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The seven-year-old Philadelphia student just became the world's youngest known person ever to code a computer game
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Twenty-five different natural and synthetic chemical potions and poisons pop up in 20 different opera's plots
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Called the Distinguished Warfare Medal, this award will honor drone pilots, hackers and others
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Ockham never really said anything about razors; he was more interested in Scripture
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More than 100 Tibetan monks have set themselves aflame in the past four years
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People, whether single or partnered up, tend to think their way of romantic life is better for everyone, regardless of how happy they actually are
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The people of the world have spoken: they don't like cheaters, and they don't like doping. Unless you're a football player - in which case no one seems to care
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The end goal is to help develop drugs that more thoroughly knock out the feeling of pain
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Plants speak with chemical cues, and they listen more carefully to their close relatives
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A man just recovered from a condition his doctor called "clinical vampirism"—which was characterized by insatiable cravings for human blood
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A 2007 drought, and an over-reliance on groundwater, means the the Middle East's aquifers are fading
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A novel coronavirus identified earlier this year is slowly--very slowly--spreading
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Someday, the Seattle-based American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots may begin to serve disgruntled, nonhuman customers of the AI persuasion
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Is cellular coverage inevitable in U.S. national parks, some of the nation's last wireless hold-outs?
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Japan's foodies have turned their attention to a new delicacy on Tokyo menus; will dirt turn up next in haute cuisine in New York and London?
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At 40 percent salinity, the pond is the saltiest body of water on the planet.
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In Australia, wind power is now cheaper than coal
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Every year, tourists take approximately a bazillion pictures. Most of them never wind up anywhere but someone's hard drive, never seen again, but some of those pictures might actually be useful. Especially if they're of whale sharks
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North Korea's new nuke could take out a big chunk of Lower Manhattan
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What does the taste of coffee actually sound like?
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