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While athletes were setting world records, designers and journalists were building graphics and games to track them. Here are the best ones.
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New research finds that "living in the moment" is probably impossible thanks to the hard-wired ways our minds process thinking and decision-making.
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Scientists are unlocking the secrets behind tiny adhesive structures in gecko toes in the hopes of designing new technologies
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Between midnight and dawn on any night this coming weekend (for those in the US, times vary for others), look up, turn to the northeast, and admire the annual show of the Perseid meteor shower.
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Flooding fueled by heavy rains brought down a 36 meter long stretch of the Great Wall of China
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Children and hobbyists rejoice - today is Lego's 80th birthday
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This year's hurricane season has started with a whimper, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expects it to go out with a bang
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For the residents of Centralia, Pennsylvania, the fire that has been burning beneath their town for fifty years is part of what makes it home.
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Programmers use a few lines of code to crack the Google Doodle hurdling puzzle. The rest of us still press the arrow keys frantically.
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Shannon Eastin, the first woman to ever referee an NFL game, got her stripes last night.
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Saluting Hitler and saluting the Olympics look basically identical, which is why you never see anybody saluting the Olympics anymore.
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Tim De Chant's Per Square Mile answers through infographics: How much land would 7 billion people need to live like the people of these countries?
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From 1929 to now, how do former Olympic champions compare to today's athletes?
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At the intersection of body hacking and transhumanism is a group of people trying to enhance the human body. And they're doing it in their basement.
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New research finds that one out of four science educators in the U.S. and Canada released lab animals into the wild after they were done using them in the classroom, introducing a surprising but potentially serious pathway for invasives to take hold in new locales.
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Everyone likes to complain that we're using too many exclamation points these days. Here's where the punctuation came from.
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Science provides an answer on what details in an urban street scene clue people in on what city it is from.
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Unearthed from a site near modern day St. Louis, Missouri, archaeologists found tea residue in pottery beakers that dates back to as early as 1050 A.D.
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