The body of a shark was left lying in the middle of a Miami street after two men apparently tried to sell it to several fish markets.

NEW YORK - The luxury retailer Barneys New York has removed a window display that made it appear blood-spattered mannequins were fending off attackers.

ARVADA, Colo. - A land mine found in a suburban Denver Goodwill donation box forced the evacuation of a strip mall.

French factory workers angry over layoffs and cost cuts locked up their bosses at a Michelin tire plant and a U.S.-owned cigarette-paper mill in a new eruption of "bossnappings."

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NEW YORK - The Naked Cowboy might be considered a quirky asset to New York City's tourism industry. Now the Times Square traffic-stopper says he'd make a mighty fine mayor.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Rabbits are certainly known for their propensity for multiplying, but one species of jackrabbit is having trouble keeping up.

The New York Post says ESPN is to blame for identifying reporter Erin Andrews as the subject of a secretly filmed Internet video that shows a woman naked in a hotel room.

JERUSALEM - Judaism's holiest prayer site has entered the Twitter age.

A man has sued a California Claim Jumper restaurant claiming he ordered French onion soup and bit into a condom instead of melted cheese.

Applying biological molecules from cell membranes to the surfaces of artificial materials is opening peepholes on the very basics of cell-to-cell interaction. Two new articles suggest that putting lipids and other cell membrane components on manufactured surfaces could lead to

The race is on for a successor to the popular 'flash' memory used in portable devices. Researchers think they have found a candidate in novel materials combined with a simple, easily fabricated 'crossbar' architecture.

Computer scientists and biologists have developed software which provides a better understanding of how viruses evolve.

Scientists have found a method of attaching molecules to semiconducting silicon that may help manufacturers reach beyond the current limits of Moore's Law as they make microprocessors both smaller and more powerful.

Much as meteorologists predict the path and intensity of hurricanes, some researchers believe we will one day predict with unprecedented foresight, specificity and scale such things as the economic and social effects of billions of new Internet users in China

A supercomputer named Novo-G described by its lead designer as likely the most powerful computer of its kind in the world became operational the week of July 21, 2009.

In comparison to classical physics, quantum physics predicts that the properties of a quantum mechanical system depend on the measurement context, i.e., whether other system measurements are carried out. Physicists have for the first time proven in a comprehensive experiment

The weak interaction has the shortest range of the fundamental forces and does some of the most peculiar things, like changing the flavor of quarks, governing the interactions of neutrinos, and violating parity -- nature's mirror symmetry. In ytterbium, researchers

A teen bought a bag of Skittles from a CVS store and got more than he bargained for

Though digital technologies and high-speed communications have significantly expanded the capabilities of scientists -- allowing them to analyze and share vast amounts of data -- these technologies are also raising difficult questions for researchers, institutions and journals.