In rural Southern India, a husband has embarked upon perhaps the most chivalrous mission ever: designing an affordable menstrual pad for local women
Landing a car-sized rover on a distant planet using a sky crane is really hard, and really awesome.
Cows' mottled coats may have evolved to help keep flies away.
It's no surprise that many of food health labels stray from truth, but how can we cut the rubbish and identify the things that are actually good for us?
Though all eyes are on Curiosity, space agencies from around the world have by no means been resting on their laurels.
If we let athletes dope all they want, just how big, fast and strong can they really get?
53 million years ago, Antarctica was so warm that palm trees lived along its shores.
The opening of parts of the Arctic Ocean each summer, and the melting of surface ice on northern landscapes, driving a gold rush into the Arctic frontier
Several of the characteristics that define a psychopath also correspond to the traits that make for effective leaders. For politicians, this is true
The Curiosity lander sets down in just a few days, and here's who to follow on Twitter in anticipation
Nasal hallucinations are a real thing, and they stink
Getting your daily dose of awe inspires patience, altruism, and life satisfaction
The Galapagos recently finished exterminating 80,000 invasive goats from the island
Power grids supplying both the northern and eastern parts of India went down, throwing 620 million people, or 8.9% of the world population into darkness
New research reveals that the flu virus has mutated into a novel strain of influenza, which transfers not just from bird to seal, but from seal to seal
No one, not even the experts, really knows what's about to happen
Molecular biology professor David Goodsell is just as skilled with a microscope as with a paint brush
A new study shows that right-handed and left-handed people make different choices
Bad news for coffee drinkers: It turns out that those cheap coffee pots found in offices are one of the biggest energy hogs in the modern workplace
The things we do to animals for the LOLs might not be as innocuous as they seem
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