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The Two Newest Nobel Prize Winners Opened Up Pandora’s Box of Stem Cell Research And Cloning
Today’s Nobel Prize in medicine went to Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon for their work on stem cell research and cloning
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When Did Human-Neanderthal Hook Ups End?
Upper Paleolithic humans coming out of Africa lost romantic interest in Neanderthals about 47,000 years ago
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Are You an Expert? If Not, Forget the 4-Hour Work Week
The seemingly too-good-to-be-true 4-hour workweek has a few glaring caveats
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French Bees Are Making M&M-Contaminated Blue And Green Honey
In France, bees have been turning up with abdomens swollen in colors of blue and green, an unnatural rainbow that was also reflected in their honey
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Why Pencils Are Way Better Than Pens
Count Wolfgang, head of a huge pencil company, explains why pencils are wonderful
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Skydiver Plans to Break the Sound Barrier by Jumping From 120,000 Feet
Carried aloft by a giant helium balloon, Felix Baumgartner will free-fall from the stratosphere
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The Crazy Things a Few Tiny Little Mouse Eggs Made Scientists Say
Scientists took heed of the announcement that eggs can be made from stem cells, as evidenced by a collection of uncharacteristically colorful reactions
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Watch Young Whooping Cranes Prepare for Flight
Crane enthusiasts now enjoy live streaming of this year’s batch of endangered young Whooping Cranes as they prepare for their first migration south
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One Tiny Piece of Space Debris Can Destroy a Satellite
Roughly 21,000 pieces of space junk orbit near the Earth
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British Architects Plan to Build a House Entirely From Waste
England will soon begin construction on its first building built entirely from waste
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Two Companies Want to Frack the Slopes of a Volcano
Two companies want to hydraulically fracture the Newberry Volcano in Oregon
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Black Mamba Venom Beats Morphine as a Painkiller
Black mambas’ toxicity turns out to have applications other than rodent-killing
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Share a Bit of Earth’s Majesty With Every Letter You Send
A new stamp collection pulls together beautiful top-down views of the Earth
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The First Anchorman Ever Was Not Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite is widely referred to as the world’s first anchorman. But a man named John Cameron Swayze might have beat him to the punch
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How Mosquitoes Are Out-Smarting Humans
Mosquitoes have figured us out and have started biting during the daytime
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Zoom Around This Detailed Map of the Ancient World
Now, you can zoom around this huge, detailed map of the ancient world labeled with cities from all sorts of archaeological records, classical text references and European imagery
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Tree Gangsters Are Killing the Rainforest
Organized criminal syndicates are responsible for most illegal logging, which accounts for up to 30 percent of timber traded globally
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