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Online Dating Sites Boom As Singles Make New Year’s Resolutions

Late December through January is the heaviest time of year for online dating websites

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This Is What the End of All Time Looks Like

Feel like having your tiny human mind blown? Check out predictions for the next 10^10^10^76.66 years

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What Will They Do With The Body of a Beached Whale in Queens?

Rescuers, locals and conservationists have been trying to figure out just what to with the body of a fin whale that died in Queens on Thursday

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The Last Working Copyist in Mali Is Trying To Save Timbuktu’s Manuscripts

180,000 medieval manuscripts are housed in Timbuktu, and only 23,000 of those ancient writings have ever been catalogued

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The Amazing Things You Can Build With a $25 Computer

Computer-powered everything is coming from the creative endeavors of computer and electronics hobbyists—the ones who tinker just to see if it can be done

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This Christmas Tune Was Written By An Astronaut And Recorded in Space

Listen to the first song written specifically to be performed in space

Barrels of fuel encased in snow at the Lake Ellsworth drilling site.

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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Some of the Geekiest Practical Jokes Ever

There is little more powerful than a nerd on a mission

Machias Seal Island is home to a population of Atlantic Puffins.

Canada And the United States Are Bickering Over Ownership of a Tiny Island

A tiny island with little more than a lighthouse and some puffins is the center of a border disagreement

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Think Apple Maps Are Bad? These Cartographics Blunders Were Way Worse

If you think Apple messed up big time, think again. The history of map making is full of far worse blunders

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Open For Business: The 3D Printed Gun Store

After Makerbot and Stasys pulled support, 3-D gun printers have found help elsewhere, and opened an online database of designs

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Cosmic Sans: a New Font Space Geeks Will Love to Hate

Merging iconic space imagery with everyone’s (least) favorite font

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Super High Res Photo of Mt. Everest Shows Glacier Melt (But No Bodies)

Photographers from the organization Glacier Works just captured an interactive digital image of Mount Everest in astounding, gigapixel detail

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The Irish Used to Celebrate the Day After Christmas by Killing Wrens

If you’ve ever wanted to celebrate the day after christmas by hunting down a small bird and tying it to the top of a pole, move to Ireland

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This Beautiful Visualization Makes Prime Factors Dance

“I knew that I should take his lovely little dots and make them dance”

Just Before Sealing the Deal, Male Peacocks Announce to All Other Ladies ‘We’re About to Do It’

Called a “hoot-dash” display, scientists puzzle over the purpose of this seemingly braggadocios bellow

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An Edible White House, and the Long History of Gingerbread

The history of gingerbread starts as early as the 11th century

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Snowflakes May Have Different Designs, But They Always Have Six Sides

The chemistry of water gives rise to the intricate beauty of snowflakes

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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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Watch Out for All the Holiday Drinking—You Might Spontaneously Combust

In the 18th century, sober citizens and church goers loved to harp on the evils of alcohol abuse, which supposedly could cause a person to randomly burst into flames

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