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A pair of German scientists have become early frontrunners for the 2004 "Ig Nobels" — annual awards handed out for eccentric research — thanks to their work in calculating the pooping power of penguins.
The Scottish burr may often prove incomprehensible to English ears, but the Foreign Office apparently considers the accent so impenetrable that it has rejected a Russian student's application to study in Scotland on the grounds that she might not understand the language.
An unthinkable crime happened in the city of Alton. Officers say a man was in a rage and cut off part of his penis. He then walked over a mile for help.
Millions of people around the world who smoke low-tar cigarettes face just the same risk of lung cancer as smokers who puff on medium-tar brands, according to the first major study to compare the health risks of tar ratings.
You have to wonder about the motivation of a person who owns a company that provides male and female exotic dancers and chooses to do a little advertising in a girls' high school basketball game program.
MysticVCD is one of dozens of "ripping" or "release" groups that obtain, prepare, package and feed movies, songs and games into a secretive and complex distribution scheme that functions a bit like the illegal drug trade — minus the bloodletting.
A medical aid group said that the American news media last year provided too little coverage of some world trouble spots, including the conflicts in Colombia, Chechnya and Congo.
Heard the one about the alligators living in the New York sewers? Thought so, says Justine Hankins — but then, animals make perfect characters for urban myths
Nostradamus might have predicted you'd read this story. The seemingly all-knowing Renaissance man would have just celebrated his 500th birthday, if he hadn't died back in 1566 — an event, some say, he predicted in detail.
When you first meet Steve Mann, it seems as if you've interrupted him appraising diamonds or doing some sort of specialized welding. Because the first thing you notice is the plastic frame that comes around his right ear and holds a lens over his right eye.
