A newly discovered asteroid whose orbit around the Sun had only been tentatively investigated was rumoured last weekend to be on a collision course with Earth
You don’t have to be the Man of Steel to put X-ray vision to good use. Drivers on Japan’s heavily congested roads soon may see through tall trucks and buses — thanks to an in-car computer prototype designed to rid roads of safety black spots
An international set of specifications for writing non-verbal human communications in computer code is being drawn up by a US web standards group. Computer scientists backing the project believe that the language could improve cross-cultural communications and might eventually lend itself to virtual reality and artificial intelligence applications
Mick Jagger was said to be fuming after a picture of the ageing Rolling Stone was used for the front cover of a British seniors’ magazine, Saga
Military and private satellite snapshots of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey reveal an anomaly that researchers say might be the remains of Noah’s Ark
If you’ve read even one article about Microsoft you probably already know that everything the company does is in the interest of consumer convenience — well, that’s the spin, anyway
Foxes, cats, blackberries and bitou bush have not just been disasters for the Australian environment. They are also ethically unacceptable
One-sided coverage of Genoa and the May Day protests has led many to ask if mainstream news broadcasters are really telling us the whole truth. For the real story you’ve got to tune in to the video activists
For the first time, CSIRO and US scientists are using the moon to check and calibrate sensors on board weather satellites. The moon tuned sensors are expected to provide a wealth of improved information about climate change and air pollution
A giant Mr Potato Head statue given by Pawtucket in Rhode Island to its twin town, Belper, in central England had to be removed because local people said they didn’t like it
Telstra has hung up its latest mobile phone promotion, which essentially forces users to foot the bill for spam messages, following an uproar from the Australian Consumer’s Association and pressure from the government
Notorious logging company, Boise Cascade, signs up World Wide Fund for Nature for help with their image-management
The European Space Agency has built its first ground station in Australia, after lifting the largest satellite dish in Western Australia into place in New Norcia, 134 km north of Perth
Environmental authorities have found more than 80 frozen corpses of animals, including rare species, which had apparently died of starvation in a zoo near Rio de Janeiro
As he awaits execution in Ohio, John W Byrd Jr is insisting on the electric chair rather than lethal injection as the more graphic way to demonstrate the cruelty of capital punishment in the face of his self-proclaimed innocence
Environmentalists and the Queensland government have been angered by the latest moves by the federal government in the approvals process for oil drilling on the Great Barrier Reef
A Canadian group is offering Australians a mail order suicide kit, which includes a customised plastic bag for suffocation, to skirt Australia’s anti-euthanasia laws
Britain is considering a controversial change to citizenship rules to require immigrants to learn English as a condition of gaining nationality
Prosecutors say thousands of children in South Florida’s poorest neighbourhoods have been administered unnecessary dental care in a scheme to defraud Medicaid
New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority has 1300 ageing subway cars it wants to get rid of by sinking them in the ocean to crate a huge artificial reef
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