Pupil gains marks for exam expletive

What the ....?"A student who scribbled an expletive on an English language exam paper was awarded 7.5 percent for accurate spelling and effective communication, The Times newspaper reported on Monday.The pupil, who...

Can you snap me now? It's a turtle-to-turtle wireless network

Two teams of researchers with seemingly divergent areas of interest have come together for a techie-meets-nature experiment in Massachusetts. The researchers are simultaneously studying new wireless technology and...

'Mona Lisa' mystery solved

"Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo, has long been seen as the most likely model for the sixteenth-century painting. But art historians have often wondered whether the...