Some of the world’s greatest accomplishments somehow come out looking like something went wrong.

Internet display advertising grew 17.7% to $5.52 billion during the second quarter of 2007, according to TNS Media Intelligence.

Taste is, in large part, to do with the evolutionary origin of an animal. So, birds all taste like chicken, and so does crocodile, since dinosaurs were the ancestors of birds too. But why do tarantulas taste like chicken? And is fugu worth the risk?

A law enforcement operation known as Operation Green Apple has ended with the seizure of 634 pounds of marijuana that was coming in from Mexico and headed for Cleveland’s streets.

Rice University scientists have captured the first optical images of carbon nanotubes inside a living organism. Using fruit flies, the researchers confirmed that a technique developed at Rice — near-infrared fluorescent imaging — was capable of detecting DNA-sized nanotubes inside living fruit flies.

Forget knitting, bridge and bingo. Residents at the Amity nursing home in Greenacre are hooked on a new pastime: Nintendo Wii.

If you want to move up at work, but you’re going nowhere while watching co-workers climb the corporate ladder, it’s time to take a hard look at what you might be doing wrong.

A University of Alberta researcher found that children with language impairments fare very poorly when trying to recall story details.

Chivalry is not dead. It’s just been keeping its head down for a bit. And who can blame it when the line between courtliness and condescension has become so blurred?

The moon of Wednesday, Sept. 26 also carries the title of the Harvest Moon for those living in the Northern Hemisphere.

A startup has come up with a new way to make money from phone calls connected via the Internet: having software listen to the calls, then displaying ads on the callers’ computer screens based on what’s being talked about.