HAWTHORNE, California, December 22, 2009 (AFP) - Frederic Scheer is biding his time, convinced that by 2013 the price of oil will be so high that his bio-plastics, made from vegetables and plants, will be highly marketable.

Take a close look at your Christmas tree -- it has seven times more genetic material (DNA) than you do!

Days before Christmas, archeologists discovered the remains of the first dwelling in Nazareth that can be dated back to the time of Jesus.

Without traffic you might as well spend those hours creating elaborate designs and spending money on developing your site just to view it yourself. Without traffic your website will never be seen.

Tesla Motors is attempting to show electric cars can be driven long distance, undertaking a drive from Los Angeles to Detroit in its all-electric Roadster sports car.

The year 2009 was named as International Year of Astronomy. During this year, Hubble went overhauling and with new equipment onboard, the goods delivered by HST further helped astronomers in increasing their knowledge about the mysteries of the universe.

Plimer, Monbiot cross swords in this interview. Controversial climate change denier Professor Ian Plimer and The Guardian's George Monbiot join Australia's Lateline. Watch the debate on Australian tv.

A woman nearly blinded in a nightclub attack tracked down her assailant on Facebook after police said they had no leads.

When a team of archaeologists began excavating an old coral reef in Vanuatu in 2008 and 2009, they soon discovered it had served as a cemetery in ancient times. So far, 71 buried individuals have been recorded

Tools and other archaeological evidence found at the dig are believed to be 10,000 years old