A scene from the movie "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"To conceal an object, it might be common sense not to put it under shiny materials; but according to a study, that is exactly what one must do to make it invisible.U.S. scientists have developed a virtually invisible photodetector by covering it with reflective metal, Science Daily reported Monday.Researchers from Stanford University

Technology May 22, 2012

British Olympic hope Jessica Ennis saw her new personal best in the 100m hurdles wiped out on Sunday by an embarrassing blunder by officials who forgot to lay out enough barriers.(AFP)The heptathlete clocked 12.75 sec, 0.04sec faster than her previous best, but it emerged after the race at the City Games in Manchester that only nine hurdles had been set out rather than the regulation 10."I am so a

More Sports May 22, 2012

A Florida university student who designed a Web site for men to pay women $5 to perform "girlfriend-like" tasks said he now has 1,600 users.Cody Krecicki, 22, a student at Edison State College in Fort Myers, said he was inspired by a girl in his class who was working multiple jobs to stay afloat while attending school and came up with Girlfriendforhire.com, the Naples (Fla.) Daily News reported Mo

Technology May 22, 2012

New York City's first million-dollar parking spot -- offering privacy for "a celebrity or a business person who is camera shy" -- is on the market. (Bloomberg-Yonhap News)The private garage at 66 E. 11th St. is "for someone who wants complete privacy," said Prudential Douglas Elliman Vice Chairman Dolly Lenz."You can drive in and not be seen again," Lenz said. "It's for the type of person who find

World News May 21, 2012

The moon slides across the sun, showing a blazing halo of light, during an annular eclipse at a waterfront park in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Monday. (AP-Yonhap News)A partial solar eclipse was witnessed across the world on Sunday and Monday.In Seoul, the event started around 6:23 a.m. and ended around 8:48 p.m., peaking at 7:32 a.m., when 80 percent of the Sun was covered.It was the first time since J

Technology May 21, 2012

Men connect eating meat -- especially muscle meat like steak -- with masculinity, but vegetables were not considered masculine, U.S. scientists found.(MCT)Study authors Paul Rozin of the University of Pennsylvania, Julia M. Hormes of Louisiana State University, Myles S. Faith of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Brian Wansink at Cornell University said several studies showed meat ge

Technology May 18, 2012

A man who had to be cut from a garbage chute in the Russian city of Tyumen told emergency workers he was hiding from his girlfriend. (Courtesy of Tyumen emergency services)The 32-year-old man said he was on the eighth floor of his building when he decided to disappear, RIA Novosti reported. He went into free fall before getting wedged in at the fifth-floor level of the garbage chute. "An eyewitnes

World News May 18, 2012

Paleontologists say they've found fossilized remains of an ancient turtle with a shell the size of a small car that lived 60 million years ago in South America.This is a reconstruction of Carbonemys preying upon a small crocodylomorph. Credit: Artwork by Liz Bradford (UPI)Dubbed Carbonemys cofrinii, or "coal turtle," the fossil was discovered in a coal mine in Colombia, researchers from North Caro

Technology May 18, 2012

A Michigan couple said their family will no longer be eating fast food after the woman's 14-year-old son found a piece of a human finger in his Arby's sandwich. (MCT)Jamie Vail and Joe Wheaton said the woman's son, Ryan Hart, discovered the finger fragment when he bit into his Arby's junior roast beef sandwich at the Jackson restaurant and spit the object out to identify it as a piece of finger, t

World News May 18, 2012