Students all across the United States, United Kingdom and even Australia and India, are joining a new trend - organic gardening in school. Their schools have their own gardens in the backyards, where students, under the guidance of their teachers and parent volunteers, grow and cultivate vegetables and fruits, which are used for snacks and sometimes even lunch....

As the holiday season starts, a lot of us are getting ready to board airplanes to go visit family and friends across the country. While we take airplanes for granted today, imagine what life would be like if the Wright brothers hadn't dreamed of building the first passenger plane....

If you thought the fireworks at the opening of the Summer Olympics in Beijing were spectacular, you will be even more amazed by the ones staged for the party held in Dubai last night, to celebrate the opening of the $1.5 billion Atlantis Resort....

Talk about the ultimate green building. This hotel houses and entertains guests all winter and then as summer approaches and the temperatures rise, it simply melts into one giant puddle, only to be re-built, the following year....

Kyle Lograsso is a normal six-year old with an extraordinary talent for golf. With a stroke that resembles that of golf maestro Tiger Woods, he is being hailed as a prodigy in the golfing world. What makes his talent even more remarkable, is the fact that this spunky youngster can see with only one of his eyes!...

A scrabble game usually conjures images of a quiet evening by the fireplace, where the most excitement is a heated argument about whether the word composed is legitimate. However, the pictures below will change your perception of the game forever....

Yesterday, Mr. Barack Obama became the first African-American President-elect in the 232-year history of the United States of America. While that made headlines everywhere, what is not as well known, is the fact that in January 2009, his daughters Malia (10) and Sasha (7), will be amongst the youngest kids to ever reside in the White House....

If you live close to an ocean, you have probably seen seen the latest trend in water sports - Kitesurfing or Kiteboarding, a sport, which harnesses the power of both, the wind and water, providing a thrill few other sports can match....

What will Formula One racing cars look like in the year 2025? - That was the question posed to automakers at the fifth annual LA design challenge. Dubbed 'Motorsports 2025', the competition invited car manufacturers to come up with a design of the ultimate racing car....

If you happened to be near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on Saturday afternoon, you may have spotted a white object flying across the clear blue skies - kind of like a Goodyear blimp with a small school bus attached to it....

What began as a one-day hiking trip to Mt Adams, Washington's second highest mountain, ended up being a five night ordeal for an Oregon man, who had to eat ants, centipedes and even spiders, in order to survive....

Though oceans make up over seventy percent of our Earth, we know more about the surface of Mars than we do about the deep bed of the ocean floor and the amazing life it sustains. In an attempt to learn more about some of the mysteries that lie in our deep dark seas, four divers recently completed a diving expedition across all the oceans of the world....

Astronomers have found what they believe is the hottest exoplanet. Called Wasp 12-b, this charcoal black planet with temperatures exceeding 2,200 degrees Celsius (4,000 degrees Fahrenheit) is hotter than some stars, and about half the temperature of our own star - the Sun....

For most of us scaling the peak of Yosemite's , El Capitan once in our lifetime, would be achievement enough - but not for speed climber Hans Florine. He has been climbing the sheer cliff over and over again since 1991, trying to out do himself each time - and Sunday was no exception....

While there are more than 20 Ironman competitions held around the World, none compares to the Hawaiian Ironman, which took place in the city of Kona, last weekend. Now in its 30th year, this grueling one-day event is considered the toughest and most prestigious of all Ironman races....

Building Castells or human towers is an age-old tradition in Spain. Believed to have been started by dancers in the 18th century, it is now a part of the Spanish culture, especially for the residents of the region of Catalonia in North East Spain....

The Nyaru Mentang Center, located on the Indonesian side of Borneo, is home to more than 600 orphaned Orangutans. Here these infants, all victims of deforestation and illegal poaching, are taught to fend for themselves in the wild, a process that takes about eight years....

Last weekend, thousands of Bay Area residents waited patiently in lines, for as long as five hours, to be among the first to catch a glimpse of the newly renovated California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park....

If the Spaceward Foundation is successful, Space Shuttles may become a thing of the past - Instead Astronauts and the rest of us will simply take an elevator to Space. Though initially the elevator will transport only cargo, the ultimate goal is for Space to become a tourist destination....

Miners at the Letseng Mine in Lesotho, South Africa found a 478-carat diamond earlier this week. While this is the 20th largest rough diamond ever to be found, once cut, it could be the largest single round diamond in history....

It looks like something one would expect to see at Hogwarts, Harry Potter's school of Withcraft and Wizardry. However, this unusual clock, which cost $2 million USD, is very real and was recently unveiled with much fanfare at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge by World famous professor, Steven Hawking....

46-year old Steve Colligan from Manchester, England who calls himself an 'Adventure Unicyclist' is about to embark on the most difficult and demanding ride of his life....

Earlier this week, the Zoological Society of London released photos of the Okapi, an animal that was last sighted in the wild 50 years ago, and had until now never been photographed in its natural environment. The rare photos were caught by trip-wire cameras set up in the Republic of Congo's, Virumga National Park, one of three areas these shy animals can be found....

Eleven-year twins Gunner and Hunter Greer, are two happy sixth graders this week. They have just been declared winners of the 2008 INC. Magazine's 'Best Lemonade Stand Contest'. In addition to the fame, they also received a $1,000 USD Savings Bond and a Nintendo DS Game....