A student sold space on his website by the pixel - U$1 a piece. He's already sold about U$600 000 worth of it- with minimal cost.

Enquanto no Brasil algumas cidades experimentam fechar os bares mais cedo para diminuir a criminalidade, a Inglaterra vai no caminho contrário: a partir de hoje milhares de pubs e outros estabelecimentos tiveram as horas de funcionamento prolongadas.

Engineers from Leeds teach us how to make a perfect paper plane.

This service allows you to send yourself an email - to be delivered at any date in the future! a kind of homemade time capsule. It would be interesting to send a huge attachment with all of your mail, for example, if one weren't concerned about confidentiality. So I just sent a small note to myself. What would, or will, you say to yourself in the future? or to others?

There have been claims that one can create a state of the hydrogen atom which has a closer orbit than the ground state's, yielding much energy in the process. I'm highly skeptical, but curious, nevertheless. An article in The Guardian about the controversy, the website of Black Light Power, the company making the claim.