All commercial transport aircraft are fitted with underwater locator beacons to assist in the relocation of black box flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders. These beacons are free-running pingers that transmit signals at an acoustic frequ ...

Ford gallery

Baby on board

Do dogs react to magic? Watch as magician & mentalist Jose Ahonen vanished some dog treats under their noses.

Titanic A True Story

"The largest" ad network in the world is interested in running ads on their (adblock) site. How do you think, what should they respond for that?

The hottest role these days for a young actress? Egg donor. Egg “agents” are aggressively recruiting city models and actresses, whose looks are coveted by couples turning to in-vitro fertilization.

People are increasingly aware of the side-effects of caffeine - but do they know the volume of the drug they're drinking in their favourite beverages?

A recently discovered HIV strain leads to significantly faster development of AIDS than currently prevalent forms, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. The period from infection to development of AIDS was the shortest reported am ...

Today I found out that during the height of the Cold War, the US military put such an emphasis on a rapid response to an attack on American soil, that to minimize any foreseeable delay in launching a nuclear missile, for nearly two decades they inten ...

SSD maker OCZ Technology said it would file for bankruptcy and that it had received an offer from Toshiba to buy its assets in a bankruptcy proceeding.

Jingle Hoops

Failure of the main computer during a fireworks show

You learn something new everyday

Which is more nutritious - Fresh or Frozen?

No matter what direction you view this image from, the gun will be pointing at you

A mother has been taken into custody after she allegedly tore her six-year-old son's genitals off as punishment, and then used superglue to fix them. After becoming enraged with the boy and causing the shocking injury Jennifer Marie Vargas, appl ...

Scientists have confirmed the discovery of the most distant galaxy ever found, and the data could shed light on a period of the early universe when light couldn't travel from one galaxy to another.

At long last, engineers at Florida International University have found a way of breaking the 2D limitation of magnetic hard drive storage. By moving to three dimensions, the researchers have massively increased areal density, with the possibility of ...

Human memory can be funny. Sometimes, all it takes is a single word, smell, or image to bring back a flood of memories and ideas, even years later.