How to Follow Every Second of the Curiosity Mars Mission
The Curiosity lander sets down in just a few days, and here’s who to follow on Twitter in anticipation
Vietnam’s Dogs are Both Humans’ Best Friends and Snacks
In Vietnam, dog lovers had best keep their pooches behind high, locked fences if they don’t want their pets to wind up boiled in a pot
Yesterday Was National Orgasm Day and You Missed It
Did you celebrate? If not, you’ll just have to celebrate twice next year
In Long History of Creepy Robot Babies, this One Takes the Cake
Humans love babies. Humans also love robots. Yet somehow, when you combine the two, it’s terrifying.
Read a 2007 Essay in Smithsonian by Gore Vidal, Last Writer of His Kind
Why more writers should be as fearless, and as prickly as Vidal
Could a Whale-Powered Bus Be the Future of Transportation?
Visionary postcard artists illustrated around 90 fanciful cards between 1899 to 1910 imagined what the future held in store for France in the year 2000
For Soldiers, Sperm Banking Could Be the New Flack Jacket
Soldiers arriving home with missing or mutilated genitals have drown attention to the lack of government support for in vitro fertilization
Smell Hallucinations Exist Too, and Could Be a Sign of Health Problems
Nasal hallucinations are a real thing, and they stink
How The Feeling We Call Awe Helped Humans Conquer the Planet
Getting your daily dose of awe inspires patience, altruism, and life satisfaction
When It’s Okay to Kill 80,000 Wild Goats
The Galapagos recently finished exterminating 80,000 invasive goats from the island
How An Unholy Alliance of Unusual Weather and Scarce Coal Nuked India’s Power Grid
Power grids supplying both the northern and eastern parts of India went down, throwing 620 million people, or 8.9% of the world population into darkness
Why You Shouldn’t Panic Over The Latest News About Bird Flu
New research reveals that the flu virus has mutated into a novel strain of influenza, which transfers not just from bird to seal, but from seal to seal
Why Experts are Almost Always Wrong
No one, not even the experts, really knows what’s about to happen
Teaching Molecular Biology with Watercolors
Molecular biology professor David Goodsell is just as skilled with a microscope as with a paint brush
We’re Biased By Our Body’s Dominant Side
A new study shows that right-handed and left-handed people make different choices
Queen Elizabeth 1 Loved Live Action Role Playing
From the ancient Romans to the Tudor Queen, everyone likes dressing up and pretending to be something else
The Environmental Case Against Cheap Coffee
Bad news for coffee drinkers: It turns out that those cheap coffee pots found in offices are one of the biggest energy hogs in the modern workplace
How LOLCats and Laser Pointers Are Bad for Our Pets
The things we do to animals for the LOLs might not be as innocuous as they seem
Is This the Oldest Cave Art on the Planet?
Underneath a rock slab which rests on dozens of narrow stilts researchers have found the world’s oldest stone axe, and a vast collection of painted artwork
If Humans Are Ever Going to See Alien Life, Here’s Where It Will Happen
Scientists are all atwitter over Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons and one of the most likely places in our solar system to harbor life
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