Scientists have discovered the world's first 'self-watering' plant in Israel's Negev desert - one of the driest regions on earth.

Our new radiocarbon dating of the Condover mammoths changes that, by showing that mammoths returned to Britain and survived until around 14,000 years ago."

Workmen inside Florence's courthouse have stumbled across a spiral column and hundreds of multicoloured fragments that experts believe may have belonged to a Roman temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis.

You can´t miss this one really! wow!

BBC News: Scientists say they have located the brain areas that may determine how sociable a person is.

One security company warned that the attacks may not be over. "There's going to be quite a few modified Twitter worms for a day or two,", on his company's Web site. "Be careful in Twitter, don't view profiles, don't follow links."

The Mexican Indian word chocolate comes from a combination of the terms choco (foam) and atl (water) because for centuries early c

The Mayans and Aztecs discovered that the seeds of the cacao tree can be processed into chocolate. These early peoples mixed the ground cacao seeds with spices to create a beverage.

In the 1800s cities used pneumatic tubes to transfer physical documents. Of course with the internet we no longer need these long tunnels, but that doesn't mean that they aren't fun to learn about how these old systems are similar to the internet.

Maya Indians, a people living in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador, whose highly developed civilization reached its peak in the seventh and eighth centuries.