People with a large numbers of moles on their skin may age slowly, a study suggests.

Scientific American recently published an interview with Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Latanya Sweeney regarding the trade-offs between security and privacy. Dr. Sweeney provides a refreshing counter-point to Sun Microsystems CEO, Scott McNealy’s ‘famous quip’, ‘Privacy is dead. Get over it.’

Listen to an iPod during a storm and you may get more than electrifying tunes.

A unique set of observations, obtained with ESO’s VLT, has allowed astronomers to find direct evidence for the material that surrounded a star before it exploded as a Type Ia supernova.

Britain’s biggest dog stands 6ft 5in tall on his hind legs and weighs more than 19 stone.

Taiwan’s College of Marine Sciences has staged its degree ceremony – underwater.

The Vatican has complained that a competition to elect the new seven wonders of the world has ignored all churches.

Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical and flavoured with fatty pork and powdered seasoning, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in one Beijing neighbourhood, state television said.

Bao Xishun, 56, a 2.36-metre (7 ft, 7 inches) herdsman listed by the Guinness World Records as the tallest living man, and his bride, Xia Shujuan, 29, 1.68 metres (5 ft., 5 inches), took part in an Erdos Wedding Ceremony at Genghis Khan’s Mausoleum, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on July 12, 2007.

A United Nations report coinciding with World Population Day reveals that for the first time in history, more people now live in cities than rural areas.

Scientists reported the first discovery of water in a planet outside of our Solar System.

Almost 217 million people worldwide visited online gaming Web sites in May 2007, according to comScore’s "World Metrix" report. That is up almost 17% from May 2006, and represents 28% of the total worldwide online population ages 15 and older.

Roboticists are using the lessons of a 1930s human physiologist to build the world’s fastest walking robot. RunBot is a self-learning, dynamic robot, which has been built around the theories of Nikolai Bernstein.