This is the world’s ugliest color, and it’s being put to good use
A color with the appropriately dull name of Pantone 448C has been identified by researchers as the ugliest color in...
Scientists learn to decode prairie dog language – discover they’ve been talking about us
After studying prairie dogs for 25 years, one researcher believes he figured out what prairie dogs are communicating about. He...
NASA picture from the ’60s shows why you should be thankful for computers
Take a moment to consider that the first space flights, both for the Soviets and for NASA, took place way...
#GeoPicture of the day: Amethyst
Evitachoel / Pixabay For all its beauty, amethyst is a fairly common variety of quartz. This here isn't even a...
Young people today are overqualified, underemployed and struggling with debt
Higher qualifications, fewer jobs. What's happening?
700 year-old farming technique may revolutionize African farming and mitigate climate change
It's simple, easy, and they've been doing it for centuries!
Gravitational waves spotted again by researchers
They may be more common than we thought.
It’s the end of big oil as we know it, report concludes
The golden age of black oil is ending says a new report
Why online scammers say they’re Nigerian princes
The Nigerian prince is in trouble!
Children less likely to trust ugly people, study finds
Children judge a book by its cover.
Laser technology reveals huge medieval cities hidden in Cambodian jungle
Who needs Indiana Jones?
This is the first mammal to be driven extinct by global warming
It was a cute rodent, off the northern coast of Australia, on an island by the Great Barrier Reef. Now...
Scientists find first rodent with human-like menstruation cycle
It's good news for us, but perhaps not good news for the rodents.
Norway is now the world’s leading whaling nation
Norway is killing more whales than Japan and Iceland combined.
Watch: the first short film written completely by an AI
It's surreal and it doesn't make much sense, but it's definitely intriguing.
The medical system is taking advantage of you – here’s how
The system is abusing all of us.
It’s not just big oil – big coal is funding climate change denial too
It's a reveal which unfortunately surprises no one.
Teenage boys who show empathy attract 1.8 more girlfriends than boys who don’t
All your girlfriends are belong to me.
Scientists find 2,000-Year-Old Still-Edible Hunk of Bog Butter
‘Theoretically the stuff is still edible - but we wouldn’t say it’s advisable’
Scientists find another way to show that vaccines work: using Google
The fact that people still debate the effectiveness of vaccines is ridiculous.
Archaeologists zoom in on sunken, ancient African metropolis
Rhapta was one of the most prosperous cities on the African coast, and one of the last trading posts of...
There’s a second layer of information in our DNA, researchers find
We're still uncovering the secrets of the building blocks of life.
Studies find “super bacteria” in Rio Olympic venues and beaches
Things are looking bad for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Study shows which celebrities endorse unhealthy foods and sodas
They're using the people we like to sell us things that aren't good for us.
China to build underwater laboratory, 10,000 feet beneath the surface
China is drastically accelerating its efforts to build a deep-sea research platform - but they aren't doing it for the...
Gravity wave breakthrough imminent as NASA and ESA set up unique experiment
It's one of the strangest experiment ever devised, and it may very well revolutionize science.
This 25-year-old carried his artificial heart in a backpack for a year before receiving a transplant
A 25-year-old from the US has been living without a heart for more than a year.
The US is rolling out superhuman hearing for its soldiers
Wearable tech could save the hearing of thousands of soldiers.
Long Island town employs creative strategy to keep mosquitoes away: bats
With a potential ZIka pandemic luring over the Americas, one Long Island town is stepping up to bat.
Major Zika breakthrough could pave the way for a cure
It's just the early stages, but there's a glimmer of hope.
How your relationship changes the way you see other people
Our brain may be downplaying other people to save your relationship.
Rural Africans ate an American diet for two weeks. Here’s what happened
There's just not enough fiber in our diets.
New algorithm will allow us to finally visualize black holes
We may actually get to see a black hole!
This hand-woven computer sent astronauts to the Moon
This is the Apollo Guidance Computer's read-only rope memory. That's right -- memory literally made from hand-woven rope. Depending on...
Magma is building up beneath a town in New Zealand
There's no need to panic though.
Norway to ‘completely ban all petrol powered cars by 2025’
Norway wants to make all cars electric in the next decade.
Underwater ‘lost city’ turns out to be a geological formation
It's way older than divers thought.
The Universe is expanding faster than we thought, new Hubble study finds
Astronomers working with the Hubble telescope have discovered that the Universe is expanding 5-9% faster than expected, and this is...
Universal cancer vaccine moving closer, human trials begin soon
Yes, it's actually happening.
The richest families in 15th century Florence are still the richest families in Florence
The rich really do get richer - a new study found that the richest families in Florence, Italy, have had...
Artificial intelligence should be protected by human rights, Oxford mathematician argues
While robotics and AI research is taking massive strides forward, our social development hasn't really kept up with them.
14 Mind Blowing International Borders From Around the World
Borders often highlight the relationship and differences between different countries, and here are some of the most spectacular and revealing...
SpaceX perfectly lands a rocket on a floating barge. The footage will take your breath away
Few things in life can claim to be truly breathtaking, and even fewer of those things are man-made. But this...
King Tutankhamun’s iron dagger is more than meets the eye: it comes from space
Scientists have confirmed that the pharaoh's dagger is indeed not from this Earth - the blade is the "iron of...
Facebook is using your phone to listen to everything you say, professor suggests
The good news is that it's easy to turn this off.
The world is shifting to renewables faster than expected, Canadian think tank finds
A Canadian think tank found that Canada's status as a 'world superpower' is threatened because the world is shifting away...
This memory lasts forever: quartz coin can store 360 TB for 14 billion years
Researchers at Southampton University in the UK have developed a technique which allows them to store 360 TB of data...
British archaeologists find Roman handwritten document
Several tablets from the Roman Age have been uncovered and analyzed following excavation in London, including the oldest hand-written document...
Colorful shrimp could teach us how to build stronger materials
Researchers are now one step closer to developing super strong composite materials, thanks to the mantis shrimp - a marine...
Australia censors UNESCO climate report to remove references to the Great Barrier Reef
Australia's government wants to stick its head in the sand and simply ignore reality instead of making actual efforts to...