China is considering setting up a post office in Antarctica after several trial deliveries to the world’s southernmost continent.

W Bruce Cameron:
Every once in a while I leave open the kitchen-cabinet door that accesses the trash can, which my dog interprets to mean, “Please help yourself to the buffet!”

The makers of the handy spray lubricant WD-40 proudly list 2,000 uses for their product, from unsticking rusty screws or squeaky bicycle chains to polishing frying pans.

Microscopic imaging techniques have enabled scientists to delve deep into the brain of a living animal to see how visual circuitry works.

Computer scientist, and self-taught biologist, Aubrey de Grey, thinks immortality could be within our grasp by 2030. Thinking like an engineer, he’s broken aging down into seven specific problems, like cell atrophy and mitochondrial mutation, which he believes can all, in principle, be solved.