Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About San Francisco’s Cable Cars

Ever since they became a part of the city’s transit system, they have been iconic mainstays of its cityscape
January 04, 2013 | By Jeff Greenwald

Photo of the Week: Adelie Penguins Take the Plunge

Photo contest contestant Lois Summers captured these penguins mid-dive off the Antarctic Peninsula
January 04, 2013 | By Lois Summers

Photo of the Week: A Quick Nap, Myanmar

A beautiful image by photo contest contestant Kyaw Zaw Lay captures a sleepy young monk
January 04, 2013 | By Lois Summers

Photo of the Week: Girl Meets Whale

Photo contest contestant Andrey Antov captured his daughter sharing a moment with a beluga whale
January 04, 2013 | By Lois Summers

Travel Photo of the Week: Guardian of Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt

Photo contest contestant Jarrod Castaing of Sydney, Australia snapped this shot among the ruins of this ancient temple complex
January 04, 2013 | By Lois Summers

Photo of the Week: Theyyam Temple Performance

Photo contest contestant Joshi Daniel captured this shot in Kannur, Kerala, India
January 04, 2013 | By Lois Summers

A 2.1 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Reveals Water on Mars

Chemical analysis shows that the meteorite, discovered in Morocco, contains ten times as much water as any Martian rock previously studied
January 03, 2013 | By Joseph Stromberg

NASA Wants to Drag an Asteroid Into Orbit Around the Moon

If going to an asteroid is hard, maybe bringing an asteroid to us is easier?
January 03, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

A Short Bike Ride in the Peruvian Andes

The author kicks off 2013 with a 1,100-mile cycling journey through the Andes from Lima, Peru, to Ecuador's lofty capital of Quito
January 03, 2013 | By Alastair Bland

Hankie Coated in Beheaded Louis XVI’s Blood Found in Dried Squash

Two centuries after King Louis XVI's execution, researchers think they've found a revolutionary souvenir from that fateful day
January 02, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

Arctic Offshore Drilling Still Going Poorly As Shell’s Rig Runs Aground

The recent mishap is part of a string of troubles that Shell has encountered in its efforts to drill in the frigid Gulf
January 02, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

The Smithsonian Heads to Hawaii

Coral reefs and radio telescopes make a trip to the tropics more than worthwhile
January 2013 | By G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

How One Museum Looks to Combat Ageism

A new exhibit in Israel educates kids that being old shouldn’t translate to being sidelined
January 2013 | By Shoshana Kordova

PHOTOS: Getting Ready for the World’s Largest Radio Telescope

In Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers are preparing for a new array that will stretch across 10 miles
January 2013 | By Leah Binkovitz

The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan

A mountain hamlet in northern Japan claims Jesus Christ was buried there
January 2013 | By Franz Lidz

A Look Into Brazil’s Makeover of Rio’s Slums

The Brazilian government’s bold efforts to clean up the city’s notoriously dangerous favelas is giving hope to people who live there
January 2013 | By Joshua Hammer

The Vegas Hotspot That Broke All the Rules

America’s first interracial casino helped end segregation on the Strip and proved that the only color that mattered was green
January 2013 | By Kevin Cook

Does Deep Space Travel Cause Alzheimer’s?

A new study indicates that the levels of radiation astronauts would experience over the course of a deep space mission could lead to dementia
December 31, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

You Know You Want To Snoop Around Marilyn Monroe’s Secret FBI File

Freshly un-redacted FBI files paint Monroe as a bit of a communist
December 31, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

This School Is Getting Girls Into Physics

The gap between boys and girls in math and engineering seems to start early and continue through college. But one school in the UK is trying to buck that trend
December 31, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

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