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How Flavor Chemists Make Your Food So Addictively Good
If you eat processed foods — which most of us do — there's a good chance you've tasted something that was designed by a flavor chemist. But getting pre-packaged foods to taste exactly the way they do...
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This spectacular proposed South Korean super-city will cost $275 billion
In an effort to boost its tourism industry, South Korea is considering a project that would see the construction of a $275 billion mega-city built on the islands of Yongyu-Muui in the port city of...
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Check out Xenoceratops, the newly identified dinosaur with an ‘alien...
Its bones have sat on a shelf in a Canadian museum since 1958, but paleontologists have finally taken it upon themselves to reconstruct this long-lost cousin of the triceratops. Named Xenoceratops...
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The year's best wildlife photos show nature at its cruelest — and most tender
The good news about the photo above, if anything good can be said about it, is that the Gentoo penguin is already dead. The leopard seal, which had drowned it earlier, had been playing with the corpse...
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Fairy-wren chicks taught secret passwords to thwart dickish cuckoo birds
Cuckoo birds have evolved a nasty habit of laying their eggs in the nests of other bird species, who then unknowingly tend to their young. But as new research published in Current Biology reveals, the...
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Pentagon To Replace Mine-Clearing Dolphins With Robots
The US Navy has used dolphins to help locate — and in some cases destroy — sea mines for nearly 50 years. But now, due to escalating costs and a viable robotic alternative, the Sea Mammal Program is...
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This new artificial limb is powered by rocket fuel
Just wait until Paralympian Oscar Pistorius gets his hands on this: A team of mechanical engineers has created an prosthetic leg that is powered by a special type of liquid fuel called a...
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Scientists call their discovery a 'perfect' invisibility cloak
Functional "cloaking" devices have been around since 2006, but they're far from perfect. All attempts so far have failed to avoid at least some partial light and reflectivity — what has resulted in an...
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Futurist Magazine unveils its predictions for 2013 and beyond
The World Future Society's official magazine, The Futurist, has released its annual top 10 list of forecasts for the coming year and beyond (they typically make their prognostications within a...
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Researchers remove extra chromosome from Down’s syndrome cells. Could a gene...
Scientists from the University of Washington have successfully removed an extra copy of chromosome 21 in cell cultures belonging to a person with Down's syndrome. While the breakthrough is unlikely to...
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Are satellite orbits being compromised by global warming?
As bizarre as this might sound, a new study published in Nature Geoscience is suggesting that global warming is having an impact on objects orbiting around the Earth. According to environmental...
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Man in coma uses his thoughts to tell doctors, 'I'm not in pain'
Back in 2010, neuroscientists confirmed that it was possible to communicate with some patients locked in a vegetative state by using an fMRI scanner. Though limited, the breakthrough suggested that...
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Tim Flach's intimate animal portraits reveal nature's human side
London-based photographer Tim Flach just released a new series of photos called "More Than Human," a gallery of animal portraits that are unlike anything we've seen before. Seven years in the making,...
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Oliver Sacks talks hallucinations, dropping acid — and the time he was...
The U.K.'s Telegraph has just published a remarkably candid interview with neuroscientist Oliver Sacks. For those unfamiliar, Sacks is the colorful and highly engaging author of such books as...
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Are humans getting dumber?
A new study published in Trends in Genetics is suggesting that humans are slowly but surely losing their intellectual and emotional capacities. According to Stanford University's Gerald Crabtree,...
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The U.S. will become energy independent by 2035 — but at what cost?
The International Energy Agency has released a report in which it's predicting that the U.S. will become the world's largest producer of oil by 2020 — surpassing even Saudi Arabia. The IEA report also...
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Oxytocin keeps committed men away from attractive women
Often referred to as the "trust hormone," oxytocin is typically associated with helping couples establish a greater sense of intimacy and attachment. Lesser known, however, is its potential role, if...
View ArticleBjork's new video for 'Mutual Core' makes geology look downright perverted
This stunning new video for "Mutual Core" makes us wish we had Bjӧrk for a geology teacher. Buried waist-deep in sand and surrounded by dancing rocks, she schools us in the ways of seasonal shifts and...
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10 Bizarre Death Rituals from Around the World
The way we grieve, commemorate, and dispose of our dead varies greatly from culture to culture, but some traditions really take funerals to the next level of macabre. Here are 10 of the most bizarre...
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A first: An electric car has been awarded Motor Trend’s top prize
If anyone ever doubted that electric cars were the future, those concerns can now officially be laid to rest. Tesla's luxury Sedan, the Model S, has just captured one of the auto industry's most...
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