Beijing’s overall air quality improved during the four-day test period ahead of next August’s Olympic Games in which more than a million cars each day were barred from the roads, according to the Beijing Environment Protection Monitoring Center.

Crows, already known for adapting objects as tools, have even more impressive brains than previously believed, displaying a type of intelligence crucial to human evolution.

Somebody went to a lot of trouble to hand-make these Farty Pants, and the story behind this sewing mastery is a mystery.

Clemson University chemists have developed a method to dramatically improve the longevity of fluorescent nanoparticles that may someday help researchers track the motion of a single molecule as it travels through a living cell.

Chinese joint ventures with global corporations such as Pepsi-Cola, Samsung, 3M and GM are among 100 multinational companies on an updated blacklist of water polluters, according to a non-governmental organization.

A seven-year-old boy has been left traumatised after being stopped as a possible terror suspect THREE times by airport staff.

A one-legged Emirati father of 78 (the eldest of whom is 36 years old and the youngest of whom is 20 days old) is lining up his next two wives in a bid to reach his target of 100 children by 2015.

Do not think of Brad Hutchins’s new store, the Kilted Nation, as a novelty shop, but rather as a vision of America without pants.

Nearly all US students who go online use social networking technologies such as chatting, text messaging and blogging and visit Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace, according to the National School Boards Association’s "Creating & Connecting: Research and Guidelines on Online Social and Educational Networking" report conducted by Grunwald Associates.

Tired of the car you’re driving?  Well here are some that are guaranteed to come with a whole different personality.  Amazing pics.