Mark Riccobono has become the first blind man in the US to legally drive a car around a racetrack.
In the future vehicles could be made up of parts built using mushrooms and other organic materials.
Michael Disney came across a large black cat as it crossed the road in front of his car in Wales.
How would mankind react to the discovery of alien life ? Have we become too used to the idea to care ?
Historian Carla Glori may have identified the location shown in Da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting.
Scientists at the University of Glasgow have produced the world's smallest Christmas card.
Reindeer in Norway have been fitted with reflectors this year to prevent them from being hit by cars.
A theatre in Chicago is giving Strek Trek fans a treat this Christmas with a production entirely in Klingon.
Sir David Attenborough has returned to Madagascar to discover what happened to the elephant bird.
A man whose legal name is "Lord Jesus Christ" has been knocked down by a car in Massachusetts.
DARPA and Terrafugia are developing a flying humvee to be used by troops in Afghanistan.
Glen Kuban investigates a carving that resembles a Stegosaurus on the Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia.
Everyone experiences a good scare now and again but is it really possible to be scared to death ?
An inventor has built himself an ideallic island in the Carribean from plastic bottles.
New research has suggested that water carried on asteroids is a lot more common than believed.
Australian firm Skylifter is developing an airship that could carry huge loads hundreds of miles.
A driver has set a new world record by driving over 1,500 miles in a car without refuelling once.
Recently discovered letters and postcards have revealed the fierce competition between scientists.
Researchers have found that cartilage in the joints of dinosaurs would have made them a lot taller.
Lorenzo the parrot has become the latest of over 1700 seized by officials having been trained as drug cartel lookouts.