A British explorer who was the first man to reach the North Pole solo announced plans on Tuesday to lead an expedition to measure the thickness of the Arctic ice caps.

Bats are the most vocal mammals other than humans, and understanding how they communicate during their nocturnal outings could lead to better treatments for human speech disorders, say researchers at Texas A&M University.

It’s one of the golden rules of the natural world – birds live in trees, fish live in water. Scientists have discovered that it spends several months of every year out of the water and living inside trees.

Neuroscientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a novel approach for measuring and deciphering brain activity that holds out promise of providing improved movements of natural or artificial limbs by those who have been injured or paralyzed.

Kazunari Saito, a 33 year-old electrician, was arrested for giving 21 year-old Sayaka Nishizawa sleeping pills and then suffocating her.

Gyotaku is the Japanese art of making fish prints on delicate rice paper. This artform reproduces the exact features and characteristics of actual, individual fish.

Sometimes a product comes along and bites you on the ass in such a way that you don’t know whether to laugh, cry, or take out a loan.

University of Memphis researchers say the use of water pipes, also known as hookahs, hubble-bubbles, narghiles, shishas, gozas or narkeelas, is increasing.

A bizarre breed of guinea pig that was created for laboratory testing more than 30 years ago has become the latest designer pet.

Mike Cote:
While Rockies fans at CB & Potts watched their heroes battle the
Padres, Thomas Frey of the DaVinci Institute held court in probably the
only room in the Westminster bar where patrons weren’t watching the
wild card tiebreaker game.
That dramatic Monday night happened
to be the scheduled time for the institute’s "Night with a Futurist"
series. Frey presented [...]