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Dinosaurs Went Extinct Almost Immediately After Mexican Asteroid Strike
Scientists using a new and highly precise dating technique have concluded that the late Cretaceous asteroid strike in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula coincided almost exactly with the extinction of the...
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SETI Conducts First Ever Targeted Search For Intelligent Life On Earth-Like...
In what is its most targeted search to date, the SETI Institute has scanned 86 potentially habitable solar systems for signs of radio signals. Needless to say, the search came up short (otherwise the...
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A 40,000 year-old sculpture made entirely from mammoth ivory
Behold Lion Man, an ancient figurine sculpted from a mammoth's tusk. Discovered back in 1939, this remarkable ice age piece was initially dated at 32,000 years-old, but a new carbon dating analysis...
View ArticleWatch Chris Hadfield and Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies perform a duet from...
International Space Station commander Chris Hadfield is certainly making the most of his time up there space. This past Friday he teamed up with Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies fame to perform their...
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Marine biologists confirm squid can fly
Scientists have known for quite some time that squid have the capacity for short burst flight, but they've only known this through anecdotal accounts. Until recently, they've never actually been able...
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A Massive New Volcano May Be Forming In The Pacific
A scientist from the University of Utah has confirmed that two continent-sized "thermochemical piles" are slowly converging at the bottom of Earth's mantle about 1,800 miles (2,900 km) beneath the...
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Did dinosaurs produce “milk” for their young?
As if putting feathers on dinosaurs wasn't insult enough, a radical new theory from Paul Else of the University of Wollongong is proposing that dinosaurs produced a kind of milk for their offspring,...
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Zoologists watch as monkey midwife delivers baby
Human labor is long and difficult, so it's only natural that someone be there to lend a helping hand — that's where the midwife comes in. It's not the kind of thing that's typically observed among...
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These creative USB sticks will make your file transfers way more interesting
With the death of floppy drives (you remember those, don't you?), USB memory sticks have become as commonplace and indispensable as mobile phones. But for the most part, they're achingly boring and...
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New DNA analysis suggests Nefertiti was King Tut’s mom
A genetic investigation by French archaeologist Marc Gabolde is threatening to rewrite the history books on two of ancient Egypt's most iconic figures. For years, antiquities experts have assumed that...
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Now's your chance to name two of Pluto's new moons
Astronomers recently discovered two previously unknown moons orbiting Pluto, bringing its total up to five. How this supposed non-planet can have so many moons is beyond me, but whatever. Anyway, the...
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A map showing pollution caused by ships
For many years now, scientists have used satellites to chronicle "ship tracks" — bright and easily visible atmosphere-bound emissions similar to the vapor trails produced by airplanes. But ships also...
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Radiologists fail miserably on the "Invisible Gorilla Test" when screening...
Notice anything weird about this lung scan? If you look carefully you'll notice there's A FREAKIN' GORILLA SHAKING HIS FIST in the top right-hand corner! The scan is a play on the famous invisible...
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I’m Elyn Saks and this is what it’s like to live with schizophrenia
Elyn Saks first started noticing that something was wrong when she was 16. One day, and without reason, she suddenly left her classroom and started walking home. It turned into an agonizing journey in...
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This sea slug has a detachable penis
Sea slugs are weird. But their sexual habits are even weirder. Take Chromodoris reticulata for example. It's a "simultaneous hermaphrodite," meaning it has both male and female sexual organs which it...
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Computers are better at diagnosing and treating patients than doctors
It would seem that no one's immune from the effects imposed by our increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence and robotics — not even doctors. As research from Indiana University has revealed,...
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Cuddlebots can recognize you by touch alone
It appears that an iconic piece of the 23rd century just landed at the University of British Columbia's SPIN Lab. It's called Cuddlebot, and it looks — and even responds — in a way that's eerily...
View ArticleWatch as robots and androids portray themselves in this futuristic stage show
What better way to portray robots and androids on stage than by having actual robots and androids perform their own parts? Such is the thinking behind the Japanese Robot Theater Project. The troupe's...
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Everything You Need to Know About Earth's Close Shave With an Asteroid
On February 15, asteroid 2012 DA14 is scheduled to pay us a visit. The 150 foot (45 meter) rock has no chance of hitting us — but it'll be the closest approach that's ever been observed by...
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Conservationists rescue 150 dolphins from shallow waters, using a baby...
Earlier this month, a pod of about 100 to 150 pantropical spotted dolphins became stranded and disoriented in shallow waters at Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve about 250 km south of Perth, Australia....
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