stimulate rainfall during sever droughts.
Staff at a New Zealand aquarium were astonished to find baby sharks spilling from a wound in a female school shark’s stomach after she was bitten by another shark.rn
The use of shamans, spiritual priests said to have a direct link to dead spirits, is making a comeback in Mongolia.
An artist has been recreating masterpieces using rubik’s cubes instead of paint.
A man reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his family and friends by turning up to his own funeral.
Chinese meteorologists have successfully induced artificial snow to fall in Beijing after chemically seeding clouds to combat lingering drought.
The bizarre mating rituals of sea horses are fascinating – and they are the only species in which the male becomes pregnant.
An artist with autism has drawn an 18-foot picture of New York from memory after a 20-minute flight over the city.
New research reveals that birds use light rather than magnetic fields to aide their migration.
A gigantic explosion on the edge of the universe has given scientists an insight into the “cosmic dark ages” of 13.7bn years ago.
A new book “The Lexicographer’s Dilemma” discusses the rage bad grammar can cause and calls on staunch advocates to chill out.
Scientists have discovered a new species of butterfly which has ears on its wings.
Are the seven seconds it takes to complete the average Grand Prix pit stop the longest seconds in sport?
A leader of Bosnia’s dwindling Jewish community has published a book celebrating the many Serbs, Croats and Muslims who helped Bosnian Jews during the holocaust.
Scientists have discovered the world’s largest species of the giant golden orb-weaver spider.