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Shooting a laser at an airplane could get you 20 years in prison
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Newly-released schematics show the plans for a failed flying saucer
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Most fermenting species of yeast are found on animals, insects and rotting fruit, so cultivating yeast from a person's body might not be that far-fetched
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Today's Nobel Prize in medicine went to Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon for their work on stem cell research and cloning
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Upper Paleolithic humans coming out of Africa lost romantic interest in Neanderthals about 47,000 years ago
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The seemingly too-good-to-be-true 4-hour workweek has a few glaring caveats
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In France, bees have been turning up with abdomens swollen in colors of blue and green, an unnatural rainbow that was also reflected in their honey
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Count Wolfgang, head of a huge pencil company, explains why pencils are wonderful
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Carried aloft by a giant helium balloon, Felix Baumgartner will free-fall from the stratosphere
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Scientists took heed of the announcement that eggs can be made from stem cells, as evidenced by a collection of uncharacteristically colorful reactions
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Crane enthusiasts now enjoy live streaming of this year's batch of endangered young Whooping Cranes as they prepare for their first migration south
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Roughly 21,000 pieces of space junk orbit near the Earth
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England will soon begin construction on its first building built entirely from waste
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Two companies want to hydraulically fracture the Newberry Volcano in Oregon
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Black mambas' toxicity turns out to have applications other than rodent-killing
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A new stamp collection pulls together beautiful top-down views of the Earth
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Walter Cronkite is widely referred to as the world's first anchorman. But a man named John Cameron Swayze might have beat him to the punch
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