A very short report from New Scientist Magazine reveals that a study of internet usage provided highly unusual statistics. The data on hundreds of millions of connections failed to result in a normal Bell curve distribution.

A Swiss report on the danger to snowmen from decreasing snowfalls and warmer winter temperatures is confirmed by statistics from around Europe. The shrinking snowman habitat is a potential disaster for future generations of children.

The mother of a five-year-old who was voted out of his kindergarten class is considering a suit against the teacher. The children were allowed to tell the boy everything they disliked about him, and then voted on whether he would stay in the class.

It was the first Olympic Games since the end of WWII, hosted by London, a city barely beginning to recover from the German bombings, with food supplies short, and rationing still in effect. It was a recipe for disaster, a new book explains.

A new series of weekly articles from Scientific American profiles past winners of the Westinghouse/Intel Science Talent Search. Since 1942, the competition has honored some 2,500 high school students for their science projects. Where are they now?

What were Einstein’s beliefs about God and religion? With the public appearance of a letter he wrote the year before his death, the matter would seem to be settled, though probably not to everyone's satisfaction.

In spite of increasing numbers of news reports about deaths from tasering, the weapons are being put into the hands of more and more untrained law officers, and the industry has continued to insist that the devices aren’t dangerous.

In an interesting development, Harun Yahya, the author of the controversial “Atlas of Creation” has been arrested and convicted by a Turkish court of "creating an illegal organization for personal gain." He was sentenced to three years in prison.

Tolerance of unbelievers has never been a strong point with the Catholic Church, so a recent statement by Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, The Archbishop of Westminster, will probably be welcomed by most atheists and agnostics.

Are there objects of desire too pricey even for the fabulously wealthy? It seems that a shaky economy affects even the rich, though that effect is more psychological than financial.