In a plastic container inside the storerooms at St. Augustine's Government House is a slender wooden stick with a carved knob on one end. Think of it as an electric mixer without the electricity.

FRANKENSTEIN, Mo. (AP) -- The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat. The boar gored Kremer in the knee with a razor-sharp tusk.

Duane Hamacher, a doctoral candidate at Macquarie University, used ancient folklore from an Australian Aboriginal people and modern Google maps to locate a meteorite crater in central Australia.

Vanishing without a trace might not be appreciated in friends and lovers but is an excellent relationship to have with one's used packaging material. What becomes a pile of plastic garbage is that it should just disappear into thin air, right? Well, a new

Scientists in the South West have been studying the whiskers and claws of wild mink to try to learn more about the lifestyles of the once-captive animals.

SCIENTISTS have gained a glimpse into how the koala, one of the nation's most loved creatures, may have acted tens of millions of years ago.

Smoking dried vulture brains to have a vision of winning lotto numbers -- that's why customers come to Scelo, a vendor of traditional medicines, but it's a trend being blamed for killing off South Africa's vultures.

Excited children who can't quite wait for Christmas morning, can now track Santa's progress around the world online.

For many of the recycling-minded among us, the sound of glass bottles plinking to the bottom of the trash can provokes a string of nagging thoughts: This feels wrong. Why must we send a recyclable product to the landfill? Why can't Anchorage figure it

It's the stuff of a Hollywood disaster epic: A comet plunges from outer space into the Earth's atmosphere, splitting the sky with a devastating shock wave that flattens forests and shakes the countryside. But this isn't a disaster movie plotline.