Apr 12 2008
Melting ice in southern Chile caused a glacial lake to swell and then empty suddenly, sending a “tsunami” rolling through a river, a scientist said Thursday.
Apr 11 2008
THE family of a man allegedly killed with a single punch has placed an Aboriginal curse on the person accused of the crime - pointing a bone at him in court.
Apr 8 2008
BEER will be short supply, more expensive and may taste different as climate change affects barley production, a scientist says.
Apr 7 2008
Do you smoke? Well, you better be careful where. I don’t smoke, and I don’t like the smell, but what some people are doing to smokers makes me say give me a break.
Apr 4 2008
Steve Gooder tells the tale of a British-born hunter and his mighty foe - and how their duel in the dying days of the Wild West led to the birth of America’s conservation movement
Apr 3 2008
How different the world might look now if President Bush and his advisers had sat around his desk in the Oval Office and settled on the phrase: “Axis of Unbearably Odious” or “Axis of Hatred”. But they rejected those and instead...
Apr 3 2008
The Big Apple has a new logo, and Apple says: Drop dead. At issue is the emblem for New York City’s GreeNYC campaign, which has started to appear around the city on bus shelters, hybrid gasoline-electric taxicabs and even Whole Foods shopping...
Apr 2 2008
Professor Michio Kaku, of City University in New York, has ruled out time travel for at least a few millennia, but believes invisibility cloaks and telepathy could be possible this century.
Apr 1 2008
Evidence has emerged that humans learned the medicinal properties of soil and plants from fellow primates. Roger Highfield reports