Here we go again. The owner took his snake to Tobe Park, played with it for a bit, then fell asleep. The snake took a deep breath, said ‘Hallelujah!’ and went off.

It is a ball python, which means it’s not poisonous, and rolls up into a ball if it’s frightened.

Researchers studying salmon migration have assumed that the fish use ocean salinity, depth, and temperature to find their way. Recently, the scientists determined that a particular group of salmon were sticking close to the continental shelf current on the west coast of Britain on their way to the Norwegian sea. The usual navigation factors didn’t apply.

So how do they do it? One scientist believes that they look to the stars, the moon, and the sun, and that the earth’s magnetic field also plays a part.

Islands were evacuated and winds reached 75 mph, as Carolina residents worry that Ophelia just might get stronger tonight.

I wonder which comes first, the sugar buzz or the sake buzz.

The concept combat vehicle is diesel-powered, and contains a ‘blast bucket’ crew capsule built to withstand explosive devices such as mines.

The team behind its development included The Georgia Tech Research Institute and NASCAR.

Ori Allon, a PhD student at University of New South Wales has found a fork in the road carved by Google, Yahoo and others. With his Orion search engine, a typical query will show the user text sections of strongly relevant pages. Instead of going through site after site, the user will see material he is looking for right away.

It won a silver in the 2005 competition.

My experiment with putting tomato plants in containers has paid off, or at least has yielded many more tomatoes than previous years. The plants themselves, being mostly heirloom varieties, look terrible, all brown and skeletal, but still have large green tomatoes on them.

Next year, I’ll plant more disease-resistant kinds, and try to remember to cloak the lower branches of them with white row covers to keep the varmints from eating the first tomatoes.

The Dishmaker produces tableware on demand, eliminating the need for all that cabinet space and the dishwasher. And all those hours spent standing at the sink scrubbing.

A team at MIT’s Media Lab created a microfactory that turns out plastic dishes that also recycles the old. Save that dishwasher space though, because the current machine is about the size of a normal-sized dishwasher.

They were rescued by a policeman. If you decide to look through this National Geographic slideshow, be aware there is at least one disturbing image.

Kids who bring their own lunches are less likely to be obese, according to a study by the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

The usually blue-green water turned black over a period of months. Scientists speculated the cause to be an algae bloom.

When inhaled, it caused one little boy to become very sick before the cause of his convulsions and weight loss was discovered.

In a recent study, it was found that those given a supplement containing the bacteria suffered less severe symptoms over a shorter time.

They nabbed him when they found him on the shore, and carted him off to the L.A. Zoo. Poor Reg. But he fought like hell.