A joint Canadian-Chinese study indicates that children learn to tell social lies around age four!

Remember the 70’s toy Weeble ("Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down")? Well, no matter what position you place weebles in, they always sproing upright. They do this because their bottom end are weighted. But can an object "self-right" simply by its shape alone? Turns out the answer is yes: meet the "gomboc", the world’s […]

A letter that a young girl in Japan sent into the sky in a balloon some 15 years ago has been found on a fish hauled from 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) below the Pacific.

There once was a person who lived in a shoe…

A leatherback sea turtle recently completed the longest recorded migration of any sea vertebrate: 12,774 miles (20,558 kilometers) across the Pacific Ocean.

The Airbus A380 is somewhat unique as it is a double-decker all
the way back - think of a 747 with the upper deck extended.
When that airplane was introduced back in the early 70’s,
cocktail lounges and even piano bars were on-board, but these
soon went away for economic reasons - the same
as with the A380. (Amazing pic) […]

More than 300 million mobile phones and devices shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2007, according to
IDC’s "Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker." That was a record, and was up 15.3% over the previous quarter. Total shipments for 2007 reached 1,144.1 million units, up 12.4% over 2006.

Believe it or not, middle age makes you miserable. So, don’t blame your job,
your kids, your spouse, your income or lack of it. A team of researchers from
Britain and the United States has carried out a study and found that people are
more likely to feel depressed in their mid-life, with the peak age for
depression being […]

More than a quarter of
people who bought Apple Inc’s iPhone are using them on wireless networks other
than AT&T’s, the exclusive iPhone carrier in the US, a
“stunning” number that will pressure the company’s business model,
an analyst said.

A new medical imager for detecting and guiding the biopsy of suspicious breast cancer lesions is capable of spotting tumors that are half the size of the smallest ones detected by standard imaging systems, according to a new study.

Engadget is reporting that Wicked Lasers has introduced The Torch. It is the world’s brightest and most powerful flashlight.
The Flashlight is capable of melting plastic, lighting paper on fire
within seconds, and if you like, fry an egg or a marshmallow on a
stick.

Raymond Niro of Niro Scavone Haller & Niro is fighting back against criticism from the Patent Troll Tracker blog by offering a $10,000 bounty for the identity of the person behind it.

Online newspaper readership reached an all-time
high in 2007, according to a Nielsen Online report for the Newspaper
Association of America.

Young men are the most frequent online video viewers, but US Internet users of all ages are getting into the act.
That is the main finding of BurstMedia’s "Online Insights" report, conducted in December 2007.

Marco Facciola, a 16-year-old high school student, constructed this fully functional wooden bicycle to fulfill a class requirement. No metal was used in its construction, only wood and glue.

Fifteen-year-old Demi-Lee Brennan is lucky to be alive: after a virus destroyed her liver, doctors gave her just 48 hours to live when a donated liver became available. But not only that: after the transplant, Demi-Lee became the very first person in the world to take on the immune system and blood type of her […]

To make his hotel stand out from its competitors, Belgrade hotelier Dusan Zabunovic decided to give his hotel a peculiar theme: current and past world leaders! In addition to the Bushes, Margaret Thatcher, Fidel Castro and Joseph Stalin, there is also a junior suite named after the infamous Adolf Hitler.

He is a true Hollywood star, plucked from obscurity to play a leading role in a series of hit films before overcoming an addiction to alcohol and cigars.Now, Cheeta the Chimp who is 75 and is listed in the Guinness World Records as the oldest living non-human primate, is to publish his memoirs.

A man who calls himself a tantric master has broken his own world record by standing in ice for 72 minutes.

Here are a few crazy stories wrapped up in the form of photos that will shake your understanding of the world down to the very core.

More and more people in Western society are suffering from auto-immune diseases.

In honor of the year of the rat and Chinese New Year (Feb. 7), iRiver’s coating their rat/mouse-shaped Mplayer in gold.

A mathematical problem in which you can hold the proof physically in your own hands - the world’s first
self-righting object.

Cat with five legs dropped off at shelter.
Veterinarians look at it, realize something is not right with a cat
that has five legs, confer among themselves, agree to remove two legs.

From navigational devices that play
your favorite movie to vehicles that run on Hydrogen, the 9th Auto Expo packed
all the punch of technical wizardry.
Car makers teamed up with
component manufacturers to reveal a bevy of products and technology that left
the common man dazed with awe. With global warming catching up fast, companies
showcased their alternate fuel technologies […]