Adelaide-born astronaut Andy Thomas is pushing a $150 million project to turn the Woomera rocket range into an international spaceport for tourists.

Archeologists have discovered a huge 1,500-year-old pre-Hispanic pyramid in a working class district of Mexico City after digging into a hill used every year to depict the crucifixion of Christ.

A brightly plumaged parrot and a long-tailed forest mouse unique to the Philippines have been discovered in the vanishing rainforest of a tiny tropical island, U.S.-based researchers said on Thursday.

This is a very cool idea from the mind of Swiss designer Kurt Thut.

Honda has recently released a car traffic data system using Google Earth to present traffic status. According to newlaunches.com, the tool allows the company’s "InterNavi Premium Club" members to see traffic data overlayed on Google Earth.

The major telecoms companies used to have the $190 billion US fixed-line telephony market all to themselves. However, the market is now up for grabs and cable companies, ISPs, Internet portals and pure-play VoIP providers all want a share.  Great stats.

Doctors believe a man who claims to have taken 40,000 ecstasy pills during his lifetime is the biggest recorded user of the drug, it emerged today.

Paleontologists have discovered the fossil remains of a
375-million-year-old fish that fills a crucial gap in the evolutionary
history of Earth’s four-limbed creatures.

Henry Ford was 50 years old, and not all that different from a lot of
other successful businessmen, when he summoned the Detroit press corps
to his company’s offices on Jan. 5, 1914. What he did that day made him
a household name.

Is your teenage daughter a couch potato?

So here I am in a cloudy and rainy
San Diego, visiting Storage Networking World. This is a show for big
data center types.

Seth Godin:  I was looking through a day by day biography of the group last night, and it quickly became clear that the image that we have of the four youngsters running away from their screaming fans didn’t happen overnight.

Older mothers have smarter babies, according to a British study.

Nordic European countries, which have attracted a reputation for their chilliness and reserve, have more sex therapists than their warmer more southerly neighbors, according to a new survey.

A Chinese man tried to sell his soul on China’s top internet auction site causing lengthy discussions on whether the auction should be allowed to proceed.