You think that in order to make the big bucks, you have to get involved
in the glamor professions, such as acting or professional athletics.
You might be surprised to learn, however, that none of those
professions made the top 10 or even the top 25 list of highest-paying
jobs, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. It should […]

Utah Police are questioning a group of Davis County teenagers accused of trading nude pictures over cell phones.

Bad news for Coco and Blinko — children
don’t like clowns and even older kids are scared of them. The news that will no doubt have clowns shedding tears was
revealed in a poll of youngsters by researchers from the
University of Sheffield who were examining how to improve the
decor of hospital children’s wards. 
The study, reported in the […]

After the jump is a detailed map of religious groups and their influence in the US. (w/pic)

A new, highly drug-resistant strain of the “flesh-eating” MRSA bacteria
is being spread among gay men in San Francisco and Boston, researchers
reported on Monday.

If Idoya could talk, she would have plenty to boast about. On Thursday, the 12-pound, 32-inch monkey made a 200-pound, 5-foot
humanoid robot walk on a treadmill using only her brain activity. She was in North Carolina, and the robot was in Japan. It
was the first time that brain signals had been used to make a […]

Fruit pickers beware. That red berry might actually be an infested ant’s rear end.

Researchers are developing a new ultrarealistic synthetic skin they hope will be wrapped around next-generation prosthetic arms.

The "darkest ever" substance known to science has been made in a US laboratory. The material was created from carbon nanotubes - sheets of carbon just one atom thick rolled up into cylinders.
Researchers say it is the closest thing yet to the ideal
black material, which absorbs light perfectly at all angles and over
all wavelengths.
The discovery […]

Plans are being made to extend medical help to an octogenarian woman in Nepal who is the last known speaker of a minority language.

Some elderly adults may be more susceptible to fraud because of changes in
their brain that affect judgment and decision-making, researchers said on
Tuesday.

The United Nations has announced that 2008 is the International Year of Potatoes with the theme of "promoting food safety and alleviating poverty".

Less than a year after eMarketer asked "Is DRM Doomed?," the answer is fast becoming "yes." As The New York Times reported, Sony is the last of the big four music labels to offer music unrestricted by DRM for download from Amazon.com.

Three high school students in Racine, Wisconsin, discovered an asteroid, temporarily identified as "2008 AZ28"

The number of abortions performed in the United States dropped to 1.2
million in 2005 — the lowest level since 1976, according to a new
report. The number of abortions fell at least in part because the proportion
of women ending their pregnancies with an abortion dropped 9 percent
between 2000 and 2005, hitting the lowest level since 1975, […]