An extraordinarily complete skull of a 30-million-year-old human ancestor once held a brain about the size of a lime, according to a new study.

Women in Myanmar not only have to watch out for pickpockets when they’re commuting, shopping or walking down the street, but also hair thieves, a weekly journal reported Sunday.

South Korea’s LG Philips LCD said Sunday it had developed the world’s first A4-sized colour electronic-paper — a paper-thin and bendable viewing panel.

Imagine being able to rapidly identify tiny biological molecules such as DNA and toxins using less than a drop of salt water in a system that can fit on a microchip.

Jin Guangying, a 77-year-old Chinese grandmother who went to hospital with a headache was found to have had a bullet in her head for 64 years.

A new blue-and-green- throated hummingbird species has been discovered in a cloud forest in Colombia, and already needs protection from human encroachment, the experts who found the bird said on Sunday.

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, discovered asphalt-munching bacteria trapped in the La Brea Tar Pit some 28,000 years ago.

A racecar you could drive to the grocery store….if it had a trunk.

The world’s largest floating bookshop, housed on a 93-year-old vessel, opened to the public Saturday at Hakata port in the city of Fukuoka, boasting about 500,000 books and 350 volunteers from more than 50 countries.

The J&K Canine Academy has been training termite-sniffing dogs, usually Brace beagles, for three years in cooperation with UF entomologists. Now the school has begun training dogs to detect a resurgent population of bedbugs.

John Deere makes some of the toughest, heaviest equipment on earth.  It is designed to function in the toughest environments for long periods of time.  But no equipment is tornado-proof.  Here are some amazing photos from the John Deere dealership in Greensburg, Kansas after the tornado hit.