It's one of the deadliest imaginable poisons, a radioactive substance about 100 billion times as deadly as cyanide -- and a Web site run by a physicist and flying saucer enthusiast offers to sell you a trace amount of it for $69 and send it via the U.S. Postal Service or UPS.

Lethal Industrial Chemical Just $69.95

The questions of a 13 year old science prodigy helped launch an investigation into the safety of airplane tap water. With his small thermal cooler packed with petri dishes, filters, agar, vials and a syringe, Zach took samples of water from the airplane's galleys and lavatory taps. He tested the waters on nine different flights and found seven were contaminated with E.coli, fecal coliform or salmonella. In one, he even found insect eggs.

Boy Finds Bacteria, Eggs in Airplane Water

A University of Manitoba researcher knows where there's a magnet so strong it could suck the coins from your pocket from as far away as the moon or rearrange the molecules in your body. But have no fear, SGR 1806-20 is a rare form of neutron star located 40,000 light years away from the earth and the bursts of energy it emits that reach this far cannot penetrate our atmosphere.

Giant Magnetic Star Sucks Spare Change

Ecstasy could help people with Parkinson's disease, a study suggests. Researchers in the UK have found the drug can help to reduce the uncontrollable arm and leg movements associated with the condition.

Ecstasy Could Aid Parkinson's Patients

US scientists claim to have found evidence that brain structure influences sexual preference in sheep. They say a region of the brain involved in sexual behaviour is different in "gay" rams which prefer to mate with other males.

Sheep Study Poses Sexuality Questions