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Have we broken Olympic records for the last time?
With the 2012 London Games fast approaching, sports fans and pundits alike are wondering how many records athletes will break this year. And it's hard to blame them — after all, world records were...
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Why the son of an Australian forklift driver may be the rightful heir to the...
Either someone's been reading too much Game of Thrones — or Prince Harry could really have a serious rival for the British crown. Last month, a 71 year-old Australian forklift driver passed away. Now,...
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How An Alien Invasion Inspired Kevin J. Anderson to Start Writing Science...
Kevin J. Anderson is the prolific author of over one hundred novels — 47 of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists. He has over 20 million books in print and has won...
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Lifting weights slows down memory loss
A surprising number of studies are showing how important exercise is to staving off the effects of aging, including cognitive decline. What these discussions never include, however, are descriptions...
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What may be the world's first cybernetic hate crime unfolds in French McDonald's
Steve Mann, the "father of wearable computing," has been physically assaulted while visiting a McDonalds in Paris, France. The Canadian university professor was at the restaurant with his family when...
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Contact with Curiosity may be lost during its descent to the Martian surface
As NASA prepares for the August 6 landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars, its scientists have made the disturbing realization that communication will likely be lost during its harrowing seven minute...
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An aquatic robot that devours plastic junk in the ocean
Autonomous drones typically get a bad rap, but a new design by Elie Ahovi actually looks like it could be genuinely helpful. Concerned about rising levels of plastic waste in the oceans, Ahovi put...
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Orb web spiders become better fighters without their massive genitals
It appears that Varys "the Spider" from Game of Thrones may be onto something. In what appears to be a very mixed blessing, castrated male orb spiders are far more agile and energetic than their fully...
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What’s on the menu for Mars-bound astronauts?
While we have a pretty good idea what the first humans will eat on Mars, we're a little less certain about what their meals will look like on the way there. Alas, because there are no drive-throughs...
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Biologists now say that red tide algal blooms could be the ‘killer of the...
Scientists have long known that so-called red tide phytoplankton is toxic to marine life, but new research from the University of Connecticut is suggesting that it's actually far deadlier than we...
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Greenland's Ice Sheet Melting Faster than We've Ever Seen
It was just yesterday when we showed you what would happen if you got too close to a melting glacier in Greenland — a disturbing glimpse of what's becoming a regular fixture in that part of the world....
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Scientists finally figure out why the Pioneer probes appeared to defy the...
It was a mystery that threatened to overturn over a hundred years of scientific canon. How was it that both Pioneer spacecraft were traveling slower through space than predicted by physics? The...
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How Autism is Changing the World for Everybody
There's not much doubt that autism, along with Asperger Syndrome, is finally becoming accepted as a normal part of the human fabric. Even if some people still see autism as a condition that needs to...
View ArticleBrilliant new computer simulation shows how the Milky Way formed after the...
As surprising as this may sound, physicists and astronomers aren't entirely sure how spiral galaxies like the Milky Way got their exact shape. Any attempts to generate a spiral galaxy from scratch...
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Genetically modified apples won’t turn brown when you slice them
Good news for people who like to take a bite out of an apple, and then just leaving it sitting on the kitchen counter for the rest of the day: A small Canadian company called Okanagan Specialty Fruits...
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How Gödel Saved Mark Changizi from Physics
Evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi is obsessed with asking the question, "why?" — and as a scientist, it's served him well. His questioning of virtually everything has led him to investigate...
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Why both men and women's eyes are drawn to women's bodies
A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is suggesting that both men and women are guilty of objectifying females. Because your brain perceives an object as being...
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Are Olympic athletes really mutants?
Athletes who perform at the elite level aren't like the rest of us. Their feats of strength, accuracy, and endurance often appear superhuman — which probably explains why we enjoy watching them so...
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Scientists use light to control monkey brains
Optogenetics, a brand new field of research in which living, cortical neurons and other cells can be manipulated or controlled with optical technology (namely fiber optic cables), has been heralded as...
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What did Vikings really look like?
The cliched image of Vikings as a horn-helmeted warrior race of snarly Scandinavian marauders is so indelibly cemented in our psyches that we intuitively know it couldn't possibly be true — which...
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