Dolphins create a raft with their bodies to prevent an injured companion from...
Dolphins seem to be all over the news these days. Just last week we told you about a pod of sperm whales who adopted a malformed bottlenose dolphin, and how a dolphin tangled up on a fishing hook...
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Why you should starve yourself a little bit each day
We've been told since we were children that we need to eat three square meals a day. But new research shows that we don't need to be eating throughout the course of the day. And in fact, it might even...
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These exceptionally rare color photographs show Paris at turn of the 20th...
Back in 1903, the Lumière Brothers invented autochrome technology, an innovative photographic technique that allowed for extraorinarily vivid color images. Now, while some of these rare photographs...
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This handsome sea creature is where crocodiles came from
Introducing Tyrannoneustes lythrodectikos, a marine super-predator that lived over 163 million years ago. It looks like a cross between a dolphin and a crocodile — and for good reason. Scientists say...
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Bacteria and fungi living 30,000 feet above the Earth could be affecting the...
Microorganisms have been found in virtually every corner of the Earth, from deep sea volcanoes to the tops of frozen mountains. They've also been discovered high up in the atmosphere — but scientists...
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Iran sends a monkey into space, is mortified beyond belief
As if to tell the world that it's blazing a path into the mid-1950's, Iran's state news agency announced on Monday that the country's Defence Department has successfully sent a monkey into suborbital...
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A robotic tail that lets you express yourself like a dog
Japanese inventor Shota Ishiwatari has developed a robotic tail that tracks its wearer's heart rate and wags accordingly. Called "Tailly" — worst name ever — the venture project has its own...
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A chandelier made from petri dishes that actually grows bacteria
Check out this highly original light fixture developed by MADLAB called Bacterioptica. Its spaghetti-like structure consists of over 15,000 feet (4,572 meters) of fiber optic cables that are attached...
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New $1.6 billion supercomputer project will attempt to simulate the human brain
In what is the largest and most significant effort to re-create the human brain to date, an international group of researchers has secured $1.6 billion to fund the incredibly ambitious Human Brain...
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A ring of illuminated ice crystals encircle an Alaskan moon
Our sun isn't the only object in the sky that can produce spectacular optical effects. Take this photograph taken by Sebastian Saarloos on a cold, starlit Alaskan night. This is what's called a...
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5 Essential Frank Herbert Novels That Aren't About Dune
Frank Herbert's Dune saga — a six book series that many consider to be one of the greatest ever written — has completely overshadowed many of his other works. But by the time he died in 1986, Herbert...
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New definition of the "Goldilocks Zone" puts Earth right on the edge of...
It seems that every week, we hear about a new exoplanet that's located smack-dab within its solar system's habitable zone — that warm and cozy Goldilocks area that's suitable for the emergence of...
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A baby gorilla has just been born at the Twycross Zoo in the UK!
The Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire, U.K., has just announced the birth of an endangered Western Lowland gorilla. Born to parents Ozala and Oumbi on January 3, the yet-to-be-named baby's gender is...
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A monster truck that pounds the ground to simulate earthquakes
Geologists in New Zealand have a new tool to help them measure the effects of earthquakes. It's called T-Rex, a 64,000 pound (29,000 kilogram) shaker truck that's being provided by the U.S. Network...
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Condoman is back to promote safe sex — and this time he's got help
Back in the late 1980s, a queer indigenous sex education group called the 2 Spirits Project, along with Queensland Health in Australia, launched a comic book series chronicling the exploits of...
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How do owls twist their heads all the way around without dying? At last we know.
You probably know that owls can rotate their heads a remarkable 270 degrees in either direction. It's practically their trademark — but it's a move that by all measure should result in a massive...
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How soon before we can start mapping the surfaces of distant planets?
To date, astronomers have catalogued over 860 exoplanets. If that wasn't remarkable enough, scientists have also been able to determine the atmospheric composition of many of these planets by...
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A compact mecha-suit for battling pocket-sized xenomorphs
Several years ago we told you about ActiveLink's Power Loader, a mecha-like exoskeleton that looked like something right out of Aliens. Now, following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear...
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Scientists record the first video of thoughts forming in the brain
Japanese researchers have recorded a real-time video of thoughts forming in the brain of a live animal as it stalks its prey. The breakthrough was made possible by using zebrafish — a species with a...
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Soon, 3D printers could be building houses on the Moon out of lunar dust
London-based design firm Foster+Partners aims to partner-up with the European Space Agency, and build structures on the Moon from the regolith found on the surface. The inflatable scaffolding would be...
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