U.S. geologists, for the first time, have extracted intact rock samples from 2 miles beneath the surface of the San Andreas Fault

KATHMANDU - Cancer survivors will organize a musical concert on Mount Everest this month hoping the world’s highest ever musical gig will raise awareness about the disease.

All domestic cats are descended from at least five common ancestors from the Near East, Oxford University scientists and their collaborators have discovered. The new research, published recently in Science, also suggests that the domestic cat’s ancestors diverged from the ancestors of other populations of today’s wildcats around 130,000 years ago, far earlier than previously […]

A UK band called Batch Totem has released a 74-minute album compressed down to fit on a 1.4MB, 3.5" floppy disk. Who need vinyl nostalgia?

A Britain-based palaeontologist believes he has found the world’s first known Tyrannosaurus rex footprint.

A Cambodian cow was taken into police custody for causing traffic accidents that resulted in the deaths of at least six people this year.

With steely arms sprouting cables and wires, the WAO-1 robot looks nothing like a relaxation device. But researchers at Tokyo’s Waseda University hope the contraption will soon be deployed to hospitals and spas across Japan to give therapeutic facial massages.

Walking is better than running or sex, say many. But, if researchers are to be believed, of all the exercise regimes, jogging is the fastest and the simplest way to fitness and good health.

If you think sexy women means big boobs or round buttocks, you are wrong. Size has nothing to do with beauty but symmetry does.

A couple of Chinese guys spent $8,000 on building a Transformer out of a Citroen. Weighing in at 1,322 pounds, there are some cool pics after the jump.

Consumers born between 1946 and 1964 are more likely than the overall adult population to vote, play the lottery or remodel their homes, according to Mediamark Research Inc.’s "BoomerView" study.

Consumers who are passionate about their interests spend a lot of time online keeping up to date, according to Yahoo! and MediaVest’s “Passionistas: The New Empowered Consumers” study. These consumers spend six minutes online for every one minute spent with the same content by most Internet users. The Yahoo!-MediaVest study also found that such consumers […]