We are not always sure why people do the things they do, but here are a few unusual pictures designed to insult your intelligence.

Scientists have discovered a new way to make the brain repair itself after a stroke, it emerged yesterday, raising hopes that people left paralysed by the debilitating condition could have their mobility restored in the future.

U.S. and Canadian citizens are among the world’s most patriotic, but a study suggests they are proud of their nations for differing reasons.

The joint German-British Gravitational Wave Detector GEO600 has started an 18-month run of continuous measurement of gravitational waves.

Baby kangaroos are are so darn cute.  Amazing photos.

NBC will use the YouTube video-sharing site to promote its fall television lineup in a strategic partnership that further underscores the Internet’s growing role in generating buzz around traditional media shows.

It seems that the more active the searcher, the more likely they are to use online financial tools and applications. A recent study from Compete and Forrester Research found that nearly 20% of online mortgage applicants used search, compared with only 7% of prospects.

Obesity and other health conditions may help explain why women in New York City are more than twice as likely to die during childbirth.

According to the new eMarketer report, Local Online Advertising: Measuring the Potential, local online advertising remains more promise than fulfillment. With $1.3 billion in spending projected for 2006, only 7.9% of the total $16.7 billion in US Internet ad spending for the year, the sector still has plenty of room to grow.

Cell phone emissions excite the part of the brain cortex nearest to the phone, but it is not clear if these effects are harmful, Italian researchers reported on Monday.

Chastity can exact a painful price from young Muslim women, forced into lies or surgery to go to the marriage bed as virgins. Hymen repair, fake virginity certificates and other deceptions, said to be commonplace in some Muslim countries, are practiced in France and elsewhere in Europe, where Muslim girls are more emancipated but still […]

US Scientists claim to have developed a virtually undetectable radar system, which could have far reaching use in military, law enforcement and disaster management.

An "emotionally aware" computer system designed to read people’s minds by analysing expressions will be featured at a major London exhibition.

Tohoku University in Japan is recruiting "Science Angels"–female volunteer students from its graduate school–to primary, middle and high schools in Sendai to attract more females into science.

A recent study by sociologists at Duke University shows that Americans are growing lonelier and live more isolated lives.

Teaching girls in single-sex schools, long an obsession of many parents worried about their daughters being distracted by boys, makes no difference to their educational attainment according to one of the most comprehensive studies of the way children learn.

The concept of extra dimensions, that there are whole other regions of reality that we can’t perceive, has tantalized physicists for years. Although the math looks good (if you like that kind of thing), scientists want physical evidence they can measure.

Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey believes it will soon extend dramatically to 1,000. Here, he explains why.

A hidden world of sexual harassment, with female managers exploiting their power over men in the office, has been unveiled by a new British government survey.

Irish road bowling is more like golf than bowling, and involves rolling a cannonball down a winding country road.

The world’s second richest man - who’s now worth $44 billion - says he will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July - most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

British government shocked to realize that 100,000 AK-47s have been imported into the UK in the last year, seeing as how they’re illegal for civilians to use and the army doesn’t use them either.

Cyclists depend on clear hand signals to indicate their intention when stopping or turning at a busy road intersection. While the hand signals may be clearly visible during the day, a problem exits in drawing the attention of motorists in poor light conditions, such as at dusk or dawn.  This idea is a turn-indicating cycling […]

The U.S. population is on target to hit 300 million this fall and it’s a good bet the milestone baby — or immigrant — will be Hispanic.

The American Express Butterfly Card is a standard credit card that’s available to members of AMEX’s Gold Card members. What makes it so special is that it folds in half, letting you store it inside of a svelte, metallic case the size of a keychain.