A Toronto man is putting a solar car to the ultimate test: On June 12th, he began an international road trip that will take him from Buffalo, New York, all the way up to Inuvik, in Canada's Northwest Territories. More »
By creating a man-made tornado, an inventor realized he could extract enough electricity to power a small city. More »
Since the town of Bohmte, Germany implemented a radical new anti-traffic control procedure a month ago, there hasn’t been a single accident on the busy roads. More »
If you’re spending the summer months stuck in your office instead of soaking up some rays at the beach, you may be looking a little paler than you’d like – but you’re sure to have a little more color than the recently-discovered albino crows of East Vancouver, Canada. More »
Last week, NASA's Phoenix Lander discovered a possible layer of ice on Mars - which means the planet may be habitable for life forms. More »
Two years ago, a man traded up from a red paperclip to a house. Now, he's ready to move - and he's willing to trade the house in for a better offer. More »
Visitors to the Edmonton Valley Zoo in Alberta, Canada last Thursday morning got a special treat: It was the first public appearance of a pair of newborn red panda twins. More »
After his sailboat capsized, Paul Epp was stranded alone in Lake Erie without a life jacket. Amazingly, he swam for 13 hours to get back to the shore. More »
Last October, Utah geneticist Mario Capecchi was awarded the the Nobel Prize. But he discovered an even greater reward last month: a long-lost sister. More »
Most babies don’t take their first international flight until they’re at least a few months old. But little Jadan Brown may be the most well-traveled newborn in the world: he entered the world from an airplane, somewhere over Canada. More »
Most summer camps aren't safe for children with sight-impairments - but luckily, there's Camp Bloomfield, a camp created just for blind and vision-impaired children. More »
According to the organizers of the 2012 Olympics in London, 55,000 stadium seats from their new 80,000-seat Olympic arena could be dismounted and recycled for future Olympic events. More »
A lightbulb at a firefighters' station in Livermore, California, has been running for more than 107 years. More »
People-watchers in London and New York are about to get a cross-continental fix, thanks to a cool new device called the Telectroscope. More »
A brilliant 16-year-old has come up with a way to decompose plastic bags in a mere three months. More »