Buttered popcorn is 16-year-old Mitchell Duffy's favorite movie-theater treat. But he didn't like that only the top layer of popcorn got the concessionaire's squirt of butter. So the junior at I...

Producing biodiesel from algae has been touted as the most efficient way to make biodiesel fuel. The advantage being that the land requirement for growing the biodiesel is very small. Independent stud...

Next time you find yourself talking on your mobile phone in the middle of a thunderstorm you may want to cut the conversation short. UK doctors have warned of the danger of lightning strikes when u...

AN INQUIRER READER attending a conference in Japan was sat just feet away from a laptop computer that suddenly exploded into flames, in what could have been a deadly accident. Guilhem, our astonish...

Dozens of bales of marijuana, with a street value of about $2 million, were found Sunday morning in a Southside Tucson home. It happened on the 500 block of West Tiger Shark. Tucson Police Offic...

Those who plan to film a hostage scene might want to make it obvious that it's a simulation and not the real deal. That may the lesson that an independent film crew learned over the weekend after L...

In a rare instance, Apple Computer Inc.'s iconic iPod music player surpassed beer drinking as the most "in" thing among undergraduate college students, according to the latest biannual market research...

In an unusual twist on the eternal struggle between man and machine, a very fat German man sustained only light injuries after he fell off his bicycle and was run over by a car. His extra padding h...

On April 28, Devin Adair, a healthy, 21-year-old tight end for the University of Tulsa's football team, mysteriously died after spending a week in the hospital. While it was obvious that he was ver...

While most of Germany is fascinated by the World Cup, a small corner of the country is watching a very different drama unfold - a bear hunt. A brown bear has killed 20 sheep in the Bavarian Alps si...