Dushanbe, Tajikistan (AHN) – In a country where most of the people are living below the poverty line, gold teeth is certainly a no-no among government personnel. Tajikistani president Emomali Rakhmonov is set to ban state employees from wearing gold teeth to improve his country’s image.

The Rocketbelt Convention, sponsored by Jet Pack International, LLC, brought together old and new as homemade rocketbelts from all over the country were displayed alongside the original Bell Aerosystems Rocketbelt, built in the 1960’s. Current and former rocketmen, rocketbelt builders, engineers and high tech inventors met together for a two day symposium, "Where the Past [...]

A bunch of Firefox devotees set out to generate more PR for Firefox. They decided to make a huge accurate Firefox logo in a crop field (designs like these are called "crop circles"). Some crop circle designs are obviously man made like this one, whereas others are not so easily explained and are a topic [...]

It’s getting to that point in the price/performance curve where battery-powered LED lighting fixtures are disposable and practical. A prime example is Sylvania Dot-it LEDs, stick-up lights that cost less than $10 and shine for over a hundred hours.

It looks like a speck of dust on the surface of the sun. But this spectacular picture shows the space shuttle Atlantis alongside the International Space Station silhouetted as they orbit the earth. Amazing photo.

This stupid homebuilder might want to rethink his line of work after building a house 20 feet higher than road. Check out these crazy photos.

Swiss scientists have found particles in a solid-state device can be turned into an unusual state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate.

U.S. researchers are working toward possibly enabling people some day to renew or replace damaged and missing body parts.

Researchers at Brookhaven National Lab in Upton, N.Y., report evidence linking the brain and stomach with emotions to cause overeating and obesity.

Suicide rates among the youngest and oldest Americans have steadily declined since the late 1980s, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday in a finding that contradicts popular conceptions that rates were rising.

The Zimbabwe government on Monday finally fingered the cause of the dramatic collapse of the country’s agricultural sector — a monkey.

Almost every wireless industry conference has its obligatory "carrier bashing" panel of mobile content start-ups and medium-sized companies complaining about how mobile carriers do not "get" content. With few exceptions, the parade of statistics, anecdotes and panelist opinion seem to pull on Star Wars imagery of plucky rebels taking on an entrenched empire.

England:  Garden flats are enjoying a renaissance on the property market, with demand outstripping that for other homes by as much as 54 per cent. Traditionally viewed as a bad investment because of poor security and lack of daylight, basement flats have previously been difficult to sell.

Men are just as likely to be compulsive shoppers as women, according to a new study. Previously, it was thought about 90 per cent of people with the condition – characterised by excessive binge- spending followed by deep regret – were women. But research from the United States suggests it is more common among men [...]

China:  After creating half the country’s wealth in 2005, private enterprises are poised for an even bigger role in the years ahead, a key government think-tank said yesterday in Beijing.

Popcap Games, creators of the wildly popular video game Bejeweled, has released a study which profiles casual game players. Casual games, which are graphically simple and do not require the large time commitment of online games like World of Warcraft, are by far the most popular game types in the US, with 29% of video [...]

U.S. researchers who simulated a terrorist attack on various physical components enabling internet connectivity in the United States have found that it would be very difficult to cause major disruptions.

Chinese scientists on Thursday successfully conducted their first test of an experimental thermonuclear fusion reactor, which replicates the energy generating process of the sun.

The numbers are by no means definitive, but the inferences to be drawn from last month’s Hitwise tracking figures have to have a lot of online marketers wondering, "What if…?"

A team of engineers from the University of British Columbia have developed a vehicle that has the ability to travel roughly 3,145 miles on a single gallon of gas – roughly the distance from Boston, MA to San Diego, CA.

Newspapers grappling with declining circulation and profit margins can turn themselves around if they quickly develop publications and affiliated websites packed with local information, according to an eagerly awaited industry report Wednesday.

The Cormorant Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) program has been established to examine the feasibility of a UAV that may be deployed from the sea without carrier support. The program will explore concepts that launch from both the sea surface and submarines. Amazing photo.

With a divorce rate currently of 45 percent many men and women are wondering “How do I choose a partner that will go the distance?” Do men really want subservient “slave-women” who subverts all her personal needs in order to please his? Yes … and no.

A controversial schooling method that focuses on personal development rather than exams produces more mature, creative and socially adept children, scientists have revealed.

Have you ever played "doctor" with your cellphone? Stripped down to its’ bare esentials (nude technology?) you get to see how they manage those deliciously slim cellphones that we see hanging around the market these days. LG and Philips LCD have worked together to create the slimmest cellphone screens in the world, with a thickness that [...]