Cool Finds

Crystalized acetaminophen, the drug in Tylenol

When This Photographer Got Sick, He Started Taking Beautiful Photos of Painkillers and Tears

The extreme closeups were one way for the photographer to understand what he was taking

Does she look like she would enjoy being jabbed with a needle? Conservationists have used assassin bugs to test the blood female Iberian lynx, like the mother picture above with her cubs, for pregnancy.

How Do You Give an Iberian Lynx a Pregnancy Test? Use an Assassin Bug

Researchers used the insects to keep tabs on population growth in the threatened species

Here’s How to Make a Record Out of a Tortilla

Yes, it’s edible

Visitors at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., can take a trip to the seaside inside.

Washington D.C. Just Got a 10,000 Square Foot Ball Pit

A giant ball pit exhibit allows National Building Museum visitors to experience an indoor ocean

Here’s What the Sun Looks Like Through an X-Ray Telescope

All of the wonder of Earth’s closest star, none of the retinal damage

This is What Happened When an Australian City Gave Trees Email Addresses

Trees get fan mail and even write back to Melburnian residents

Swiss researchers want to build a spacecraft to eat their tiny satellites after they stop working.

This Pac-Man Spacecraft Will Devour a Satellite

Swiss researchers are designing a tiny satellite to eat their defunct cube satellite and clean up space junk

Behold the World’s Tallest Sandcastle, 41 Feet Tall

The battle for tallest sand structure rages on

Look Up: Clouds Could be the Next Movie Screens

An abandoned military strategy leads to the first “cloud movie”

Researchers Are Using Facial Recognition Software To Save Lions

Software algorithms offer a non-invasive way to track the big cats

Croquet Was Once the Big Thing at Wimbledon

The club has croquet to thank for its famous lawns

The hydrophobic bacteria that coat the ceilings of some dark lava caves produce a gorgeous golden sparkle.

How Bacteria Make This Underground, Awe-Inspiring Cave Shine Gold

These underground tubes at Lava Beds National Monument include sparkling gold ceilings that even NASA wants to study

In a new video released by the WWF, viewers can glide through the Great Barrier Reef on the back of a sea turtle.

Researchers Strapped a Go-Pro to a Sea Turtle, and Here’s What They Got

See the Great Barrier Reef from a turtle's view

The robot from Toshiba sporting two cameras

This Scorpion-Shaped Robot Will Enter One of Fukushima’s Reactors

The nuclear power plant's owners still don't know exactly what is going on inside the three reactors that melted down

Benjamin Rush, prominent colonial physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, wrote a treatise on alcohol in 1784 that still influences how medicine views substance abuse today.

Meet the Doctor Who Convinced America to Sober Up

Meet Benjamin Rush, father of the temperance movement, signer of the Declaration of Independence

A drone shot of the Harvest Dome 2.0, sinking over a sunken ship in Gowanus Canal

A Sculpture Meant to Celebrate the Renewal of the Gowanus Canal Just Got Caught on Trash and Sank

R.I.P. Harvest Dome 2.0

Dante and Virgil encounter the counterfeiters and forgers, now changed to lepers and the insane for punishment

One of the Earliest Feature Films Was This Italian Adaptation of Dante’s Inferno

It's the earliest surviving complete feature-length film, made in 1911

Is air in the country healthier than air in the city? One scientist has a theory as to why that's the case, and it's got nothing to do with pollution.

Is Country Air Really Better Than City Air?

One scientist thinks it’s because of toxic plant chemicals

An artist’s illustration of the Prandtl-m flying above the surface of Mars

This Boomerang-Shaped Aircraft Could be the First to Fly on Mars

The lightweight glider would search for potential landing spots to be used by a future manned mission to Mars

An active basalt lava flow in the wild (from a volcano, not from the lab)

To Better Understand Lava, an Artist and Scientist Make Their Own

A lab at Syracuse University creates melts basaltic rock in a modified furnace

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