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How British Special Forces used exploding rats to fight the Nazis
During the Second World War, British secret agents were equipped with a number of devices that were armed with explosives, including soap, shoes, bottles of chianti, bicycle pumps, suitcases — and...
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Check out these spectacularly beautiful images of the ocean’s smallest,...
Planet Magazine has published a stunning gallery of some recently discovered sea-based microorganisms. These images of the wondrously bizarre phytoplankton and zooplankton were taken by researchers...
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New simulation is as close to traveling through space as it gets
SpaceEngine is a free space simulation program that allows you to travel through intergalactic space in three dimensions. Starting from Earth, you can journey out into the cosmos and visit all known...
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Astronomers discover an entirely new class of black hole
Scientists working with CSIRO's Australia Telescope Compact Array have found a new kind of black hole that would make Goldilocks quite happy: By not being too big, nor too small, it falls within a new...
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Mind-reading helmet could help interrogators distinguish friend from foe
Criminals and captured enemy combatants who pride themselves on their ability to withstand tough interrogations could be in for a bit of a surprise. U.S. based company Veritas Scientific is developing...
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Artist creates genetically modified Elvis-mouse hybrid
The King may be dead, but his memory lives on in the form of a genetically engineered mouse created by Royal College of Art graduate student, Koby Barhad. The "genetically cloned model" of the late...
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Deaf people use the hearing parts of their brain to sense touch
It's often said that when you lose one sense you heighten the others — and now we have scientific evidence to back it up. New research published in the Journal of Neuroscience has shown that people...
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Choosing the virtual reality experience that’s right for you
We're still several decades away from developing completely immersive computer simulations, but it's not too early to dream about the ways we'll be able to use them. Today we're exploring the...
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Previously classified "X-files" show how seriously Britain considered alien...
Well, it now appears that Mulder and Scully had allies on the other side of the Atlantic. Recently released secret documents by Britain's defense agency has revealed the surprising extent to which the...
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10 Reasons Why Oxytocin Is The Most Amazing Molecule In The World
Though often referred to as the "trust hormone" oxytocin is increasingly being seen as a brain chemical that does a lot more than just bring couples closer together. New research is suggesting that...
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Astronomers discover invisible, starless galaxies predicted by theory
When thinking about how galaxies form, scientists have speculated about large masses of gas that are drawn together to form a kind of embryonic proto-galaxy. But because these supposed objects are...
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Remembering the day when the US nuked its own communications satellite
Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of Telstar 1, the first U.S. communications satellite to relay television signals, phone calls, and fax images through space. But just as the...
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These fish lure unsuspecting mates with genitals camouflaged by fake food
Evolution seems to know no bounds when it comes to shaping organisms in a way that's meant to help them survive and reproduce — a process that often leads to some pretty bizarre characteristics and...
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Could we actually build a robot the size of Pacific Rim's massive Jaegers?
Let's face it, we're all deeply infatuated with gigantic robots, a science fiction staple that includes such memorable mechanical monsters as Voltron, Gundam, the Transformers, the Mighty Morphin...
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Biologists resurrect a 500 million-year-old gene by splicing it with bacteria
In a scenario eerily similar to Jurassic Park, scientists working at Georgia Tech have successfully revived an ancient 500 million-year-old gene by hybridizing it with modern E Coli bacteria. The new...
View ArticleWatch how the US military fights fire with electricity and sound
Traditional fire fighting techniques have relied on dousing flames with water or chemicals. But in an effort to fight fires in combat environments, DARPA has developed a groundbreaking technique where...
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Remembering Private Wojtek, the soldier-bear who fought in World War II
The Second World War has provided a seemingly endless array of fascinating stories — not least of which is the curious tale of an orphaned brown bear who was taken in by the Polish army and made an...
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Scientists uncover the oldest complete human ancestor skeleton yet found
Late last year we reported on the remarkable discovery of a new ancient human ancestor, Australopithecus sediba — a finding that re-wrote the science books. Further research revealed that they were...
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Why did these ‘ghost galaxies’ suddenly stop making stars?
According to predictive models, there should be thousands of ancient and tiny ‘dwarf galaxies' in our neighborhood — but to date, astronomers have found but a few. And those discovered contain...
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Would finding life on Mars create a power struggle on Earth?
There's an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about what might happen if NASA's Curiosity detects signs of actual, living microbial life on Mars. While it might sound incredibly unlikely,...
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