Yale students have pulled off one of the most audacious pranks on their Harvard counterparts in their 121 year rivalry.

W. Bruce Cameron: I was in San Francisco last week watching a TV special titled Now That You’re Here, Let’s Talk About Earthquakes!

According to the documentary, our continents are aimlessly drifting around the planet, sort of like my son when I ask him to do the dishes.

A thinktank of British scientists has come up with a new way of quickening the national intellect - a brain-taxing spin on the old formula of 100 things to do before you die.

Researchers at the University of Warwick’s Warwick Manufacturing Group, in conjunction with PVAXX Research & Development Ltd, have devised a novel way to recycle discarded mobile telephones - bury them and watch them transform into the flower of your choice.

The Seven Dwarves are threatening to strike at a Christmas market in Germany after Snow White was fired for posing naked.

Richard Watson: Theodore Zeldin will readily admit that most of his ideas will fail. But let’s face it, so will most of ours. Surely it’s better to go out in a blaze of glory as a beautiful failure than as an invisible and mediocre success.

Over 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci conceptualized a self-powered flying machine that would achieve both lift and thrust with flapping wings alone and named it the “ornithopter”.

Welcome to the Over the Hill Gang, design bugs that have been around so long that we’ve begun to think of them as folk heros. However, the usual requirement for turning a public enemy into a folk hero is death, not longevity, and so it should be for these worthies: Their executions are long overdue.

A woman who was given permission to have embryo screening treatment in a bid to save her son is carrying the UK’s first “designer baby”.

Using a patient’s own stem cells to rebuild feeble bladder-control muscles may provide lasting relief from the embarrassing and inconvenient symptoms of urinary incontinence, a new study reveals.

Brain scans show that the brains of people who are lying look very different from those of people who are telling the truth, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

German artists have unveiled a “Biedermeier”-style room made entirely of chocolate and marzipan, complete with panelling, vases, cutlery and pictures all fashioned from the confectionery.

Rich Karlgaard: Peter F. Drucker was born 95 years ago-can it be possible? Now confined to a walker and nearly deaf, Drucker stopped giving press interviews about a year ago. But in late October he granted an exception to FORBES.

For the first time ever, Emory University researchers have broken through the so-called “oxo-wall” to create stable multiple chemical bonds between oxygen and platinum – once thought impossible because oxygen is extremely unstable when combined with certain metals.

A testosterone patch touted as a treatment for women with low sex drive has attracted criticism in a leading medical journal after being granted a fast-track review by the US Food and Drug Administration.

Once the preserve of science fiction, biometric facial recognition has now become a reality.
Despite its association with the controversy of identity cards, it is predicted to become part of everyday life.

Researchers at a government nuclear laboratory and a ceramics company in Salt Lake City say they have found a way to produce pure hydrogen with far less energy than other methods.

A Wall Street worker is suing American Express for £1.2million for “letting” her spend £600,000.

A student has invented disposable shoes for high-heeled clubbers.

Lawrence Lessig: Michael Powell completes his fourth year as chair of the FCC in December, and his tenure has not been a quiet one. He oversaw one of the most ferocious public policy battles in FCC history - the fight over media concentration - and he did not hesitate to run the indecency flag […]

Like a lot of frequent travelers, Kevin Pollard relies on the internet to save money on airfares, hotel rooms and rental cars. The quest generally took him to the web’s most popular travel sites — Orbitz, Travelocity and Expedia — until he discovered a new breed of specialty search engines that promise to dig up […]

If you have a difficult-to-buy for Ph.D. or science club president (nerd alert!) on your gift list this holiday season, don’t settle for socks or underwear because you figure everyone needs them. Sure we do, but they rank about a one out of 10 on the fun-to-get-as-a-present-o-meter.

Online phishing schemes more than doubled last month, leaving financial institutions struggling to rebuff attempts to steal private account information from customers, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group.

Ever get the desire to kill an innocent creature for no reason at all? Neither do we (ahem), but the crew at Subsoap have released a game that is sure to bring out the Peter Kürten in us all.

A German computer scientist has broken the world record in mental calculation, needing just 11.80 seconds to work out the 13th root of a 100-digit number, a German mathematics museum said Wednesday.