Cool Finds

Both the Hubble Space Telescope (blue) and the ALMA Observatory contribute to this image of the Boomerang Nebula

This Dying Star Is the Coldest Place We’ve Found in the Universe

The Boomerang Nebula is just one degree above absolute zero

At 26,700 Feet, This Is the Deepest-Swimming Fish Known

Researchers found a new fish in the depths of the Mariana Trench

Irving Berlin and wife Ellen MacKay

"White Christmas" Is Actually the Saddest Christmas Song

The season would have reminded composer Irving Berlin of his young son who died Christmas Day in 1928

One of the hapless burglars in "Home Alone" unwittingly stepped on Christmas ornaments placed by Kevin

Architects Analyze Kevin McCallister's "Home Alone" Booby Traps

Overanalyze Home Alone in every way possible — and it still stands up, all these years later

Myth Busted: Americans Don’t Gain 10 Pounds Over the Holidays

It’s more like one

A recreation of the test that led to Louis Slotin's accident

After WWII, Scientists Conducted Deadly Tests With an Unexploded Nuclear Bomb Core

Physicist Richard Feynman called the tests "tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon"

Get Set Up With a Family in NYC for Christmas

Don’t be sad at the prospect of spending the holiday alone, a popular photoblog will match you up with a family

America's Best Butter Is Handchurned in Vermont

The price for perfection is $49 per pound

The Turing Test of Computer Intelligence Is Too Easy

To better test our computer programs’ intelligence, we should to ask them for stories and drawings

Making Dead People's Pulses Beat Again

A new device can transform 150-year-old printed representations of heart beats into actual sound

The view out of the Soyuz window.

If You Looked Out the Window While Returning From Space, Here’s What You’d See

The bright glow of friction in Earth's atmosphere

A sonar view looking down on part of the 345 foot-long SS City of Rio de Janeiro

Found: The Wreckage of the SS City of Rio de Janeiro, the “Bay Area’s Titanic”

The maritime disaster was the worst in Bay Area history

The Library for Magicians Is Taking Appointments

The Conjuring Arts Research Center in New York City houses some of the world's rarest books on the art of deception

Ice from a glacier

Backpackers Walk Across a Completely Clear Frozen Lake

A cool video raises the question: Why is most ice cloudy?

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TGI Fridays Has Dispatched Mistletoe-Carrying Drones in Restaurants

There's already been one collision between drone and human

These Adorable Robot Toys Teach Kids How to Code

The two bots using a basic visual language, and they are just one way to introduce children to computer programming

Dreams Are Slow-Motion

Lucid dreamers are offering insight into the sleeping mind

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Norwegian Nobel Winners Release Their Inner Avant-Garde Musicians

Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine repurposed a Norse folk tune for a science lecture

The Science of the Red Sea's Parting

It is physically and scientifically possible for a body of water to part

An illustration of the marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on February 10, 1840.

Queen Victoria Dreamed Up the White Wedding Dress in 1840

For most people, wearing a white wedding dress wasn't really a thing until the 1950s

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