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Want to save a lot of money around the house? Buy a 3D Printer

A 3-d printer can make anyone at least 1000% return on investment over five years.

London to introduce £10 ($12) vehicle tax for polluting cars

The announcement comes after a disastrous couple of months for London in terms of air quality.

17 Unrealistic Creatures That Actually Exist

A celebration of biodiversity on our planet.

Cyclists in Latvia show just how much space a car occupies on the road

Do you know what's worse for the environment than driving a car? Driving alone.

Ontario, Canada, to start piloting basic income project

Out of all the ideas to end global poverty, the simplest seems to also be more effective: governments just handing out money to people.

Bizarre life forms found living in Mexican crystals

Geologists have made a shocking discovery in a crystal-rich cave in Mexico.

Landsat satellite spots sunken shipwrecks in coastal waters

An estimated 3 million shipwrecks are scattered across the planet’s oceans.

Dystopia today: Official German watchdog tells parents a doll might be spying on their children

Technology is evolving faster than we can adapt to it.

LSD gets stuck in your brain -- literally. This could help us develop better (health) drugs

A new study sheds some light on what drug-takers have known or years: acid trips last a long time.

World's rarest boa rediscovered after 64 years

Locals often kill these snakes, although they're not dangerous for humans.

New study finds a myriad of applications for crab sugar

A review of recent research found that an unexpected mixture could do wonders for bone regeneration and wound healing.

The Hunger Games: Extreme calorie reduction may increase lifespan

Five days of hunger a month could significantly reduce aging and age-related medical conditions.

Historical Misconceptions You Probably Believe

It's very easy to get tricked into believing something that's just not true - here we'll be taking a look at this type of thing.

We could eat 90% of the fish we feed other fish

Warning: I say 'fish' lots of times in this article.

Heatwave kills thousands of flying foxes in Australia

A massive heatwave that hit Australia since last week killed more than a thousand of the endangered species.

Ancient potters carefully recorded the planet's magnetic field -- without even knowing it

Geologists, archaeologists, physicists, and ancient potters - working together to solve one of the Earth's greatest mysteries. Who would have thought?

How Mozart was one of the first "pirates" - illegally transcribing music

The story of how a 12-year-old boy from Vienna snuck out the Sistine Chapel's biggest guarded secret by genius alone.

The oxygen in the oceans has decreased by 2% in the past 50 years

It's like the ocean is having a heart attack.

Why 90% of China's youth suffer from near-sightedness

To say that Asia is having an eye problem is an understatement.

No, absolutely not -- the NOAA did not 'fake' any climate change data

The fact that we are still debating man-made climate change.

Climate change has already harmed more than half of all mammals

It's even worse than we thought.

The story behind human growth hormone

Motivated by the "anti-aging" movement, people are placing their faith into all sorts of alleged cures, but does the science back things up?

Ocean acidification may be even worse for corals than previously thought

Sorry, no good news.

Forget eggs: This terrifying 250-million-year-old dinosaur gave birth to live babies

A remarkable 'terrible-headed lizard' fossil found in China shows an embryo inside the mother -- a clear evidence that some dinosaurs were giving birth to live babies.

The British are slowly accepting that climate change is real

Scotland fares particularly well, better than England and Wales.

How Denmark easily reduced their food waste by 25%

Food waste is running rampant throughout the developed world but we can learn a lot from this Scandinavian country.

Nowhere is safe from mankind -- high levels of pollution found even in the deepest oceans

Nowhere on Earth is safe from humanity's impact.

Legendary Nokia 3310 phone might be coming back - this month

The epic, sturdy, almost historic Nokia 3310 might be making an unexpected comeback.

Jobs, eyes and syphilis: creative posters from the 30s and 40s

Some great vintage public announcement posters to start off your day.

Resurrected drug could help us better fight viruses

Stanford researchers are proposing something different: they want to boost our body's defense systems instead of targeting the virus.

#FossilFriday: 34-million-year old wasp fossil

It's as beautiful as it likely was annoying.

This Deep-Sea Fisherman Posts a Trove of Incredible Creatures

The oceans are as beautiful as they are bizarre.

NASA's mission to search for life on Europa takes shape

If we want to look for extraterrestrial life, Europa might be one of the best guesses in the solar system.

416 beached whales send New Zealanders into frantic rescue mission

It was truly haunting.

NASA team to study Kilauea volcano from ground, air, and space

NASA's bringing out the big guns.

We can achieve the 2C objective, but we have to go 100% renewable energy by 2060

It's an optimistic hypothesis, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility.

A bunch of artificial cells just passed the Turing Test

Scientists have built cells that are not living but are so life-like that other cells can communicate with them.

There are now twice as many solar jobs as coal jobs in the US

Regardless of what one fossil-fuel-lover president may do, renewable energy is thriving in the US.

The Book of Civilized Man: The good manners book from the 14th century

"Don't mount your horse in the hall" and "Do not attack your enemy while he is squatting to defecate." Good tips right here.

John Deere announces first electric tractor

The iconic American manufacturer has announced plans to release its first fully electric tractor.

Female genital mutilation falls sharply in Iraq's Kurdish region, gives hope for eradication

The barbaric practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) has dropped sharply in parts of Iraq.

The Netherlands is shutting down prisons. It doesn't have enough criminals, and prisons aren't effective at rehabilitation

While this is a problem for the country's 1,900 prison workers losing their jobs... it's not such a bad problem to have.

The Amazon Stonehenge: Drones discover hundreds of ancient earthworks in the basin

Large, mysterious earthworks built thousands of years ago were discovered in the Amazon basin.

Scientists develop 'lab on a chip' that costs 1 cent to make

The new technology, which costs just $0.01 to build, could usher in a medical diagnostics revolution.

Personality traits are "contagious among children" -- especially good ones

When preschoolers hang out with each other, they tend to borrow each other's personalities, a new study has found.

Fossilized protein found in 195-million-year-old dinosaur bone

Finding fossilized remains of dinosaurs is one thing, but now, paleontologists have discovered proteins dating back to 195 million years ago.

More evidence that aspirin and ibuprofen don't help with back pain

We should pay more attention to over the counter drugs.

French presidential candidate welcomes muzzled US scientists

Voila!

Federal investigators find persistent cracks in SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets

Space is tough -- and SpaceX is learning that first hand.

We sleep to forget things, new study finds

Sleep is as mysterious as it is vital for our wellbeing.

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