Tires and brimstone: the most hellacious automotive sins.

A new imaging technique developed at MIT has allowed scientists to create the first 3D images of a living cell, using a method similar to the X-ray CT scans doctors use to see inside the body.

Yone Minagawa, recognized by Britain’s Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest person at the age of 114, died on Monday evening, Kyodo news agency reported informed sources as saying.

Children in Europe are aware of the risks of illegal downloading, but often rationalize their act by saying that everyone — including their parents — is doing it, according to a major European Commission survey.

It wasn’t built to watch the playoffs. And you can’t tune it to HBO. Yet students and professors at UC Irvine say they’ve spent some scintillating days looking at the human brain, cancer cells and weather maps.

A man is attempting to set a world record for the number of live Elvis Presley tribute performances achieved by one person in a single day.

A man spotted wearing a T-shirt bearing an "offensive" slogan in a city centre has been warned he risks an £80 fine if he is caught again.

Everyone knows men are promiscuous by nature. It’s part of the genetic strategy that evolved to help men spread their genes far and wide. The strategy is different for a woman, who has to go through so much just to have a baby and then nurture it. She is genetically programmed to want just one [...]

Can this poisonous weed be the biofuel that save us all?

Chillout, its owners say, is the Middle East’s first ice lounge — the latest venture in this desert Gulf emirate, which has been transformed by a mania for the biggest, first or most outlandish.

A retired French army colonel is aiming to take a stratospheric leap into the record books by completing a 1000mph (1,600km/h) skydive from the edge of space in Canada next month.

Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the UK Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service analysed six common sleeping positions – and found that each is linked to a particular personality type.