Steve Deerwood had 2,507 22-gauge (1.5 inch long) surgical needles inserted into his body by Jeremy VanWert in 6 hours and 15 minutes at Body Matrix of Bemidji, MN, USA on May 1, 2005. The previous record, verified by Guinness World Records TM, was for 745 needles.

GM today unveiled a Saab concept vehicle that runs on ethanol and battery power.

In a garage in Los Altos, California,
in 1976, two young college dropouts and some friends assembled and
soldered 500 motherboards by hand to be sold by a local hobbyist
electronics shop.

The pattern of brain growth during development
may figure more importantly than overall brain size when it comes to
intelligence, according to a new study.

German prostitutes are signing up for a career change, training to
become nurses to tend to the country’s aging population or working
phones as tele-marketers.

Scientists have identified and blocked the action of a protein
linked to the spread of breast, prostate and skin cancer cells to the
bones.

Many of you can breath easier now.  This one comes from the #1 name in flatulence odor control products.

Research is now showing that advertisers do not trust television commercials alone to do the job anymore. Great stats.

Austrian ski champion Harry Egger is hoping a space age suit will enable him to become the world’s fastest man on skis.

Americans are nearly as worried about their country’s dependence on foreign energy sources as they are about the war in Iraq, a poll released by the magazine Foreign Affairs showed on Thursday.

Half the population are in a permanent state of jet-lag because their body clocks are so out of synch with the demands of modern life, sleep researchers claim.

Johns Hopkins University researchers say they have used mouse mutants to define critical steps involved in learning basic motor skills.

A Wheeling Jesuit University student study suggests playing sports and fighting video games produces a dramatic level of pain distraction.

University of Illinois researchers have reported the first documented case of an amphibian communicating ultrasonically, as do bats, whales and dolphins.

Britain and France have experienced long periods of conflict and rivalry, but now victory in one area can be claimed: British people are more intelligent on average than the French.