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It's like Instagram but with rotting toes and tumors instead of filters
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Engineers and music experts in New Zealand tinkered with the concepts behind Thomas Edison's original phonograph to make a beer bottle sing
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On June 30, 1908, an enormous explosion in a remote stretch of Siberia flattened and bruned nearly 1,000 square miles of forest, totaling around 80 million trees
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Bacteria sets up shop in squid to make it sparkle, and also might tell it when to go to sleep
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Thanks to climate change, coffee rust's ideal habitat seems to be spreading as higher elevations and more northern areas become warmer
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Study of the Medici's children shows that they suffered from rickets, or the bone softening affliction caused by a lack of vitamin D from sunlight or food
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This amazing composite photo gives a scrollable, zoomable high-resolution view of 1938 San Francisco
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Fracking has reshaped American drilling, and shale gas stores are popping up all over the world
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As LEGOs have gotten more and more varied, they've given the little yellow dude more expressions, many of them angry
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Peeing in space is way harder than you might think
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In the past 20 years our knowledge about dinosaurs has grown, meaning that some dinosaur-related points depicted in the film are either outdated or wrong
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Unlike a Chinese youth shamed for the markings he left on an Egyptian Temple, Luther Bradish got away guilt-free with his sneaky bid at immortality
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Chris Hadfield, the 53-year old astronaut superstar, is retiring
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A new study found that around 40 percent of designated drivers drink, and almost 20 percent do so to the point that their own ability to drive may be impaired
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A twist in the on-going quest for a male contraceptive
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One sign of former yakuza-dom is harder to cover up: missing pinkies
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By boosting bees' genetic diversity, this sperm bank could make American bees stronger
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NSA's PRISM, monitoring the internet, and the recent history of domestic surveillance
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