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Scientists Figured Out How to Make People “Feel” an Otherworldly Presence
Feeling like a ghost or an angel is near is likely caused by a blip in how our brain processes self awareness and our sense of place in space
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Arctic Squirrels Use Steroids to Bulk Up But Don’t Suffer the Consequences
Fat alone couldn’t get these squirrels through hibernation in burrows that get almost as chilly as -10 degrees Fahrenheit
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The Navy SEAL Who Says He Shot Bin Laden Goes Public
Robert O’Neill says he is the SEAL who killed bin Laden
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The Foolproof Way to Fix a Wobbly Table
Solving life’s challenges one at a time—with math!
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The International Space Station Just Avoided a Collision With Space Junk
A four-minute maneuver by a docked, unmanned European spacecraft pushed the ISS out of the path of a hand-sized chuck of space debris
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Atari Games That No One Wanted Now Selling for $500 a Pop
No one wanted Atari’s E.T. in 1982, but they want it now
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Smaug the Dragon And Other Unexpected Airport Surprises
There’s more to the world’s airports than newsstands and food courts
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Virgin Galactic’s Aggressive Plan to Get Back in the Air
The company hopes to resume flying with a new ship by summer 2015
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Nearly 400 Journalists Have Been Murdered Over the Past Ten Years
Only ten percent of their killers are ever reprimanded
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A Lone Gray Wolf May Have Wandered Into the Grand Canyon
Officials haven’t confirmed whether the canine is a full-blooded gray wolf, but wolf advocates are pretty convinced
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Even Climate Scientists Are Getting Depressed by Our Lack of Progress
Anxiety about the changing environment isn’t just affecting you and professionals are working to understand it
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Guy Fawkes May Be the Root of the Word “Guys”
The word’s meaning has changed a lot throughout the centuries
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What Happens When Western And Traditional Chinese Medicine Merge
These two treatment philosophies were previously seen as being diametrically opposed, but some experts think the systems can complement each another
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Should We Use Satellites to Keep an Eye on Remote Amazonian Tribes?
Satellite monitoring could help keep tabs on indigenous people without invasive visits to their remote homes
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Scratching an Itch Soothes, But Then Your Brain Makes it Worse
Pain overrides itchiness temporarily but neurotransmitters released to cope with that pain reactivate the itch neurons
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Left-Handed People Have Less Specialized Brains
Diversity means flexibility, even if being left-handed can be super annoying
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These Giant Circles in the Mideast Are One of the World’s Last Mysteries
Archaeologists have found more than a dozen ancient circles in Turkey, Syria and Jordan—but don’t know why they were built
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Scotland Is No Longer Home to the World’s Best Whiskys
When it comes to whisky, Japan, the US and even England now reign supreme
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A Horse Racing Favorite Died Minutes After Completing the Melbourne Cup
Admire Rakti wasn’t even the only horse to die at the races
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