Bidders, at least one them costumed, paid top dollar for Star Trek items on Thursday at the start of Christie’s auction of memorabilia from the seminal television and movie franchise.

Space Yogurt from Himawari Dairy is now available in Japan. Himawari Dairy, a Kochi-area dairy manufacturer, reserved a seat aboard a Soyuz rocket that took off from Baikonur Cosmodrome this spring. The "passengers" were two strains of bacteria: lactic acid bacteria used in ordinary yogurt and a unique strain of Lactobacillus paracasei cultured from pickles […]

The reasons for not engaging in sex include transmission of diseases, heart attack due to exertion, and many others. The reasons for engaging in sex are numerous. Among these are:

For some, it would be unthinkable — certain social suicide. But Gabe Henderson is finding freedom in a recent decision: He canceled his MySpace account. No longer enthralled with the world of social networking, the 26-year-old graduate student pulled the plug after realizing that a lot of the online friends he accumulated were really just […]

Research by the Dunedin multidisciplinary health and development study shows children who are spanked lightly with an open hand on the bottom, hand or leg do much the same in later life as those who are not spanked, The New Zealand Herald reported today.

Consideration is being given to dropping the notion of limbo, where souls of babies who die before baptism remain, from the body of Catholic belief.