A team from North Carolina State University found that the newly improved cockroaches had a "reorganized" sense of taste, making them perceive glucose used to coat poisoned bait as bitter rather than as sweet.

Vietnamese fireworks fans may have a noiser Tet than usual: the Ministry of Public Security intends to allow individuals to buy and set off "quiet" fireworks for the 2014 Lunar New Year, a first since fireworks were outlawed 18 years ago.

Scientists have found why the white tiger is white but still has black stripes.

Dominique Venner, 78, shot himself at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Tuesday.