A CZECH man ate frogs and other small animals for four days after he was trapped on an island cut off by flooding, the daily Pravo reported today.

A skin patch to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children has won approval from drug regulators, the first to replace oral medications.

Inspired by the strange motion of the basilisk lizard, Carnegie Mellon University mechanical engineers have built a tiny robot that can sprint across land and water with equal dexterity.

Now here’s something that will make you glad you lived this long: It’s a pen-sized scanner that lets you scan the contents of pages from a book or magazine and store them for reading later.

Ants evolved far earlier than previously believed, as far back as
140 million to 168 million years ago — and they have plants to thank
for their diversity, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.

Parallels Inc. Wednesday released
a beta version of its first product, a virtual machine platform that
runs multiple operating systems concurrently.

The group of 12 graffiti artists surrounds its target, a sculpture in Manhattan known as The Cube,
and waits for the signal to begin tagging it up. It’s a daunting task
– the 15-foot sculpture in Astor Place was recently coated with
anti-graffiti paint.

A man is so sick of his mother-in-law he is selling her on eBay.

Sociologists have long known that communes and other cooperative groups usually collapse into bickering and disband if they do not have clear methods of punishing members who become selfish or exploitative. Now an experiment by a team of German economists has found one reason punishment is so important: Groups that allow it can be more […]