A man who handed over a counterfeit million-dollar bill to a cashier at a Pittsburgh supermarket and asked for change has been arrested. Police told the BBC the man became abusive when a manager at the Giant Eagle store confiscated the fake note. He broke an electronic funds-transfer machine at the ...

Nasa wants a few good recruits for its elite astronaut corps. A background in math or science is essential. Test piloting is a plus. And, as the application warns, "Frequent travel may be required." Just not any time soon. NASA has begun a nine-month search to find 10 to 15 astronauts to start train...

Craig venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial life form on Earth.The announcement, which is expected within weeks ...

NASA's Pluto-bound spacecraft, New Horizons, recently surfed a long tail of charged particles trailing behind Jupiter. Observations from that wild ride revealed enormous bobbing bubbles of charged particles, or "plasma," and showed that the structure of the planet's tadpole-shaped "magnetotail" is s...

When schoolchildren turn to the chapter on Christopher Columbus?s humble origins as the son of a weaver in Genoa, they are not generally told that he might instead have been born out of wedlock to a Portuguese prince. Or that he might have been a Jew whose parents converted to escape the Spanish Inq...

One of the most rare and disturbing religious paranormal phenomena is the stigmata, or the manifestation of the wounds of the passion of Christ on the body. These wounds can range from a seemingly psychosomatic feeling of the wounds and the associated pain, but with no corresponding visible damage t...

Anthony north: Astronomy is the science of celestial bodies, including the Sun, moon, planets, stars, galaxies, comets, asteroids and other wandering elements of the universe. Concerning itself with positions, motions, distances, origins and evolution of the cosmos and everything in it, astronomy ha...

Submitted by Waspie Dwarf: A British palaeontologist has found what he thinks is a preserved Tyrannosaurus rex footprint. The metre-square, three-toed track was discovered in the Badlands of Montana, US, an arid landscape that has yielded many of the finest dinosaur specimens. Dr Phil Manning, from ...

To conspiracy theorists, Nick Pope is the right man with the wrong answer. The former head of Britain's UFO Project has had years of unparalleled access and resources to investigate the significance of unexplained visitors to Britain's airspace. Since leaving the MoD in 2006 he has taken up a high p...

There is no doubt in my mind that the orbs may well be one of the most significant ‘outside...