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Sixty years ago, John Cage put on a performance of a piece called 4'33" or "four minutes, thirty-three seconds." Today would have been his birthday
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In 1955, scientists dropped nukes on beer and soda to see how they held up
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In some parts of rural India the practice of witch hunts is still in vogue, but local women aim to stop it
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Using Curiosity's left and right navigation cameras, NASA produced a 3D panorama of the Martian surface
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A new ant species joins a menagerie of other creatures cut off from their kind in isolated patches of urban green in NYC
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An excess of dead wood in Canada has designers thinking big
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Does sleeping through physics - or math class for that matter - really make a difference to your life?
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A cat named Venus is perhaps the most famous feline on the planet thanks to her unique markings
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Before-and-after audio records show how ecosystems change
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Silent Spring turns 50 this month, but Rachel Carson's ecological game-changer was not always the beloved green bible it is today
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Photographer TIm Tadder's "Water Wigs" makes a splash in this collection of unique images
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A kindergarten program seeks to teach children a small community's native language
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Gentle global warming could be a boon for marine biodiversity
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These designers have all come up with clever ways to push the game out of the real of sight, and into the realm of touch
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A new species discovered in the Philippines has scientists wondering just how many animals we're missing out on
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New research shows that it might be influencing how much booze you down thanks to an optical illusion that makes curved glasses seem more alcoholically innocent than they really are
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Researchers observed that western scrub jays hold funeral reveries for fallen comrades
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The IUCN's Red List of endangered species looks bad, but the reality is probably much, much worse
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Today's fires are bigger, weirder, and way harder to model
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Add Labor Day to the vaulted hall of things concocted by secret societies, alongside Madonna's Superbowl performance and Pancho Villa's stolen skull
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