Riggs hardly looks or acts like a beauty king. A 3-year-old male bulldog, Riggs is a drooler with protruding teeth and a penchant for attacking noisy appliances, begging for crumbs and hopping on furniture. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

If you've got little to do this weekend and are interested in incredible tedium, then you could always download what its maker claims is the world's longest mobile phone ringtone. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

Ugly or intriguing? You be the judge in this battle of the aesthetically challenged to find the world's ugliest plant. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Planet Panoramas is all about artistic distortion using a sphere. This artwork utilizes a method called Stereographic Projection to map beautiful panoramas on a sphere. What happens is quite intriguing. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

"The Most Beautiful Machine" is an idea of Claude E. Shannon, who died in 2001. His "Mathematical Theory of Communication" is the fundament of the digital machine. It's a communication based on the functions ON and OFF. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

From Foucault's pendulum to Galileo's experiments and more. Here are the 10 most beautiful physics experiments of all time. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

A Chinese man has become a contender for the title of the world's tallest man, after measuring in at more than 8ft. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

World War I veteran Henry Allingham is the world's oldest man following the death of a 113-year-old in Japan, Guinness World Records has confirmed.

*get off my lawn* picked by bornbad 5 months ago

The world's only transplant recipient of two full arms said the feeling of being whole again was "indescribable". picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Goats were on the catwalk for the Most Beautiful Goat competition in Riyadh, capitol of Saudi Arabia picked by wildminou 1 year ago

If you wanted to visit the world's largest fish tank, you'd have to go to Okinawa, Japan, home of the "Kuroshio Sea," otherwise known as the Churaumi Aquarium. picked by punthe 1 year ago

In an effort to explore the boundary between thermodynamics and quantum mechanics — two fundamental yet seemingly incompatible theories of physics — a team from the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy has created the world's smallest incandescent lamp. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

On June 20 Guinness World Records had announced that Mr Allingham, who celebrated his 113th birthday on June 6, became the world's oldest man after the previous incumbent, Tomoji Tanabe, died in his sleep at his home in Japan, also at the age of 113. picked by kakana 4 months ago

An international team of scientists has identified a nesting population of leatherback sea turtles in Gabon, West Africa as the world's largest. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

The surviving pages of the world's oldest Christian Bible have been reunited — digitally.
"(The book) offers a window into the development of early Christianity and firsthand evidence of how the text of the Bible was transmitted from generation to generation," said Scot McKendrick, head of Western manuscripts at the British Library. picked by Bingo 5 months ago

It's the gateway to one of the world's most pristine aquatic playgrounds, but guests at a Mackay tourist resort were greeted with the sight of excrement bubbling in the front garden after operators ignored warnings about an inadequate sewage disposal system picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

But So Far No M.I.T. Students Have Broken Its Code. It used to be that M.I.T was filled with code-breakers. Part of the movie 'A Beautiful Mind' takes place there and in real life it’s always had close ties with the military and intelligence agencies. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

The findings have emerged from a series of studies of physical attractiveness and its links to reproductive success in humans. In a study released last week, Markus Jokela, a researcher at the University of Helsinki, found beautiful women had up to 16 per cent more children than less attractive women.

*They're all beautiful. picked by kakana 4 months ago

A chili grown in a remote region of northeastern India has been named the world's spiciest by the Guinness World Records. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

13 Most beautiful Digital photos you'll ever see. picked by icemann 3 years ago