When Roger Kusch helped Bettina Schardt kill herself at home on Saturday, the grim, carefully choreographed ritual was like that in many cases of assisted suicide, with one exception.

This video shows the test of a software developed as a programming exercise. The image is digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different frames in the display. The …

Li Ching-Yun. Image from The People’s Republic of China
According to the 1933 obituaries in both Time Magazine and the New York Times, Li Ching-Yun was reported to have buried 23 wives and fostered 180 …

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Can a head live without a body? The answer should be simple: yes, but only for a little while. Scientists say that the brain continues to function for about two minutes after the …

Employees at the Takashimaya department store in Osaka have created four reproductions of world-famous paintings using 320,000 old train tickets obtained from the nearby Nankai Namba station. The works, which include renditions of da Vinci’s …

An Italian man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a pub, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes, police said Monday.
The 43-year-old man dragged the …

This is a 100ft (30m) diameter Ferris Wheel designed to carry [4] cars. The public will be able to ride in it, just like any other amusement ride. Naturally, such an unusual ride has been …

This is an insight to the person behind the piercings. After watching the documentary you will find that Elaine is a character with depth and intelligence.

For the new MessageLabs marketing campaign, the company has worked with Rumanian graphic artist Alex Dragulescu to graphically show what cyber threats actually look like. It is a series of visualization of worms, viruses, trojans …

This images are very special because they are super small.
The first three are painted on a single human hair. The fourth one is painted on a diamond within a 1mm x 1mm area. Amazing artworks …

Nothing is as fascinating as an unexplained accident
New batch of strange mis-happenings, weird situations, and often maddeningly mysterious wrecks, where we keep asking ourselves: “How on earth could that happen?”
Are you in a huge hurry? …

For a recent design competition called What if New York City…, architects and city planners were asked: What if New York City were hit by a Category 3 hurricane? What if the most densely residential …

This is just frightening: Do four cell phones actually generate enough radiation heat to pop popcorn, or is it a hoax?

Two artists from Moscow are obsessed with an idea that a frog should fly too, so they make different photos of the frog in a “flight”, giving a name for each of them.
They think that …

He’s not the sort of creature that could easily scuttle about unnoticed. But somehow Bill the elephant beetle managed to sneak into a crate of bananas in Costa Rica and smuggle himself over here. The …

Welcome to the world of lunatics and masochists - that’s what it says when you visit the “About” page on the official site of Le Marathon des Sables. And I don’t think they’re just saying …