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How Much Abuse Can a Single Lego Brick Take?
Forget iPads, if you want a long lasting toy stick with blocks
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Early Easter Islanders Ate Rats—Lots of Rats
Perhaps the lack of fish food even explains the orientation of Easter Island’s famous statues, which face inwards toward the islanders’ food source
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This Jetpack Could Carry You Twenty Miles And Be On the Market by Next Year
Pilots will have to wear hearing protection along with a helmet, neck restraints, boots and a fireproof suit
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Hear Stories Read in Proto Indo-European, a 6000-Year-Old Language
Proto Indo-European is thought to be the precursor to many Indian, Asian and European languages
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What We Can Learn from Whale Breath
Researchers are trying to culture what comes out of blowholes from whales and dolphins, to see if they can use them as diagnostic tools
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Krokodil, a “Flesh-Eating” Heroin Substitute Popular in Russia, Just Showed Up in the U.S.
Desomorphine, a cleaner form of the drug, was first concocted by the U.S. in the 1930s as a potential morphine substitute
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The Case of the Mysterious, Thirteenth-Century Eruption Might Finally be Solved
In A.D. 1257 a massive volcano erupted, spreading ash all over the world. The problem is that scientists have no idea where the eruption happened
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Occupy Wall Street Has Spawned a Financial Services Group
People affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement want to open an Occupy-branded bank
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Ballerinas’ Brains Are Desensitized to Dizziness
Dancers may reshape their brains with years or training, or people who have a natural ability not to fall over may be most likely to become pro ballerinas
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This Site Shows You Every Face on Facebook
There are over a billion people with Facebook accounts, and this site lets you see all of their profile pictures at once
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Lysol’s Vintage Ads Subtly Pushed Women to Use Its Disinfectant as Birth Control
As if that wasn’t bad enough, Lysol isn’t even an effective contraceptive
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Funding Gaps Have Only Forced Government Shutdowns Since the 1980s
Funding gaps didn’t always bring a shut down of the federal government
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Giant Hornets Proliferated During China’s Heatwave, And Now Have Killed 28 People
Entomologists speculate that the exceptionally warm weather in China allowed the aggressive, deadly hornets to proliferate
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Our Phones Are Going to Make Us Sick, But We’re Scared to Live Without Them
Those prone to simulator sickness will have a hard time avoiding phones and computer screens
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Wilson Kipsang Just Broke the Marathon World Record
Wilson Kipsang just set the marathon world record, clocking in at 2 hours, 3 minutes and 23 seconds
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When a Dam Turned a Forest Into Tiny Islands, Only Rats Were Happy
Although the rate of extinction the researchers observed is startling, it’s unfortunately not surprising
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This Football Player Is Afraid of His Team’s Mascot
Eric Berry has a problem. He’s afraid of horses. This wouldn’t be a big deal if he weren’t a player for the Kansas City Chiefs
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Coastal Animals Have Two Internal Clocks, One for the Sun And One for the Tide
When researchers tamped with sea lice’s internal clocks, the crustaceans were unruffled by the unwinding of their circadian cycles
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Just Learning About Concussions Doesn’t Make Kids Report Them
How effective are concussion awareness programs at actually getting kids to report their symptoms?
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Researchers Hope a Treatment that Creates New Hair Follicles Cures Male Baldness
A specific protein called fibroblast growth factor 9, when overstimulated in mice, increased new hair follicle formation by a factor of two or three
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