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The Tamu Massif is not only the world's largest volcano, but also one of the largest documented volcanoes in the solar system
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A new orbiter is going to the Moon, and it's launching from Virginia
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To study trypophobia, scientists went to the most obvious place: the trypophobia website and Facebook group
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The process involves shoving cloth under the skin of your arm, walking around for two weeks with your bicep attached to your face, and probably dying
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Scientists have actually taken the time to investigate the idea, and produced some hard numbers that indicated that cow-tipping "has no leg to stand on"
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Unlike past glass-based models, the new implant's ceramic material will not shatter if someone bumps their head
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Perhaps the king's cooks were not washing their hands, or forgetting to rinse the human waste-fertilized salad greens before serving them to their monarch
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Ride alongside NASA's Airborne Science Laboratory as scientists try to figure out the role of clouds in climate change
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The tiny Gardiner's frog does not possess an eardrum, but it has come up with a convenient evolutionary hack to get around that
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The Japanese government has stepped in and announced that it will invest $500 million in the project
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For one man Parkinson's hallucinations were both horrible and predictive - he smelled an intense skunky oniony smell that got worse when a storm was coming
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Just a few weeks ago Barbie released their "Mars Explorer" doll. And today LEGO unleashed their female scientist block figurine
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This isn't the first time fire has threatened a national park
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While we slather sunscreen on our skin, whales don't have the hands or the technology to do the same
For tanks and cars safety testing means crashing them into walls. For a military helicopter that means dropping it from 30 feet in the air
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Subjects consumed with money, they found, dropped an average of 13 IQ points, or the equivalent of zapping our brain by pulling a mind-numbing all-nighter
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Three time-lapses were shot on the same stretch of rail over 60 years
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Underwater explosions and sonar testing is expected to kill hundreds, and injure thousands to millions of animals
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Scientists have found the protein that prevents your (mouse's) body from adjusting to changing time zones
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Your brain can't handle the overflow of emotion
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