A mysterious, 1,700-year-old coffin made from a 360-kilogram slab of lead — bizarrely folded over its ancient corpse like a "burrito" — has been unearthed on the outskirts of Rome.

Researchers from Sunchon National University in Suncheon, South Korea, and Rice University in Houston have built a radio frequency identification tag that can be printed directly onto cereal boxes and potato chip bags. The tag uses ink laced with carbon nanotubes to print electronics on paper or plastic that could instantly transmit information

Geologists from the University of Leicester are among four scientists- including a Nobel prize-winner - who suggest that the Earth has entered a new age of geological time.

If you’re looking to indulge in the other, other white meat but can’t stand the idea of society branding you a cannibal, this might be the loophole you’re looking for. And there are plenty of dishes to choose from.

Can anyone tell me where I can find a non-chemical food ingredient?

Awesome... Cave and Well in Mexico's Yucatan (pic) view! - *****

Previously unobservable events occurring between insemination and fertilization are the subject of a groundbreaking new article in Science magazine.

Harmless interstellar hydrogen becomes deadly ionized radiation that would fry the crew and electronics of starships traveling near light speed, according to a physicist.

Monkeys are getting high for science in North Carolina. An analyst at the Civitas Institute seized on that image when selecting a cocaine addiction study at Wake Forest University Medical School as No. 1 on a list of the "10 worst federal stimulus projects in North Carolina." Civitas' Brian Balfour takes swipes at projects, writing that they "see

"If you look at the fossil record, it is just littered with dead bodies from past catastrophes,” observes University of Washington paleontologist Peter Ward.