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How Armadillos Can Spread Leprosy
These tank-like creatures are the only animals besides us known to carry leprosy
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Someone Found Chris Hadfield’s Flight Suit in a Thrift Store
The astronaut isn’t sure how his suit made its way to a Toronto second-hand shop
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Popular Music Changed the Most in 1964
Scientists use genomic data to show how pop music evolves
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It’s Now Legal to Book a Cruise to Cuba
A Canadian cruise line is allowing Americans to legally book a trip around Cuba
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Allergy Treatments Could Someday Start Before You Are Born
Studies in mice are showing that it might be possible treat disorders that have a genetic basis during pregnancy
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Victor Hugo Also Created Dramatic Pen and Ink Drawings
The sketches, many done with pen and ink, are almost modern and surreal
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The Great Goldfish Swallowing Craze of 1939 Never Really Ended
A Harvard undergrad’s $10 bet set off a sensation among college students that still echoes on the Internet today
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The Dawn Spacecraft Is About to Reach Its Next Destination—the Dwarf Planet Ceres
We might just learn what the mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet are—and much more
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Statisticians Reveal the Best Place to Wait Out a Zombie Apocalypse
You’ll want to head for the Rocky Mountains
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Would You Live in an Antarctic Penguin Post Office?
Applications soar at post office in Port Lockroy, Antarctica
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Sharks Have Scary-Good Memories
New research on one species reveals an astounding ability to learn complex tricks and remember them for at least a year
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Adultery Is Now Legal in South Korea
62 years after the passage of a morality law, spouses can’t be prosecuted for extramarital affairs
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The FCC Just Voted to Preserve Net Neutrality
FCC passes “Preserving the Open Internet” rules by 3-2 vote
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This Is How New Words Enter the Vernacular of ASL
Selfie, photobomb and five-second rule all have signs in progress
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Like People, Bees Can Be Fooled by False Memories
Bumblebees gravitate toward unfamiliar flowers that merge two patterns they know—a classic error of long term memory
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How One Doctor Proposes to Conduct the First Human Head Transplant
An Italian neuroscientists says that the surgery could be ready in as few as two years, but the scientific community remains very skeptical
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Germans Brace for the Re-Release of ‘Mein Kampf’
Is Hitler’s 90-year-old manifesto too dangerous to be on bookshelves?
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Opportunity rover helps capture a hauntingly blue view of nightfall on the Red Planet
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Tiny Bits of Plastic May Be Clogging Up Corals
Researchers find that microplastic pollution has become a new threat to the health of ocean reefs
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Impatient Scientists Used Paint-By-Numbers Technique to Create the First Image From Mars
Scientists used raw data to create their first image of the red planet
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