Brockton High School in Massachusetts has banned this Sesame Street shirt: On some, Oscar the Grouch emerges from his garbage can, wielding a 9 mm handgun. On others, Bert and Ernie are standing in a gang posture, armed...

Kyaik-htiyo Pagoda on Golden Rock. From the website: The golden rock is a large boulder of granite, which is supported by an extremely small area of contact with the rock beneath. It seems to be just before falling down,...

In the 1970s, a Czech magazine published a DIY guide on how to make your very own paper pinhole camera: Its creators, Martin Pilný, Mirek Kolár and Richard Vyškovský, came up with a functional p...

Scanning electron microscopy of the carnivorous fungus Arthrobotrys anchonia capturing a nematode. Fungi can capture nematodes in a variety of ways but the most sophisticated and perhaps the most dramatic is called the c...

Cambridge and Birmingham Universities researchers are collaborating to create the world's smallest internal combustion engines.If they succeed, the micro-engine will outlast today's NiCad and Li-ion batteries by as much...

Sandia National Laboratories' robot, dubbed M2 for the cartoon character "Mighty Mouse" successfully freed a radiation source (the size of a restaurant salt shaker) at the White Sands Missile Range lab.The robo...