After tying the knot on a Lake Michigan beach on Aug. 18, they released a bottle containing their wedding vows. A few weeks later, the bottle was found by Fred and Lynnette Dubendorf, of Mears, Mich., who were also married on a beach — exactly 28 years before Kloska and Behrs.

Scientists at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Zoo have embarked on a project aimed at saving microscopic threatened species.

A man who stored his severed leg in a barbecue smoker that was later auctioned off is locked in a custody dispute with the man who found it.

Is there life on Mars? Who knows, but if the US House of Representatives gets its way, no human will be making the trip to find out. Its proposed yearly budget for NASA contains a provision banning the funding of anything related to the human exploration of Mars.

Israeli archaeologists said on Sunday they had discovered parts of an ancient drainage tunnel in Jerusalem that Jews had used to flee from the Holy City’s Roman conquerors 2000 years ago.

Teenagers who feel relaxed after their first drags on a cigarette are most likely to become addicted to smoking, a sign that some people’s brains are more susceptible to nicotine, researchers said on Monday.

Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass insisted on Tuesday that Tutankhamen was not black despite calls by US black activists to recognise the boy king’s dark skin colour.

Cambodian police have put a $250 bounty on the heads of several monkeys who have been terrorising tourists at a key temple in the capital and destroying nearby residents’ laundry, officials said on Friday.

Mr. Han, from Zhoukou city in China, was worried about his 10-month-old daughters health. She was diagnosed with Pneumonia but was not recovering.

Harvard physicists have shown that specially treated diamond coatings can keep water frozen at body temperature, a finding that may have applications in future medical implants.

An article at Anthropology.net summarizes an alarming trend of the extinction of languages, particularly in Northern Australia, Central South America, North America’s upper Pacific coastal zone, Eastern Siberia, and Oklahoma and the southwestern US.

The software developer has acquired the online word processor Buzzword, which allows users to create and share text documents on the web.

The Johns Hopkins University experts found that under-fives who watched over two hours a day increased their risk. However, young children who watched too much, but cut back by five years old, removed the risk, the study in the journal Pediatrics suggested.