Just about EVERYONE knows the song Frère Jacques (Brother John).

This Sunday, Jeanne Robinson, co-author of the Hugo-award winning novel Stardance, will perform the first piece of zero-gravity choreography onboard a "vomit-comet" free-fall jet, and the result will be filmed for Imax.

Hospitals are being urged not to decorate children’s wards with paintings of clowns in case they upset young patients.
State-funded research has found that in a survey of more than 250 children aged four to 16, all disliked the use of clowns in hospital decor, with even the teenagers seeing them as "scary".

Katafanga Island in the South Pacific paradise of Fiji is available.

The people at DARPA, the Pentagon’s research arm, are hard at work on a new nasal spray that could make sleep obsolete. It’s called Orexin A, and just a couple snorts of it could allow you to be awake and alert for tens and tens of hours straight with no negative side effects.

President Bush and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton again top Gallup’s annual list of "most admired" men and women, the polling firm said Wednesday.

A North Dakota farmer can forecast a major snowstorms or other intense weather by checking his pig spleens instead of radar or other high-tech equipment.

A special "ugliness" contest has attracted both participants and controversy in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China.

The Mint today previewed the 2008 coins, which will feature James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren.

If you are a male and lack the ability to attract females, then simply get a happy-looking woman to accompany you, for a new study has found that men in the company of smiling women are likely to catch the fancy of other females.

This is the overall ranking for each city. A total score was tallied for each city across six different literacy categories: Booksellers; Educational attainment; Internet Resources; Library Resources; Newspaper Circulation; and Periodical publications. All categories were compared against the city’s total population.

The doorknob’s days are numbered. You know this. You find your hand clenching a doorknob and twisting it less often. More often, you just push down on a lever, whether it’s a simple 5-inch bar or a brass handle curved with the elan of a dog’s tail. The compelling argument for door levers is a […]

A formula for the perfect New Year’s resolution has been devised by a leading psychologist. Prof Richard Wiseman, of the University of Hertfordshire, says his technique can greatly boost people’s chances of succeeding in their pledges. But he claims men and women must follow different rules to stick by their decisions to change their lives. […]

Four of the experts at eMarketer weigh in with their thoughts on marketing trends in 2008.

Airport security lines can annoy passengers, but there is no evidence that they make flying any safer, U.S. researchers reported Thursday.

Two anthropologists watched in mixed amazement and horror as several female chimpanzees crafted spears and used them to somewhat brutally hunt smaller mammals.

The FBI today said it wants to install 150 digital billboards in 20 major U.S. cities in the next few weeks to show fugitive mug shots, missing people and high-priority security messages from the big bureau. The billboards will let the FBI highlight those people it is looking for the most: violent criminals, kidnap victims, […]

Cutting on oil-rich fatty diet can be a good New Year resolution as a study has found that having high levels of fat in blood increases risk for a major stroke.

Negativland’s new DVD, My Favorite Things, goes a long way to proving the band’s maxim, "Copyright infringement is your best entertainment value."

The Scottish government is about to find out if there’s power in advertising when it comes to discouraging drinking and driving among young people.

One of the world’s most ambitious building projects, Crystal Island will cost $4 billion and it is scheduled to be built within next 5 years in Moscow. It will be enclosed within a vast mega structure covering a total floor area of 2.5million square metres – floor area alone will be four times the size […]

Between residual eggnog rounds and gift-gloat with family this evening, we plan to tune in to the debut of "Tiger Team," a new series on Court TV which is, more or less, about hacking.

“Enfucell”, a Finland-based company, has developed a flexible thin battery named “SoftBattery”.

Good news for TV networks: online ads work. As TV shows continue their lengthy migration onto the web, new research finds that the people watching those shows actually pay more attention to both advertising and content when they watch online.

The GPS competitor — first begun in the Soviet era and only recently revived after years of post-collapse neglect — is now theoretically capable of providing coverage to the entire Russian territory, with First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov claiming that the first compatible consumer devices will be available in the middle of next year. […]