FameDaddy 'celebrity sperm bank' revealed to be an elaborate hoax
A comedy show in the UK has just pulled off a rather well executed prank. It all got started earlier this week when Dan Richards, the "CEO" of a fake company called FameDaddy, appeared on a major...
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Six scientists convicted of manslaughter for failing to warn citizens about...
Six Italian scientists and one government official face six-year jail terms for failing to warn citizens about the ravaging effects of the L'Aquila 6.3 magnitude quake that killed 309 people in 2009....
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How a poop transplant could someday save your life
A recent Henry Ford Hospital study has shown the effectiveness of an unconventional therapy in which donated human stool can be used treat the deadly and contagious Clostridium difficile (C. diff)...
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Could injecting yourself with blood of the young reverse the aging process?
It would appear that the Slovak-Hungarian "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory may have been on to something: Researchers have shown that it is possible to reverse cognitive decline in old mice by...
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Geneticists create mice that find the smell of landmines irresistible
Scientists at Hunter College in NYC have genetically engineered mice to be 500 times more sensitive than normal to the smell of TNT. And because they're attracted to the smell, the researchers hope...
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Miss Universe contestant petitions World Health Organization to remove...
Many of you will remember Jenna Talackova, the Canadian Miss Universe nominee who had to fight for her right to compete at last year's pageant because she's transgendered (she won the appeal and...
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Scientists construct the most accurate model of a Neanderthal yet — and he...
Anthropologists in the UK have constructed a remarkably life-like model of a Neanderthal man from a 70,000 year-old skeleton that was discovered in France over a century ago. In 1909, scientists...
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Einstein's "I don't believe in God" letter has sold on eBay — and you're not...
A handwritten letter penned by Albert Einstein shortly before his death in 1954 has sold to an unknown online bidder for $3,000,100.00. In the so-called "God Letter," Einstein touched upon such themes...
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New research suggests premenstrual syndrome is a myth
Women who feel moody or grouchy before getting their periods shouldn't blame it all on their hormones, say researchers from the University of Toronto. According to a new meta-analysis of PMS studies,...
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New "vitrification" technique allows women to freeze their eggs for future use
A report published by the Practice Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) has declared that the experimental phase of a human egg freezing technique is now over and that...
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Computer simulation confirms it was grandma who gave us longer lifespans
Evolutionary biologists have theorized for some time now that grandmothers are responsible for our relatively long lifespans. The idea is that, by virtue of caregiving grandmothers, daughters were...
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The most spectacular wild animal photos of the year
The winners of the 2012 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition have been announced — and this year's crop is expectedly great. The competition, which is now in its 48th...
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How to get inside the mind of a serial killer
Based on the wild popularity of shows like Dexter and CSI, it would seem our fascination with the ultra-creepy criminals called serial killers knows no bounds. But why do these unusual murderers...
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Meet Cheops: A satellite whose only job is to search for habitable planets
It doesn't look like much, but once operational, this little satellite could serve as a key tool in the search for extraterrestrial life. Called Cheops, short for CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite,...
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Physicists demonstrate an actual tractor beam in the lab
It seems like we're getting closer to the Star Trek future by leaps and bounds these days. We recently learned that a NASA scientist has set his sights on building a warp drive, and now news has come...
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How to eat a Triceratops in four easy steps
It was probably the most fearsome battle to ever take place in the animal kingdom: The super-apex predator Tyrannosaurus versus the heavily armored Triceratops. Based on the fossil records,...
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Scientists discover living power cables made from bacteria
Three years ago, scientists discovered electric currents running through the seabed — but they had no idea what was causing it. But now, researchers from Denmark and the United States believe they...
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Pentagon offers $2 million to the creator of the best autonomous rescue robot
DARPA, the Pentagon's techno-happy think tank, has announced a contest to spur the development of robots that could lend a helping hand during an emergency. The competition involves several tracks —...
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World's first commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore
The prospect of growing crops in vertical farms directly inside of cities has been on the collective wish-list of environmentalists, sustainable developers, and futurists for quite some time now. And...
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What you need to know about the upcoming 'Frankenstorm'
Folks out on the East coast of the United States and Canada are bracing themselves for what could be a remarkably severe storm, one that has been dubbed 'Frankenstorm' on account of its tripartite...
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