Ealing Council in London is set to use secret CCTV cameras hidden in baked beans tins and inside house bricks to catch residents putting rubbish out on the wrong day.

A group of Chinese reporters came up with a novel idea to test how greedy local hospitals were — pass off tea as urine samples and submit the drink for tests. That’s when things got interesting…

Australian scientist Janusz Nowotny, one of the world’s leading researchers on the process of using titanium dioxide as a catalyst to split water, has developed a system to harness the power of the sun to split seawater into oxygen and hydrogen gas.

An online game operator has demanded that banned players donate blood to be allowed back into the game. Moliyo, which runs a 3D massively multiplayer online game in China, made the demand after banning 120,000 players who attempted to hack the game.

Psychologists are suggesting that girls who "self-objectify" suffer from a diminished ability in mental activities such as schoolwork and logical reasoning.

Most people (90%) say that they are not at all interested in getting ads on their mobile phones, according to Harris Interactive. In theory, that leaves less than 10% of users as an audience for mobile marketing, and we’re not so sure about that 10%.

The New Seven Wonders of the World is a proposed revision of the Seven Wonders of the World, organized by a Swiss-based, for-profit corporation called New Open World Corporation (NOWC). The selection is being made by free and paid votes, through telephone or online. The first vote is free to registered members and additional votes [...]