Following the Hogfather the First of the Discworld books has been made into a movie and well be shown this easter.

May I be the first to say: WOOOOOHOOOOOO! picked by thenegativeone 2 years ago

Global warming is not only making the wild sheep of Soay to shrink but it is also making them change colour, claim scientists. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

The Peppered moth, which changed its colour from white to black in areas of Britain with heavy pollution, is now reverting back to its original appearance. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

A schoolgirl was disciplined for dying her hair dark brown even though her sister's light brown colour was accepted. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

I bet you get it wrong first time basicly click the colour not the word. picked by spocksmyhomeboy 3 years ago

It was the size of a dustbin lid and had a range of just half a mile.

The world's first mobile phone could hardly be more different to today's devices, which are small enough to slip inside a pocket and can call almost anywhere in the world. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A colour barcode system holding more data than current codes will find its way onto DVDs later this year. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday claimed its own version of Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, after the birth of a cloned camel in Dubai this month. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

The world's only transplant recipient of two full arms said the feeling of being whole again was "indescribable". picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Emma Brady will be getting the "world's first divorce by Facebook," according to the Daily Mail. picked by Bornbad 10 months ago

As one of Britain's favourite garden flowers, the Busy Lizzie has bloomed in almost every colour ... except blue. The explorers, botanists Yuan Yong-Ming and Ge Xue-Juan, found a sapphire blue version of the flower while exploring the 16,600ft-deep Namchabarwa Canyon in Tibet four years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

British archaeologists have unearthed the secrets of what is thought to be the world’s first prisoner of war camp.

Experts, working with Channel 4’s Time Team programme, say the camp near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, housed 7,000 captured French soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

The US space agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned its first images since reaching the Moon on 23 June.

The probe's two cameras returned images of a region in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds). picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Amusing article, although the page is wayyy too busy. I'm pretty sure witty Plimates could add more to the list. picked by gnikgnok 3 years ago

Enough gloom and doom: There’s a prediction from a leading colour source that cheerful and sunny yellow will be the influential colour of 2009. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

In a discovery that could brighten up the lives of millions, scientists have created a drug that restores white hair to its natural colour.

They hope the drug, converted into a shampoo, could eventually be used as an alternative to dyes to hide greying locks. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

The ingredient used to colour Peking duck can cut the risk of dying from heart disease by a third and cancer by two-thirds, scientists say. More detailed article here.

I like peking duck *drools* picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

With the credit crunch continuing to bite why not try an alternative way of making money by renting out your eyelids as advertising space? picked by Bornbad 11 months ago

The photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) show the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution in glorious technicolour.

Perhaps my nationality makes me biased, but this is a beautiful exhibition. Try comparing it with pre-Pearl Harbour America. The process they used to make the pictures is amazing, too. picked by hazelly 3 years ago

Utilizing a technique that combines low temperature measurements and theoretical calculations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists and others have revealed for the first time the electronic structure of single DNA molecules. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago