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Is spontaneous combustion for real?
There have been many alleged cases of spontaneous human combustion in history — but such accounts tend to rouse suspicion even among the more open-minded of us. How is it possible, after all, for the...
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Eight things you didn’t know you could do with human sperm
Sperm are single-purposed: They're optimized to get to an egg and inseminate it. But that doesn't mean there isn't more to this cell than meets the ovum. Sperm, along with its travelling companion,...
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Will food shortages force us to become vegetarians?
A new report from the Stockholm International Water Institute is warning that a pending food crisis may force the world's population to adopt a vegetarian diet over the course of the next 40 years....
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New forensic test can predict hair and eye color of suspects
Police looking to identify an unknown suspect often rely upon a technique called criminal profiling in hopes of gaining some potential insight into their psychologies. But now a new forensic technique...
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Researchers grow cyborg tissue that can sense its environment
Scientists at Harvard University have developed a cyborg-like tissue that can facilitate cell growth, while simultaneously measuring the ongoing activity and status of those cells. They did so by...
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Harvester ants use their own internet for hive-mind decision making
Harvester ant colonies are able to decide how many foragers they need to send out of the nest by using a protocol system that's eerily similar to the one IT professionals use to determine how much...
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These 230-million-year-old bugs preserved in amber are the oldest yet
An international team of scientists working in Italy have found the oldest samples of arthropods preserved in amber — a finding that is 100 million years older than previous fossilized samples. The...
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So apparently male circumcision is cool again
An influential American medical organization is overturning recently overturned convention by suggesting that the health benefits of infant circumcision outweigh any risks. According to the American...
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No, we didn't just create a self-aware robot
A number of websites recently reported on a breakthrough in which a robot was alleged to have successfully passed the mirror test. In turn, many of these news sites declared that the machine had...
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Could your mind be reprogrammed while you're asleep?
Researchers have proved that people can be conditioned with behaviors in their sleep — and then exhibit those same behaviors when they're awake, without any memory of the earlier training. While...
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Archaeological dig at Concentration Camp reveals what the Nazis tried to hide
Archaeology is typically associated with the study of ancient history, but a recent excavation at the infamous Sobibor extermination camp in Poland has demonstrated its incredible potential for...
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Why we should reboot the Biosphere projects
The last Biosphere 2 project ended 18 years ago. Correction: The failed Biosphere 2 project ended 18 years ago. That's right, our only real attempt to create an artificial, materially closed...
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Do these male snails have the worst parenting arrangement ever?
Male members of the marine snail species Solenosteira macrospira have it tough. Not only do they take on childcare duties, they also have to care for the offspring produced by other dads. To make...
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Will CAPTCHA-breaking bots soon make it impossible to prove we're human?
Have you noticed that CAPTCHAs are getting more difficult to solve? CAPTCHAs, for those who've never heard of the internet, are those annoyingly ubiquitous prompts asking you to make sense of a...
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Why are human babies so helpless?
When you're born, you have absolutely no defense against predators, and we humans can't really fend for ourselves for years. Why is this? One longstanding theory among evolutionary biologists says...
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This Sun-like star is surrounded by sugar
A team of European and American astronomers have found signs of a simple sugar molecule, glycolaldehyde, in a gas cloud surrounding a young sun-like star. Located 400 light-years away, it's the first...
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Chocolate could protect men from strokes
Not that anyone needs an excuse to eat chocolate, but a recent study from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm is suggesting that eating moderate amounts of chocolate each week may be associated with...
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How Self-Sustaining Space Habitats Could Save Humanity from Extinction
This planet can't protect us forever. Sooner or later, there'll be a catastrophe that renders this world uninhabitable for humans. And when that day comes, we'll need to know already how to live in...
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Scientists develop robot that scans information directly from neurons
Neuroscientists from Georgia Tech and MIT have developed a robotic system that can find and simultaneously record the activity of dozens of neurons in live animals. The breakthrough could help...
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Are the Paralympics a celebration of superhumans, or a modern freakshow?
Check out this commercial put together by Paralympic organizers who are trying very hard to cast the Games and its athletes in a completely new light. Rather than framing Paralympians as being somehow...
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