Wake up and smell the pencil lead, says Japanese stationery and writing instrument manufacturer Pentel, who has combined the power of nanotechnology with the knowledge of expert aromatherapists to develop a new type of fragrant pencil lead. Featuring a long-lasting aroma designed to enhance mental capacity, the pencil lead — called “Ain supplio” — recently [...]

Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety.

A woman who hates spiders is crediting them with helping save her from a house fire. Danielle Vigue, 18, says she awoke early Tuesday to find spiders in her room, and started killing them. When more showed up, she says she went across the hall and got into bed with her 15-year-old sister, Lauren.

The old-fashioned jigsaw is back. But the traditional board game has been dragged into the 21st century and now a sense of self-satisfaction isn’t the only thing to play for – a $1million (£490,000) prize is up for grabs.

Daniel Whelan and his son Andrew were spending their Saturday as usual, walking around Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, with their metal detector, when the device’s beep led to an incredible discovery. The two had stumbled upon a hoard of Viking treasure dating back to the 10th century.

Vitamin C supplements are practically useless in a bid to avert colds, researchers concluded in analysis published on Wednesday.

Take the gecko, famed for its ability to scale walls, and the mussel, renowned for its clamping quality, and you have the inspirations for a superglue that can stick, unstick and stick again.

It looked like a textbook training exercise, but there was something amiss.

The bike riders were feeling the breeze on their knees — and everywhere else.

Scientists have linked certain genes to restless legs syndrome, suggesting the twitching condition described as "jimmy legs" in a "Seinfeld" episode is biologically based and not an imaginary disorder.