A small robot has scaled a 1,739-foot-high cliff of the Grand Canyon in a demonstration of the power of the world's longest-lasting battery. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. 's 6. 69-inch Evolta, which bears the same name as the Panasonic brand AA alkaline battery it used, climbed the cliff on Saturday in six hours and 46 minutes. The robot, which is made of plastic and carbon, used its hands and legs to pull itself up a rope.

A cloned pig bioengineered by Chinese scientists to glow fluorescent green when exposed to ultraviolet light has produced two piglets that also glow in the same way. Liu Zhonghua, a professor overseeing the breeding program of cloned and genetically-altered pigs at Northeast Agricultural University in China's Heilongjiang Province, reported the birth of the special piglets in the school's website on Tuesday. The breeding program is aimed at developing technology to produce pigs whose organs will be transplanted to humans.

An English toy company has manufactured dolls that resemble teddy bears and other plush toys, as road kill. The dolls feature the complete gory image, including eyes popped out, and guts spilled.

What can about $30 million buy you these days? How about your very own copy of the basis for Western civil rights - the Magna Carta. Auction house, Sotheby's, will put a genuine copy of one of the earliest versions of the Magna Carta up for bidding in December, after the historical document leaves the National Archives in Washington.

The internationally famous pair of cute-to-cuddle polar bear Knut and his keeper Thomas Dorflein will no longer perform for the public. The announcement was made by the Berlin Zoo on Monday less than four months after the snowy white polar bear made it first public appearance in March. "Mr. Doerflein's safety counts first of all, of course," zoo spokeswoman Regine Damm told the AP adding that it was high time to associate the 7-month-old Knut with other bears than exposing him to people.