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Scientists Now Uncertain About Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
An experiment conducted at the University of Toronto has thrown a fundamental aspect of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle into doubt. For decades, we've believed that you can't measure a quantum...
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Rash of demonic possessions in Poland gives rise to 'Exorcist Magazine'
Business is good in Poland for priests who are skilled in the arts of demonic extrication. The country is in the midst of an exorcism epidemic (or boom, depending on how you feel about it.) And this...
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How Invasive Snakes Have Turned Guam Into a Spider-Infested Horror Show
Back in the 1940s, the highly invasive brown treesnake was accidently introduced to the island of Guam. In just four decades, these snakes had wiped out 10 of 12 native bird species, with the...
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One Way That Bird Brains Could Be Superior to Mammal Brains
Mammals are unique in that they're the only animals whose brains feature a neocortex — a recently evolved structure that's responsible for higher order functioning like conscious thought, sensory...
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New project aims to upload a honey bee's brain into a flying insectobot by 2015
Every once in a while, there's news which reminds us that we're living in the age of accelerating change. This is one of those times: A new project has been announced in which scientists at the...
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Why HIV is More Evil Than We Could Have Imagined
A devastating Salmonella epidemic is ravaging parts of sub-Saharan Africa right now — and it appears that HIV gave this rapidly evolving form of Salmonella a major boost. According to a new study, the...
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The $1 Billion Journey to the Mantle of the Earth
In an unprecedented $1 billion mission to reach the Earth's mantle, geologists are set to start drilling 3.7 miles (6 km) beneath the seafloor, to reach the Earth's mantle. And according to project...
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Is this what people will be talking about on Reddit a thousand years from now?
Redditor gonzoblair has produced this fantastically comprehensive and twisted vision of what the front page of Reddit might look like in the year 3012. Click to see larger image. And be sure to...
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The Unintended Consequences Of China's One-child Policy
It has been 34 years since the People's Republic of China introduced their one-child policy, a population control measure that restricts the reproductive practices of married couples. But as the...
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Rise in allergies has nothing to do with exposure to disease
Back in the late 1980s, scientists suggested that the sudden spike in allergy sufferers was the result of living in sterile homes and overzealous hygiene practices. Our immune systems, went the...
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Archaeologists uncover the world’s oldest prosthetic device
Egyptologist have confirmed that an artificial toe found on the remains of a mummy was not for cosmetic purposes, but instead an actual prosthetic device that helped the ancient Egyptian to walk....
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Men with shaved heads appear more masculine, study finds
Advice for guys who are struggling to deal with their receding hairlines: You might just want to shave it all off. A recent study involving three separate experiments has shown that men who shear the...
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Will philosophy unlock the puzzle that is artificial intelligence?
Quantum physicist David Deutsch has penned a provocative and must-read article for Aeon Magazine in which he argues that artificial intelligence might someday be possible — but only if a major...
View ArticleVernor Vinge and Temple Grandin to speak at Singularity Summit 2012
The final list of speakers has been announced for Singularity Summit 2012, an annual futurist confab that brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on such topics as robotics, regenerative...
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An 11 year-old boy has discovered one of the most exquisitely preserved wooly...
Russian media outlets are reporting that an 11 year-old boy named Yevgeny Salinder has uncovered the remains of a wooly mammoth that died about 30,000 years ago. After stumbling upon the extinct...
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How the catastrophe in Syria has turned into a disaster for science
The civil war in Syria is now well into its 18th month, and with it, it has now claimed the lives of over 30,000 people. And as if this conflict wasn't tragic enough, the scope of the fighting has...
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Behold The Tomb of Lady K'abel, Maya Supreme Warrior And Holy Snake Lord
She sounds like the most badass woman to ever rule pre-colonial South America: Queen K'abel of the Maya, one of the greatest leaders of Classic Maya civilization. Archaelogists have known about her...
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Siri's deranged synopses of science fiction films prove that she'll be no...
It has been said that Apple's Siri is an important precursor to more advanced intelligent personal assistants. Eventually, it's thought, we'll be able to have actual conversations with these sorts of...
View ArticleShould we worry about the internet becoming self-aware?
In the classic anime film, Ghost in the Shell, human civilization comes face-to-face with a government-bred intelligence called The Puppet Master that achieves sentience and escapes to the Internet....
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How Felix Baumgartner Will Set the New Skydive Record — and Break the Speed...
Everything is set for this coming Monday's skydive stunt spectacular, in which Felix Baumgartner will attempt to set a new world record for the highest, longest, and fastest freefall in history. Once...
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