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Antarctica’s Subglacial Lake Ellsworth Will Keep Its Secrets For Now
After a decade of planning, and two weeks in the field, the Lake Ellsworth drilling program was cancelled for the year
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Santa Could Totally Deliver All Those Presents Using Worm Holes Or Relativity Clouds
Have you ever wondered just how Santa delivers presents to every nice kid on Earth in just one night
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In Vigil for Newtown Victims, Video Gamers Will Put Down Their Weapons
On Friday, December 21st, a day of cease fire for online shooters
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Eastern Cougar ‘Ghost Cat’ Declared Extinct
The eastern cougar is extinct. But did it ever exist in the first place?
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Prolonged Drought Could Shut Down Shipping on the Mighty Mississippi
This time last year the Mississippi around St. Louis was 20 feet deeper
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Is the U.N. Climate Report More Trouble Than It’s Worth?
Several mainstream scientists are expressing doubts about the necessity of the IPCC reports
NASA Assures Us the World Won’t End on Friday
NASA points out the illogic of this apocalypse scenario and misconceptions that caused the false notion of an end-of-the-world prophesy to come about
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Not Even Canadians Are Likely To Get a White Christmas This Year
The odds of a white Christmas has dropped 15% in recent decades
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Rasputin Was Murdered Today in 1916
It's still a mystery who exactly orchestrated and carried out the deed
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Soon There Should Be Fewer Microscopic Soot Particles in the Air
The Obama administration just set new limits on soot from smoke stacks and diesel engines, a type of air pollution linked to early death and higher rates of heart attacks, strokes and lung diseases
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T Minus Three Days Until NASA Sends Two Satellites Crashing Into the Moon
After orbiting the moon for nearly a year, two satellites are being sent to their deaths
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You Can Come Out of Your House Now: Google Maps Is Back on the iPhone
The world can stop freaking out now - Google Maps is back on your iPhone
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North Korea’s Failing Satellite Could Ruin Space for Everyone
North Korea's new satellite is out of control, and it could wipe out human's access to space
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This Meteor Shower Is So New It Doesn’t Even Have a Name
For the first time, debris from the comet Wirtanen may cross paths with the Earth
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Get Ready: A 2.8-Mile Wide Asteroid Is About to Swoop Past Earth
A huge asteroid will pass near Earth today, and you can watch it live online
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British Scientists Will Drill Through Three Kilometers of Ice Into an Ancient Antarctic Lake
More than a decade of planning will come together this week for a five-day push through three kilometers of ice
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Stylish But Illegal Monkey Caught at Ikea
A confused monkey wearing a shearling coat and diaper was found wandering around outside an Ikea store in Toronto
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On This Day in 1901, the First Nobel Prizes Were Awarded
One-hundred and eleven years ago today the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace
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It’s Been 40 Years Since Anyone Rode a Rocket to the Moon
Apollo 17 took off forty years ago today
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It’s the Final Day of the Doha Climate Talks, And, Uh, Did Anything Actually Happen?
Reports from Doha don't provide much hope that any progress has been made on the increasingly urgent issue of global climate change
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