There will be fewer banana peels to slip on if engineers at a university succeed in figuring out a cost effective way to turn them into cooking fuel.

In other words, people wanting to bake or fry their bananas might soon be able to do that by cooking over a banana briquette fire.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth plans to grow fruit at Balmoral, her Scottish estate, in order to combat rising food costs.

The 82-year-old monarch has asked her gardeners to plant apples, pears, cherries, apricots, grapes and figs, as well as 10 new varieties of roses which will provide fresh cut flowers.

A study by researchers from King's College in London of 800 Britons ages 13 and 14 showed that teenagers of a generation ago were brighter than today's youth.

The survey was based on measurement of understanding of abstract scientific concepts such as volume, density, quantity and weight, with the results placed side-by-side with a similar study made in 1976.

Six students from Rice University in Houston are creating a beer than contains more of the red wine's healthy ingredients that help reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer.

The research team's leader, junior Taylor Stevenson, said they are using genetic engineering to create a beer with a higher resveratrol content.

A steel storage tank full of corn syrup burst Monday causing a wall to collapse and allowing 200,000 gallons of corn sugar water to flow forcefully toward the Mississippi River, knocking railroad cars off tracks in its path.

The incident happened at the Roquette America Inc. plant and authorities are investigating.