Welch’s grape juice is taking out full-page print ads in People magazine this month that give readers a chance to sample its grape juice by licking the ad. The front of the advertisement shows a huge bottle of the juice, while the back has a strip that peels up and off, with text that reads: [...]

People are flocking to a remote desert town in Peru to wallow in three slimy mud pits with healing powers that they believe were brought by alien spaceships!

Besides making things taste salty, did you know that there are more than 14,000 uses of salt? The Salt Institute would know, wouldn’t they? Here are their tips on some common and some unusual uses of salt.

In The Spy Who Loved Me, James Bond takes his sports car underwater, swaps his wheels for fins and fires a missile that knocks a pursuing helicopter out of the sky. Roger Moore’s feats as the iconic British spy may be difficult to match, but a Swiss company says it has created a vehicle that [...]

During a week of attempting to cloak every aspect of daily life, our
correspondent found that in an information age, leaving no trace is
nearly impossible.

A kindergarten in northern Sweden has introduced an unusual form of dress code, banning staff and children from wearing clothes with stripes or dots.

The Laser Harp is a musical instrument developed by Dan Millikin
and Tim Walsh. It is a simple concept: the "harp strings" are beams of
laser light directed at sensors, which detect whether or not the beam
is on or off. That all sounds kinda boring, but watching one in actual use is way cool.

They don’t all listen to the same programs, they don’t all use iPods, and they don’t all come from the same background. They are podcast users, and they defy clear-cut connections between usage and factors such as gender, age and income level.

British doctors have issued a warning about illegal skin-lightening creams after
a case in which a woman fell sick from using a product laced with a powerful
steroid.

Astronomers say they have found a miniature version of our own solar
system 5,000 light years across the galaxy — the first planetary system
that really looks like our own, with outer giant planets and room for
smaller inner planets.

The creators of a pioneering device that uses high-frequency sound to stop
teenagers congregating outside shops, schools and railway stations reacted
angrily today to news that the government-appointed Children’s Commissioner
wants to see it banned.