This photo provided by the International Bird Rescue Research Center, shows an X-ray taken Sunday, May 21, 2006, of an injured duck with a broken wing and what appears to be the face, or head, of an extraterrestrial alien in the bird’s stomach.

Belgium unveiled plans on Wednesday to build the first eco-friendly scientific base in Antarctica, as part of an internationally-organized year of polar activity.

If you can’t be without your TV for even a few minutes, the Seura Television Mirror gives you an LCD HDTV display magically hiding behind a bathroom mirror.

A team of Iowa State University scientists has used ultrasonic pre-treatment of corn to increase the release rates of sugars by nearly 30 percent.

A U.S. scientist is working on technology designed to reduce the number of soldiers killed or injured in Iraq by improvised explosive devices.

It may sound like science fiction, but the prospect that suicide bombers and hijackers could be made redundant by flying robots is a real one, according to experts.

Fashion changes faster than ever today — but what if you could change your style at the speed of light? That’s what MIT researchers envision if they can link clothing design to the Internet.

Vending machines in the US are increasing their product ranges, and in three to five years, are predicted to follow Japan in offering a wide variety of products at vending machines. Great photos.

Japan’s fertility rate — the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime — fell to an all-time low of 1.25 in 2005, the health ministry said on Thursday, the latest sign of the threat to the world’s second-biggest economy from an aging, shrinking population.

This is very cool!  Liquid crystal molecules are dispersed between two panels of plastic. The curtain is opaque when turned off and becomes translucent when the power is turned on.

If you are a suburban swinger, the type of person who likes to strip off and have indiscriminate group sex just like the Romans used to, Alastair Blanshard of the University of Sydney has some bad news.

To spite all the recent talk about DaVinci’s Code and his possible involvement with the Holy Grail, few would argue Leonardo DaVinci’s qualities of genius.  To those ends, what did he take part in that might have added to his genius?  Was he born a genius?  Or were there things he did that tapped into […]

On the night of November 2nd, 1948, Harry Truman went to bed convinced he would lose the election for President of the United States to Thomas Dewey. Virtually every opinion poll in the country had predicted Dewey would win in a landslide and newspaper headlines from coast to coast proclaimed a Republican victory. But they were […]