This gamekeeper sprints for his life after disturbing a hungry hippo while it was stuffing its face. He fled as the angry three-ton beast – which can hit speeds of up to 30mph – charged at him, still with a mouthful of grass. The keeper only ma...

India's first moon exploration mission was cut short Sunday after the country's national space agency lost radio contact with Chandrayaan-1, an unmanned spacecraft orbiting the moon. The cause of the communications breakdown is unknown, but repeated...

dy Dai was a Chinese nobleman’s wife in her mid-50s when she died of a heart attack. She was overweight, had diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, liver disease, gallstones and her arteries were almost totally clogged. She didn’t live...

Chiasmodon niger, a deep sea fish sometimes called “the black swallower,” can devour fish larger than itself. The funny looking roundnose grenadier. As an adaptation to low temperatures, the Antarctic ice fish has no red blood pigments and no red...

A novel anti-crime surveillance program that will record the license plate number of every car entering and leaving Tiburon should be up and running within six months, officials said Thursday. The Town Council voted 4-0 late Wednesday – with Vice...

The National Security Agency (NSA) worked with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7, an agency official acknowledged yesterday during testimony before Congress. “Working in partnership with Microsoft and elements of the Department of Defense, NSA...

It’s one of those (unfortunately rare) movies that combine a brilliant storyline with a quality actor and tasteful directing/editing. And the soundtrack – part of which you can hear in the trailer – sets the vibe perfectly. All for a fraction of the...

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest and most expensive science experiment, produced its first collisions Monday, said scientists at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research outside Geneva. Seemingly making up for lost time after...