A shadow of doubt has been thrown over the widely held theory that dinosaurs had feathers and that they gave rise to modern birds.

L.A.’s august Pulitzer honoree says it was never about censorship.

Belly painting and henna "tattooing" is an artsy new way to celebrate a pregnancy and energize the unborn child. Here is an interesting collection.

Damien Hirst, the bad boy of British art, made this $99 million diamond-studded human skull (ok, ok, not real skull – it’s a cast of a skull)

A computerised instrument that allows people to play music with the tip of their nose could give people with physical disabilities, such as cerebral palsy, the chance to experience music’s positive effects.

Police found more than 8,000 pieces of women’s clothing and lingerie in the home of a Japanese man who stole the items so he could sleep buried in them.

It won’t take years of training, and your commitment to space travel can be over in 30 minutes or so, depending on how long the lines are.

It sounds like an environmentalist’s dream: a rural idyll that generates its electricity from nothing more polluting than sun, wind and hay. But that is exactly what the Spanish region of Navarre, on the border with France, hopes to achieve within a few years.

Tiny, isolated patches of superconductivity exist within these substances at higher temperatures than previously were known, according to a paper by Princeton scientists, who have developed new techniques to image superconducting behavior at the nanoscale. (w/pics)

A story published at Physorg.com discusses recently published research into the fabrication of solar cells that surpass the 40% efficiency milestone. Such devices would be the high water-mark to date, and hint at the possibility of even more effective technology.

A team of US researchers is using the super-adhesive properties of nanoglue to create a super-sticky web-shooting device much like the comic-book hero Spiderman’s.

The New York Times reports that the full genome of James D. Watson, one of the discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953, has been deciphered, marking what some scientists believe is the gateway to an impending era of personalized genomic medicine.

Unusual photos come with a variety of descriptions.  Our good friends at Malgusto have been scouring the earth and have harvested an amazing crop of images,  Here is this week’s top 10 list.