Many cultures talk with their hands, but the Australian performer Stelios Arcadiou claims he could soon be listening with his arm. Arcadiou, a philosopher and performance artist known as Stelarc, said a surgeon had implanted a cell-cultivated ear in his arm.

With over 400 12 gauge shotgun shells, this chair truly comes Fully Loaded.

PRINTED boarding passes could become obsolete after airlines agreed on an industry standard that will allow travellers to check in using a barcode sent to their mobile phones.

Fire Prevention week, commemorating the 1871 Great Chicago Fire. The myth that the blaze started with a cow kicking over a lantern has been thoroughly debunked, but feel free to eat steak in revenge anyway. Then do this stuff:

Venus, not Mars, may have been the most likely planet in the solar system to have also developed life, scientists say.

As the old Chinese saying goes,"Kindness often meets with good recompense."

The software maker would have preferred to hold off on notifying the public of the flaws in Acrobat and Reader until the updated software was ready, said John Landwehr, Adobe’s director of security solutions and strategy.

Lipsticks tested by a U.S. consumer rights group found that more than half contained lead and some popular brands including Cover Girl, L’Oreal and Christian Dior had more lead than others, the group said on Thursday.

Think "flying saucer" and UFOs or 1950s B movies come to mind (see "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" or "The Day the Earth Stood Still"). But now researchers have built an unmanned aerial vehicle that looks and acts like the imagined thing.

Eastman Kodak Co said on Friday it will end its long-standing sponsorship of the Olympics after the 2008 Beijing Games, severing a marketing relationship that spans more than a century.

The daily weather forecast on Saturn’s largest moon Titan appears to be a steady drizzle of liquid methane, at least around the bright, exotically named region known as Xanadu, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

South African scientists announced a major breakthrough on Thursday in the fight against a highly deadly strain of drug resistant tuberculosis, sequencing the genome in a week.

Funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen the finished array will have 350 6m antennas and will be one of the world’s largest.

An asteroid is on a collision course with the earth and you have one hour left to live. What would you do in your last 60 minutes?