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Mississippi Officially Bans Slavery at Last
An associate professor from the University of Mississippi Medical Center has uncovered what is quite possibly the grandaddy of all oversights. Even though the Thirteenth Amendment was adopted 148...
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A mash-up of real-life bad guys with comic supervillains
A quick review of history shows that fiction ain't got nothin' on real life. We've had our fair share of disturbingly diabolical cold-blooded killers, whether they be a dictator, an elusive serial...
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U.S. To Drop Toxic Mice On Guam's Invasive Snakes
Last September we told you about how snakes are turning Guam into a spider-infested horror show. The island's brown tree snake population has reached epic proportions and is now threatening Guam's...
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When a mountain casts its shadow upon the sky
During the autumn and winter months, Mount Rainier, a stratovolcano near Tacoma, Washington, blocks the first rays of the Sun as it rises. The effect is what you see here: An expanding shadow cast...
View ArticleTry as she might, 2-year-old Kayla just can't reach the moon
Poor Kayla. No matter how hard she tries the moon just sits there — tauntingly — just beyond her reach. It's a daily ritual that her father decided to finally capture on video, much to our benefit....
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How to Measure the Power of Alien Civilizations Using the Kardashev Scale
We have yet to make contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. If they're out there — and surely they must be — we haven't the foggiest idea what they might be like. Or do we? Given what we know...
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Earthquakes could kill upwards of 3.5 million people this century
This is the kind of statistic we would expect to see decrease over the coming years. But as the number of humans continues to climb, and as these populations increasingly concentrate themselves in...
View ArticleHow to film an epic New York battle scene without actually being in New York
As hard as this is to believe, very little of The Avengers was shot in New York City, including the epic finale. To pull off the trick, the Industrial Light and Magic crew created an intricately...
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Transplanted Brain Cells Can Outlast The Body's Biological Clock
The problem with cells is that they have an expiry date. They can only replicate so many times before they hit a biologically predetermined limit and sputter out. But a recent study by neuroscientist...
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How much would you pay for a Nobel Prize medal?
Francis Crick, the guy who co-discovered the molecular structure of DNA back in 1953, died nine years ago. Along with James Watson, he won a Nobel Prize for the groundbreaking scientific discovery —...
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We now know the origin of Russia's meteor
The Chelyabinsk meteor may have snuck up on us by surprise, but it didn't take long for a crack team of astronomers from Colombia to figure out where the damned thing came from and the path it took to...
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No, Jose Canseco, 'ancient gravity' did not create the dinosaurs
Early last week, baseball legend Jose Canseco explained gravity to the Internet. He tweeted that "ancient gravity was much weaker" during the time of the dinosaurs, which allowed for their massive and...
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Watch George Dvorsky and Nick Bostrom talking live about risks to the future...
Put your doomsday caps on, everyone. Starting tonight at 9pm EST (6pm PST) to 10pm EST (7pm PST), I'll be on Huffington Post Live talking about existential risks to the future of humanity. I'll be...
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This horrifying Palaeozoic fish had a buzz saw for a face
Whoa, check this thing out. It's almost impossible to believe that such a creature ever existed, but after years of speculation and puzzling over the fossil evidence, researchers from Idaho State...
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11 Emerging Scientific Fields That Everyone Should Know About
There was a time when science could be broken down into neat-and-tidy disciplines — straightforward things like biology, chemistry, physics, and astronomy. But as science advances, these fields are...
View ArticleWatch Neil deGrasse Tyson and Michio Kaku explain E=MC2 to music
Get your geek on folks, this new music video by Symphony of Science tackles a fairly challenging subject: Einstein's theory of mass-energy equivalence, or what's more commonly known as E=MC2. The...
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New theory suggests Lenin died from a rare genetic brain disorder
Vladimir Lenin, the Russian communist revolutionary, died from an apparent stroke at the age of 53. His untimely death has been the subject of much controversy and speculation — but new theory from...
View ArticleCan we measure the size of the Universe?
We know the Universe is big. But just how big is it really? And how could we ever measure something as ephemeral as the cosmos? This new video by the ever-popular Minute Physics takes a stab at these...
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Watch a swarm of aquatic robots assemble into an emergency water-bridge
The idea of creating autonomous robotic swarms is nothing new, a concept that's been demonstrated by GRASP Lab's quadrotors. What needs to happen now is for developers to push the technology forward...
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This virus can steal its host's immune system
Viruses and their hosts are in a perpetual state of evolutionary war. Host organisms try to find ways to get rid of their parasitic interlopers, while viruses develop countermeasures to evade...
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