British actor-comedian Sacha Baron Cohen says the time has come to shed forever his persona as Borat, the boorish, oversexed, TV journalist from Kazakhstan who became a surprise box office sensation last year. picked by punthe 2 years ago

For decades, Brenda Rowlands wondered what her husband Dewi kept locked away in the wooden chest he stored in the shed.

*I would have been afraid to look picked by bingo 10 months ago

Police were in a three-hour standoff with a shed behind a Salt Lake City home before finding out it was locked and empty. Neighbors were evacuated and police shut down a portion of a city street nearby. picked by equinox 11 months ago

Men living in the northwestern Italian town of Varallo will receive 50 euros ($70) for losing 4 kg (9 pounds) in a month, Mayor Gianluca Buonanno said. Women will get the same amount for shedding 3 kg (7 pounds). picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

As climate change continues to make headlines across the world, participants at the 2007 Envisat Symposium this week are hearing how Earth observation satellites allow scientists to better understand the parameters involved in global warming and how this is impacting the planet. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Fast-acting astronomers have captured blazars in the act of spewing out material, providing new insights into these powerful phenomena. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes -- known as anthropoids -- evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

"Superhydrophobic" materials that never get wet have an Achilles' heel, say chemists: they can fend off cold, but not hot water.

After studying this effect, the team has now designed a new material coating that can repel hot water. It could be used to make anti-scald clothing, they say, which could help to protect vulnerable members of the population from hot-water burns. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Astronomers have shed light on the mysterious origins of the fastest spinning stars known to science - millisecond pulsars.
These are the fastest spinning class of pulsars - dense cosmic bodies that emit radio waves along their magnetic poles. picked by bingo 6 months ago

Not only is the fridge solar powered, it can also be built from household materials - making it ideal for the Third World.

Emily Cummins, 21, came up with the idea while working on a school project in her grandfather's potting shed. The fridge is now improving the lives of thousands of poverty-stricken Africans. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

I am very please to announce that Punks not Dad are the official band of Shed Week 2009, ok it’s the first time we had such a thing, but after their wonderful song about sheds “IN ME SHED” it would be wrong not to get them involved… picked by Bornbad 8 months ago

A simple flush of the toilet in Canton last March had a long-lasting, expensive effect. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

It's an ambitious task, recreating the universe in a bucket. But if it is successful, the experiment could help solve the twin puzzles of why we’re made of matter rather than antimatter and where the huge magnetic fields that span galaxies come from. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Cosmic debris stripped away from the wreck of colliding galaxies has been found by the Subaru telescope atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

The debris fields could shed light on galaxy formation and starburst activity in the early universe by allowing astronomers to retrace the paths of the colliding galaxies before they merged. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

Medieval times weren't all about beheadings and public dissections, as much as Hollywood would have us believe. Here we shed a little light on the not-so-barbaric Dark Ages, and what really went on in the worlds of torture and justice. picked by Bornbad 10 months ago

21st of April: San Jacinto day.
More than 400 artifacts — fruits of a recently completed archaeological project — are helping fill the gaps in the story of Sam Houston’s routing of the Mexican military. picked by thirdeye 7 months ago

The police and a helicopter soon found the pilot hiding behind a shed wearing only a wristwatch and a pair of sandals. picked by 2longdogs 2 years ago

A rare new kind of star may have been discovered. It is much like the white dwarf our own sun should eventually become—save for a mysterious shroud of carbon ash. The findings could shed light on the life and death of stars, astronomers said. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Senator George Allen travelled yesterday to this pleasant town in central Virginia named for the family that made lynching famous, fighting to save his own political neck. picked by robfouryqr 3 years ago

A message in a bottle found in the walls of an old shed from 1939. Bottle and message from the parents returned to the children. picked by rwills 1 year ago