Maybe the dress wasn't the right size, or perhaps it was the grey and gloomy weather - but these two monkeys don't seem over-the-moon after being married in China. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

French scientists are using high-energy ion beams from a particle accelerator to tell vintage Bordeaux wines from fakes. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

A once drug-addled elephant fed heroin-laced bananas by illegal traders will return home after emerging clean from a three-year detox program on China's tropical island province of Hainan. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

The collapsible Caravan Pods fold away to fit standard car parking spaces and are light enough to be towed by the smallest of cars but they stretch out to reveal a spacious holiday home. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

This rare albino cobra may look beautiful, but it is just as deadly as the rest of its species. The three-and-a-half foot reptile was the only one of his albino siblings to survive, and is now kept on his own in a specially constructed enclosure. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

The "extremely rare" fossilised skull of a steppe mammoth has been unearthed in southern France.

The discovery in the Auvergne region could shed much needed light on the evolution of these mighty beasts. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

Although most people imagine wolves chasing deer and other hoofed animals, new research suggests that, when they can, wolves actually prefer fishing to hunting. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

An international team, led by astronomers at the MIT Haystack Observatory, has obtained the closest views ever of what is believed to be a super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

Scientists from Oregon State University and the Natural History Museum in London have announced the discovery of the oldest known fossil of a gecko, with body parts that are forever preserved in life-like form after 100 million years of being entombed in amber. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

Russian archaeologists say they have found the long-lost capital of the Khazar kingdom in southern Russia, a breakthrough for research on the ancient Jewish state. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

How can he not know that cops like doughnuts? picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

Excited villagers pelted each other with snowballs while some ate pieces of the icy sheet that formed over an entire hillside. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

Algordanza, a small company based in the mountainous southeast of Switzerland, uses the ashes of dead people to make diamonds as a permanent memento for their nearest and dearest. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

ESO's Wide Field Imager has captured the intricate swirls of the spiral galaxy Messier 83, a smaller look-alike of our own Milky Way. Shining with the light of billions of stars and the ruby red glow of hydrogen gas, it is a beautiful example of a barred spiral galaxy, whose shape has led to it being nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

A teenage cancer patient has undergone successful surgery to rebuild his shoulder using his elbow.

Tom Lemm, 15, from Pontefract, had his left arm amputated by surgeons at Leeds General Hospital because of a tumour at the top of the limb. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

Oxygen is constantly leaking out of Earth’s atmosphere and into space. Now, ESA’s formation-flying quartet of satellites, Cluster, has discovered the physical mechanism that is driving the escape. It turns out that the Earth’s own magnetic field is accelerating the oxygen away. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

The origin of the microscopic meteorites that make up cosmic dust has been revealed for the first time in new research. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

Excavations at Kfar HaHoresh, in the north of Israel, have revealed a prehistoric funerary precinct dating back to 6,750-8,500 BC. This funerary has grave goods including phallic figurines and sea shells from the Mediterranean and Red Seas, along with other items from Syria, Cyprus and Anatolia. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

Sweden's own version of the Loch Ness monster, the Storsjoe or Great Lake monster, has been caught on film by surveillance videos. In the images filmed Thursday and posted on a website dedicated to the Storsjoe monster, a long serpent-like being is seen swimming in the murky waters. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

Scientists have used gene therapy on mouse embryos to grow hair cells with the potential to reduce hearing loss in adult animals. The proof-of-concept experiments are a crucial step toward therapies that could one day treat deafness and inner-ear disease in humans. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

A new species of giant clam has been discovered in the Red Sea.

Fossils suggest that, about 125,000 years ago, the species Tridacna costata accounted for more than 80% of the area's giant clams. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

The energy for tomorrow's miniature electronic devices could come from tiny microbatteries about half the size of a human cell and built with viruses. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

The gooey, golden stuff that builds up inside your ears should stay there, according to national guidelines on earwax removal released today. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

Nine years after its discovery in the badlands of southeastern Alberta, the 75-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant turtle finally made its public debut Wednesday. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

A weirdly wonderful sight appeared to astronauts aboard the International Space Station this summer — thin blue clouds hovering at the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and the void. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago