The pale halo-shaped cloud was hovering over Moscow on Wednesday
In what could have been a scene from the film Independence Day, a luminous ring-shaped cloud could be seen hovering over the city of Moscow last week.  The pale gold ‘halo’ could be seen above the Russian capital city’s Western District on Wednesday, and was captured [...]

The pit crew worked furiously to get Bossy ready to roll again,
but as everyone knew, cow repair was not an exact science

Andy Warhol once said, “Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I [...]

While we’ve all heard of diseases, seen someone with a disease, and had a disease personally, it’s unlikely that we’ve encountered a rare disease. In the non-medical world, people use and interchange disease to mean infection, sickness, illness, or something similar. In the medical world, a disease is an abnormal condition that impairs bodily functions [...]

India is sucking 54 trillion liters of water out of the ground every year
India’s thirst for groundwater is threatening a major water crisis, and adding to global sea level rise, says a report.
Virendra Tiwari, from the National Geophysical Research Institute in Hyderabad, says that satellite measurements have shown that northern India is sucking some 54 [...]

E-Tron concept electric car
Audi has unveiled its new electric car concept, the Audi e-tron at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany.  The all electric car is basically a modified Audi R8 sports car, but slightly smaller in all dimensions. The car delivers a massive 4500 Nm (3,319 lb-ft) of torque and 233 kW (313 horsepower), [...]

 
The Punch Camera is just like any other digital camera, but with a twist. You can still load your photos onto a computer via USB, but the Punch also has a series of pins that you can use to literally punch a rasterized image onto a piece of paper. You lose a lot of definition [...]

Beware of crazy little men carrying vacuum cleaners,
for they represent an entirely new breed of suckers

Some photos cause headaches and others cause scandals. However, this particular combination of photos has been selected to cause a jock rash in people without a sense of humor. (Pics)

It’s been a busy, stressful week, with Iran’s nuclear plans, tragic natural disasters in Samoa, Indonesia, and the Philippines, and a new climate bill in the Senate packing the headlines with nail-biting tension. So what do I have to say to all that? Why, it’s nothing an adorable picture of a polar bear cub taking [...]

Sometimes nature gives a photographer a stunning opportunity to take magnificent pictures. Clouds and light produce some of the most stunning yet transient works of Mother Nature.  Take a look at some incredible sky photos.

Junior cowboys always work their way up the
livestock food chain before they get to horses

If wishes were fishes, and hope springs eternal, then wishes for hope would be wishes for eternal fishes. Hmmm, maybe not. Putting a square peg in a round hole is not the same as drilling a round hole into the side [...]

Hey, knock it off with the legs! I’m the cute one!
Not all humor is funny to all people. Similarly, not all humor is funny to me. Therefore, I am the same as all people. Hmmm, great logic is the antithesis of great humor. But not all people are logical, so therefore logical people are the [...]

The photo actually shows a trail of urine and waste water streaming out of the shuttle Discovery.
The beautiful trail in the sky looked like a mysterious celestial event. In reality, it was urine.  Some skygazers were treated to the unexpected view of a bright sparkling glow Wednesday night, created when astronauts aboard the space shuttle [...]

Chinese government workers dressed in traditional costumes take part in a competition of singing patriotic songs in Chengdu.
Chinese citizens and government workers have been preparing for months for their upcoming celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1st. Parts of Beijing have been shut down several [...]

Some signs are certain to crack you up, some are likely to infuriate you, some send such mixed signals hardly a human being will come out of the experience unaffected. Perhaps, some would even pledge to enter the sign design business, just to keep the streets unpolluted by the atrocities you are about to see [...]

The $300-billion fashion business is in the midst of an epic shake-up that is changing the way clothes are designed, marketed and purchased. The Internet — the same force that has splintered the media and music industries — is challenging the taste-making role of the fashion elite, a shift that is being accelerated by the [...]

Joy riding around the nuclear power plant does have a few side effects
Every week we spend time finding and sorting through our top ten photos. And every week we end up with more than ten. Its not because we can’t count. Rather, it’s because we don’t think you can.  (Pics)
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A small region inside the globular cluster Omega Centauri, which has nearly 10 million stars
Astronomers unveiled new pictures and observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. With the exception of a picture last month of the bruise on Jupiter caused by a comet, they were the first data obtained with the telescope since a crew spent 13 [...]

LAPP
The light art performance photography (LAPP), is a one-shot long time bulb exposure photography, performed additionally with movement of light. (Pics)
 

Tired of all the attention the pandas were getting, they decided to stage a protest
In case of fire, break glass. No, not that glass. No, not that glass either. Come to think of it, broken glass and fires don’t really go together. Who in the hell ever thought that was a good idea in the [...]

A camera on board India’s maiden unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 has recorded images of the landing site of US spacecraft Apollo 15, a scientist said on Wednesday, rubbishing conspiracy theories that the fourth US mission to land on the moon four decades back was a hoax.
 

Albino siblings Esthefany Caroline, Ruth Caroline, Kauan pose with their mother Rosemere Fernandes and their brothers
A black mother has baffled scientists after giving birth to three albino children.  Parents Rosemere Fernandes de Andrade and her partner Joao are dark-skinned Afro-Brazilians, yet three of their five children are albinos.
 

The Kopp-Etchells effect
Have you heard anything about the Kopp-Etchells effect?  In fact, the Kopp-Etchells effect is a new name. Reporter and former Green Beret Michael Yon took a series of intriguing photos of glowing rotor blades as a helicopter lands in a military base in Afghanistan. (Pics)
 

Students at the Istituto Europeo Di Design (IED) Turin have designed concepts for an Aston Martin supercar for 2025. The idea was to create a car that would be fit for the roads of the future, and also live up to the sporty design, performance and elegance that is expected from an Aston supercar. (Pics [...]

The Lego House
I can confidently wager that some of you have spent a fair amount of time building miniature cities with Legos at some point in your lives. I know I did. Not only cities, but spaceships and boats, and forts, and . . . well, you get the picture. But James May, a toy fanatic from [...]

Even mothers have trouble loving some babies
The next time you smile, remember what you’re smiling about. Is is from something that you witnessed visually? It it from an idea that sparked suddenly in your mind? Or is it from combination of visual, auditory, and intellectual experiences. What you will soon realize is that all the [...]