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Secret Scientists Claim to Create Rain in Arab Desert

A secret scientific program to control the weather has seen artificially created storms rain down on the Middle Eastern desert. Recent reports say Swiss scientists working for the ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi last year successfully created 52 rainstorms in a usually arid region of the United Arab Emirates, using...

Sega Brings Gaming to the Bathroom With Urine-Controlled Video Game

Some people say wasting time on video games is a way to flush your life down the toilet. In Japan, those people would be right. Sega has just broken the seal on a new style of gaming that brings the action to the bathroom. The gaming company is planning to install above public urinals Toylets that allow restroom users to...

Microsoft's Avatar Kinect: How Close Will Encounters Get?

Chat rooms are getting a little more real. With the new "Avatar Kinect," Microsoft says it will be able to use its camera to scan in a user's body and then put it in a virtual room with other people's avatars that will be able to talk, gesture and even raise their eyebrows, just like the real people controlling them. But...

Giffords' Astronaut Husband to Command Last Shuttle Flight

Critically wounded congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is married to a man who's even more of a high flier than she is. Mark Kelly is one of NASA's most prominent astronauts and is assigned to command the last scheduled flight of the space shuttle. Kelly, 46, has flown on the shuttle three times since joining NASA in 1996....

Mother Nature's Cleanser May Help Study of Global Warming

Scientists have long known about the atmosphere's ability to cleanse itself of nasty pollutants such as benzene and methane. But they haven't always understood how nature's cleanser worked. Now, thanks to a new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they do. The cleanser, a chemical substance known...