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There Is Now a Hypothetical Species Named Shrewdinger Because of You
Last week, the public voted, and named a hypothetical placental ancestor Shrewdinger
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Google Autocomplete Isn’t the Same in Every Country
Chronicling the ways google autocompletes your searches can be both enlightening and horrifying
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Graham Crackers Were Supposed To Be a Sex Drive–Suppressing Diet Food
The original vision for graham crackers had little to do with s'mores
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‘Altitude Sickness’ Might Actually Be Two Different Diseases
Something like 20% of people in the United States who travel to the mountains in the west report getting altitude sickness, but the symptoms might actually be from two different diseases
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Celebrate Invasive Plant Pest and Disease Awareness Month By Reporting These Horrifying Species
April 1st marks the beginning of Invasive Plant Pest and Disease Awareness Month, but how does somebody celebrate?
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Watch How Fast the Insane Snout of the Star-Nosed Mole Can Move
To many, the star nosed mole is alternatively horrifying and fascinating, but have you ever seen the little rodent's face in action?
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If Your Plane is Going Down, It’s Better to Sit in the Back
Discovery TV crashed a Boeing 727 in the Sonoran desert to answer the question: where's the safest place in the plane?
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How That Annoying Drone From Inception Took Over Movie Trailers
There's this weird, droney sound that nearly every action movie seems to employ. But where did it come from?
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Stop Trying to Live Like a Caveman
Modern humans are doing it all wrong - they eat wrong, they run wrong, they work wrong, they get married wrong. But is the life of cave people really what we should be striving for?
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People Who Never Apologize Are Probably Happier Than You
That childhood distaste for saying you're sorry hasn't gone away as an adult - not apologizing still makes us feel much better than apologizing does
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Camera Lost for Six Years Returned (Which Is Crazy Even With the Internet)
The story can tell us a lot about the durability of plastic, but it's also an interesting look at just how connected the corners of the globe can be
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The United States Isn’t the Only Country Asking the Gay Marriage Question
The U.S. isn't the only nation struggling with the gay marriage issue. Here are where the debate stands in other countries around the world
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Rare Crane Gets a Prosthetic Leg, Joins Hoard of Amazing Animal Prosthesis Users
Animal prosthetics are far behind our human blades, but they're making strides
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Nobody Chews Like You Chew
There are a few things that are distinct to every person—her fingerprints, voice, particular way of walking, and, it turns out, the way she chews
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The Butt-Dialing Champion of the World Works for the New York Mets
The director of media relations for the Mets calls people by accident sometimes several times a day - from current players, to team executives to coaches
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Are You Here on Earth Just to Make Babies?
If so, what does that really mean for what we do each day, our culture and our society?
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The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless
Everybody relies on those four letters far more than they should
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Smuggler Caught With 10 Percent of an Entire Species
At the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Thailand, authorities stopped a man with some turtles. Fifty-four ploughshare tortoises and twenty-one radiated tortoises, to be exact
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Tracing $1 Bills Across the United States Is a Surprisingly Useful Hobby
What started as a quirky hobby, has turned into a national bill hunt that's useful for all sorts of people - like physicists
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Can Watching One Video Help You Die Better?
Since most of us don't see emergency medicine all that often, we tend to have an unrealistic idea about just how end of life care works
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