These days, when you fill up your car with a gasoline-and-ethanol blend, you are probably burning ethyl alcohol made from American corn. A few years from now, your commute may be powered by ethanol from sugar cane grown in Brazil's

ROME -- A large 2nd-century bath complex believed to be part of a wealthy Roman's luxurious residence has been partially dug up, archaeologists said Thursday. The exceptionally well-preserved two-story complex, which extends for at least five acres, i

MADRID (AFP) - Spanish researchers on Friday said they had unearthed a human tooth more than one million years old, which they estimated to be the oldest human fossil remain ever discovered in western Europe.

A giant penguin that preferred the tropics to the southern oceans has been discovered by a team of scientists.The fossilised remains of the animal, which lived some 36 million years ago, were found in what is today Peru.

June 11, 2007 -- ROME -This is just the first step in the creation of a virtual time machine, which our children and grandchildren will use to study the history of Rome and many other great cities around the world.

Honda is dropping the hybrid version of the Honda Accord. Honda's decision to place a hybrid system in the V-6 version of the Accord, rather than the more fuel-efficient four-cylinder vehicle, was a critical error. That decision--

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A team of U.S. researchers was able to power a light bulb from a power source more than two metres away, an advance in wireless power transfer that could cut the final cord required by portable technology.

T. rex was no slacker. But the popular image of a nimble predator turning on a dime and chasing down prey with lightning speed is fiction, new computer models show. The terrifying tyrannosaur was actually a slowpoke.

ASTRONOMERS have pinpointed two massive stars orbiting close to each other in space that could merge to create a huge "super" sun, 100 times bigger than our own. The "binary" star system, located in a nearby galaxy