Since we now have our first experiment demonstrating that time is an emergent quantum phenomenon , it's about time we rounded up some in...

Folks, I was there in those ancient days of computing yore, and reading pixels off the screen for collision detection was exactly how I di...

That's a normal-sized person on the floor of the place. The storm sewer system underground in Saitama, Japan , is one of the largest i...

I know this isn't the first time this has been done, but the town of Rjukan, Norway, is installing mirrors on top of local mountains...

 ...it might only be a mechanical "digesting" duck. Such was one of the iconic inventions of the dawn of the mechanical age, ...

Roy Sullivan got into the Guinness Book of World Records as having been struck by lightning seven times - and survived them all! This was...

A NASA / DARPA plan is underway to launch a "100-year" spaceship for deep space exploration. But while that's interesting of i...

A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder : "It is proposed that happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder a...

You wouldn't think that mathematics, as a field, would attract that many fringe-living crackpots - at least not as much as, say, medicin...

Sorry, Robert A. Heinlein, cats just aren't a good mix for space-faring cultures. More:

TIL folks of a few centuries ago believed that sperm cells contained little tiny people, perfect replicas of the humans they would become....

Every now and then I like to touch base with the robotics field just to see if their inventions are getting either any more useful or any le...

The answer turns out to not only be fascinating, but a nice little cottage industry. Ecosphere is a company that sells just such an item:...

"Hermit crabs are not really classed as crabs due to the fact that they do not own their own shell." "The shape of the s...

Geneticists and doctors are flipping over studying her genetic makeup, looking for the possible "Methusalah" gene that led to t...

Even if you're seen it before, you can't get tired of watching it.

Verkhoyansk, in the Sakha Republic of Russia, is within the Arctic circle and considered close to the coldest pace on planet Earth, being...

Manhattanhenge is what happens when the sun lines up perfectly with the concrete-canyon streets of New York City. Due to the angle of ...

Scientists discover a group of quasars out there lurking in the universe that defies all laws of physics as we know them so far, simply be...