Washington State University and the University of Idaho and are teaming up with a brew pub to try a new teaching method: mixing beer and science.

Topless dancers in Alabama aren’t really topless.  Dancers are spraying themselves with skin-colored latex, and in doing so, redefining the legal limits of nakedness.

According to eMarketer’s estimates, an important milestone will be reached over the next 12 months — high-speed Internet penetration will surpass 50% of US households, equating to over 60 million residential broadband subscribers.

The Chicago Department of Transportation has kicked off a pilot program to test 550 feet of recycled rubber sidewalk over the next year, right across the street from the Chicago Center for Green Technology on the city’s West Side.

Obesity is so revered among Mauritania’s white Moor Arab population that the young girls are sometimes force-fed to obtain a weight the government has described as "life-threatening".

An artificial island is emerging from the waters of Ise Bay, near the geographical center of the country. It will soon be home to the Central Japan International Airport, featuring a runway 3,500 meters long.  Great photos.

China is the country with not only the largest population, but also the largest number of disabled people nearly 83 million, or about the entire population of Germany. Of that number, more than 12 million cannot physically see the country’s development with their own eyes. They are China’s visually impaired.