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Where do Schrödinger's cat and lolcats collide? On the science-themed web comics that appeal to our inner nerd and inner child at the same time
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Number 8: One species may be immortal. It can play its lifecycle in reverse, transforming from an adult medusa back to an immature polyp
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Fracking is just the latest cause to make the news for its link to quakes
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Atlanticus Pokemon, er, Sea Slug: What is this far-fetched ocean creature and why is it so poisonous?
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Does beaning in baseball represent an ethical holdover from our earlier days of family feuds and a culture of honor?
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The internet giant's newest innovation is a wearable computing device that projects data right in front of our eyes
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A new study indicates that daydreamers are better at remembering information in the face of distraction
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A new survey of a slice of the distant reaches of the universe reveals 200,000 galaxies
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New artificial intelligence programs can analyze data sets to produce news articles that mimic the human voice
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Saturn's Enceladus is spurting water vapor, organic material and salt—a microbe-friendly composition
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A new device uses laser pulses to create 3-D images of areas beyond its line of sight
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I have glimpsed the future. And it is teeming with creepy crawly cyborgs
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This ray uses its toothed rostrum not only to detect its next meal, but also to attack and impale its prey
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How do scientists know how many wolves are out there? Listen to how they howl, and then count how many wolves howl back
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Computer analysis of satellite imagery has revealed what could be a record number of archaeological sites
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To protect their hive from an invading hornet, Asian honeybees gang up and surround it, forming a "hot defensive bee ball"
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An astrophysicist and an economist want to fix our clocks and our calendars
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A new study shows that our ability to recall details is severely impaired after physical exertion
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One explosion raised a barn roof several feet in the air and blew the hog farmer 30 or 40 feet from the door
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North American camels went extinct at the end of the last ice age. Were humans partly to blame?
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