Archaeologists working in Akron, Ohio, claim to have found the world's oldest three-dimensional representation of Santa Claus.

he 3-ton camera inside VISTA houses 16 special detectors with a combined photographic power of 67 million pixels (for reference, high-quality cameras in cellphones can take 3 million pixel images).

A team of researchers from the University of Vigo, Rutgers University in the United States and Imperial College London, in the United Kingdom, has developed "laser spinning," a novel method of producing glass nanofibres with materials.

Skull fragments of prehistoric koalas from the Riversleigh rainforests of millions of year ago suggest they shared the modern koala's "lazy" lifestyle and ability to produce loud "bellowing" calls to attract mates and provide warnings about predators.

By modelling the behaviour of stars in clusters, the Bonn team finds that they are ideal environments for black holes to coalesce.

Asian giants China and Indonesia have hailed the Copenhagen UN climate summit outcome, despite its cool reception from aid agencies and campaigners.

Detectors in the mine, part of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment, were tripped recently by what might be weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs.

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During your graduate school search, try looking for niche degrees that will set you apart from the crowd, even if they sound a little, well, different. Here are 20 weird, but potentially useful master's degrees to get you started.