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Finned Robot Leads Gullible Fish Schools

A new fish bot joins the ranks of ethorobotics, or the study of bio-inspired robots that interact with live animal counterparts

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You Can’t Blow Somebody’s Brain Up With Sound

The sounds of nails on a chalkboard, the sound of someone vomiting, the sound of a baby screaming - all pretty unpleasant sounds. But not so unpleasant that you might, say, die

Some people find talking to new people more stressful than others.

Giving a Good First Impression: You’re Doing It Wrong

Trying to assert your dominance is not necessarily the best way to say “Hi”

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They Celebrate American Thanksgiving in the Netherlands

From 1609 to 1620, many of the Pilgrims who came to America lived in the Netherlands

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Tick Bites Cause Freak Allergy to Meat Eating

In addition to acting as vectors for diseases, ticks are now identified as the likely culprit of a new bane specific to carnivores: causing an allergic reaction to meat

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To Adapt to Harsh Greenland Climate, Vikings Gorged on Seals

Despite their barbaric reputation, the Viking-era Norse typically worked as farmers rather than hunters - except on Greenland

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Here’s the Reality We’re Signing Up For By Letting Climate Change Happen

Say goodbye to winter, New Orleans, olive oil, rivers and world peace if climate change plays out as predicted

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We Can Only Process Thirty Smells at a Time

If we had the technology, I would be blowing smells at you right now. But if I were to try and combine more than thirty, you wouldn’t be able to tell the smells apart

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The Many Uses for Gigantic Balloons

Balloons have far more uses than just party favors

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People Have Been Using Stone-Tipped Spears For Way Longer Than We Thought

A new study adds 200,000 years to their run

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Different Wars Have Different Sounds

Changing weapons and technologies bring new sounds to the battlefield

Dog Paralysis Reversed With Cells From Pooch’s Nose

Fish on Prozac Are Violent And Obsessive

Prozac is seeping out of sewage treatment plants and into rivers and lakes, turning male minnows into female murderers

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These Communities Decided Not To Rebuild After Disaster

It seems that despite always asking the question, the answer is always the same: rebuild. Except in these cases - when entire communities just pick up and leave

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What Studying Einstein’s Brain Can And Can’t Tell Us

New pictures are giving scientists a better idea of just what made Einstein’s brain so unique - but there’s only so much photographs of a lump of tissue can tell us

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Tycho Brahe Probably Wasn’t Murdered, But These People Were

Here are some quite odd cases in which the people were probably murdered

Archeologists Uncover Utah’s First Mormon Baptistry

Archeologists uncovered the remains of the first Latter-day Saints baptistry in Utah County, build around 1875

Scanned pages from the Oculists’ coded text.

Cracking a German Secret Society’s Centuries-Old Encrypted Code

A secret society with ties to the Freemason’s coded text has been cracked

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Lonesome George Was Not Alone!

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Shell Oil Has Been Selling Itself As a Protector of Nature Since the 1930s

From gateway to guardian, Shell’s eco-based advertisements through the years

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