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A storm on Saturn so huge that it wrapped around the entire planet
Cassini has captured something NASA scientists have never seen before: A massive thunder-and-lightning storm that wrapped itself around Saturn creating a seamless ring around the planet. But when the...
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A future Antarctic research station that can walk over the ice
Scientists looking to set up research stations on Antarctic ice-sheets have a problem. The ice moves toward the ocean at a rate of a quarter mile each year. Not only that, ice and snow quickly...
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DNA from Canadian family confirms identity of King Richard III's remains
University of Leicester archaeologists announced today that it is "beyond reasonable doubt" that a skeleton found last year does indeed belong to King Richard III. To make the confirmation, scientists...
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A bacterium that turns toxic chemicals into solid gold
Canadian scientists have discovered a tiny alchemist in disguise, the bacterium Delftia acidovorans. When this microbe is infused within a toxic mixture of water-soluble gold, it excretes a molecule...
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What is the purpose of the Universe? Here is one possible answer.
The more we learn about the universe, the more we discover just how diverse all its planets, stars, nebulae and unexplained chunks of matter really are. So what is all this matter doing in our...
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Jared Diamond earns criticism for suggesting tribal people are in a 'state of...
Things are getting tense between sociobiologist Jared Diamond and the campaign group Survival International over recent claims made in Diamond's new book, The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn...
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Ahmadinejad wants to be the first Iranian in space
Should all go according to plan, Iran will send its first astronaut into space by 2020 and put a man on the Moon by 2025. The country certainly appears to be serious; last week they launched a monkey...
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Astronomers Say Super-Earths Are Actually Mini-Neptunes
Among the 860 exoplanets documented so far, a good portion of them are so-called super-Earths — planets that feature a mass greater than Earth's, but lower than our solar system's smaller gas giants,...
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Richard III identified? Not so fast, say DNA experts
Yesterday's big news was the announcement from Leicester University researchers saying they successfully identified the bones of King Richard III — a conclusion they proclaimed was "beyond a...
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Neanderthals may have mostly died out before Homo sapiens came to Europe
An updated radiocarbon dating technique has thrown our conceptions of when Neanderthals died out into question. A new paper in PNAS is suggesting that Neanderthals disappeared considerably earlier...
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2,300 Year-Old Golden Wreath Found On Head Of Buried Body In Greek Subway Dig
Subway construction workers in Thessaloniki, Greece, have uncovered a golden olive branch that dates back approximately 2,300 years. Located at what will someday be the Republic Station stop, the...
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How Mark Changizi conquered colorblindness with glasses
A pair of researchers from 2AI Labs have developed a wearable eyeglass device that effectively cures red-green color blindness. Called O2Amps, the technology works by leveraging our capacity to see...
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The remarkable story of a Russian family cut off from all human contact for...
The Smithsonian has put together a fascinating and almost unbelievable account of a Russian family of six who managed to avoid all human contact for four decades — a period of self-imposed exile that...
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This is easily the cutest tree frog we've ever seen
Check out this gorgeous photograph of a Red Eye Tree Frog taken by Trevor Owen. The photo earned him a top 50 spot in consideration of Sony's upcoming World Photography Awards for 2013 — a contest...
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New Canadian coin features the incredibly badass Quetzalcoatlus — and it...
As part of its 'Prehistoric Creatures' series, the Royal Canadian Mint is releasing a super neat new quarter featuring the awkwardly majestic Quetzalcoatlus — a pterosaur that lived during the Late...
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4.5 Billion Potentially Habitable Planets May Orbit Red Dwarfs In Our Galaxy
When we look up into the starry sky at night, we only see a small portion of what's really up there. Red dwarfs comprise nearly 75% of all the stars in the Milky Way, yet they remain invisible to the...
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A 62 year-old wild albatross has hatched a healthy chick — for the 35th time
Tracked by scientists since 1956, a Laysan albatross dubbed "Widsom" has hatched a healthy chick at the tender age of 62. The (apparently) elderly bird has now successfully given birth for the sixth...
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Dalai Lama says we need a 'global system of secular ethics'
Back in September the Dalai Lama told his Facebook friends that "grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate," and that religion alone cannot foster values such as integrity and compassion....
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Two hobbyists create a DiY prosthetic hand for a 5-year-old boy in South Africa
A special effects artist and woodworker living hundreds of miles apart have pieced together a prosthetic hand for a 5-year-old South African boy who was born without fingers on his right hand. Using a...
View ArticleA chatbot's hilariously nonsensical script has been turned into a short film
A few weeks ago we predicted that the day is fast approaching when a machine will be able to write a scifi novel or a short story. Well, despite the short film presented here, we're still sticking to...
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