Cool Finds

We Can Measure How Traffic Vibrates the Earth

Special instruments called geophones help researchers distinguish the signatures of big trucks rumbling down the highway and planes taking off

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Someone Just Bought an Entire Connecticut Ghost Town for $1.2 Million

Johnsonville was once a 62-acre mill village

Australia’s Koalas Have Chlamydia, But a New Vaccine Could Save Them

The sexually transmitted disease threatens the health of one of Australia’s iconic marsupials

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The European Space Agency Has Made the Weirdest Short Film

The ESA's advertising Rosetta with a very unusual sci-fi short

Rainbows Don’t Include Purple Light, So Why Do They Sometimes Seem To?

Supernumerary rings, supernumerary rings, supernummrings

Artists In Search of Inspiration Can Now Find Their Muse On a Cargo Ship

Container ships now join Amtrak trains, dune shacks and remote islands in the Arctic circle as sights dedicated to artistic pursuit

In London, Sherlock Holmes is happy to stop for a quick chat.

You’ll Soon Be Able to Talk to London And Manchester’s Statues

Just scan a tag near the statues with your cell, and they'll call you with a quick first-person history lesson

The skeleton was discovered near the American Falls dam and reservoir in Idaho.

What Appears to Be a Complete Mammoth Skeleton Was Discovered in an Idaho Ditch

A nearby reservoir has just covered the fossil in water, however, postponing the excavation

Cat in his basket at Vienna’s first cat cafe

America's Finally Getting Its First Permanent Cat Cafe

Cappuccino and a Siamese, please

We're Terrible at Distinguishing Real And Fake Schools of Fish

You can test your fish school savviness in a free online game created by scientists

When Becoming a Man Means Sticking Your Hand Into a Glove of Ants

Young men must subject themselves to a ritual involving bullet ant-filled gloves not once but 20 times

A juvenile reticulated python in Malaysia

A Zoo Python Had Six Babies in a "Virgin Birth"

The 20-foot-long reptile hadn't had a chance to meet a mate, but she still laid 61 eggs

Newsflash: Technology Cannot Guarantee a Baby

The unregulated egg freezing industry is profitable for those involved, but prone to failure for those looking to get pregnant

Your Cat Has No Idea What You Want And Is Kind of Scared of You

Cats don't do social skills

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen by Rosetta last month

Rosetta’s Comet Smells Really, Really Bad

If you could breathe in space, you wouldn't want to breathe this air

A farmer in Sierra Leone holding cassava roots

How the Gates Foundation Is Making Cassava the Next Corn

Sophisticated plant breeding techniques (but no GMOs) and lots of money are aimed at improving this staple crop of the tropics

Beni Meier's record-holding 2323.7 pound pumpkin.

How to Grow a Giant Pumpkin

Science!

The King receives members of Scott's expedition at Buckingham Palace in England here. Shown are Lt. Bennie, Paymaster Drake, Paymaster Drake, Commander Campbell, Commander Evans, Commander Bruce, and Sir Levick, 1913.

Antarctic Explorer’s Journal Found In Melting Ice

George Murray Levick served as a photographer, zoologist and surgeon with the North Party

Build a Cloud Chamber for Cheap And See Particles From Outer Space

A simple device lets you see cosmic rays' effects with your own eyes

A marble worker in Italy

Quarrying for Marble Looks Unreal

A film excerpt follows the boss at an open-pit marble quarry in Carrara, Italy

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