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Great Britain Still Has Significant Debt From World War I
The U.K. is committing itself to paying off a small fraction of that debt next year by issuing new debt
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How to Protect the Lincoln Memorial From Crazy Flooding
The capital city’s decades-old system of levees to keep water back during storms and flooding is getting an upgrade
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Fanged Deer Not Extinct, Still Roaming the Mountains of Afghanistan
The Kashmir musk deer was last spotted in 1948 but now researchers report five recent sightings
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What SpaceShipTwo’s Crash Means for Virgin Galactic And Private Spaceflight
Private spaceflight may see tighter federal regulation
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Get Down With This Year’s “Dance Your PhD” Winners
Acrobatic human tornadoes and pair-dancing inertial confinement fusion implosions are among this year’s favorites
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Rovers Disguised as Baby Penguins Can Quietly Infiltrate Penguin Colonies
Normally wary penguins seem unfazed when there’s a smartly dressed robot in their midst
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Just Crashed in California
The private spaceflight company was testing a new fuel for their experimental spaceship
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Did the Gladiators Drink an Energy Drink Made of Ash?
Gladiators were getting extra calcium in their diet
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We Can Measure How Traffic Vibrates the Earth
Special instruments called geophones help researchers distinguish the signatures of big trucks rumbling down the highway and planes taking off
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Scientists Are Pretty Sure Survivors Can’t Transmit Ebola Sexually
Research suggests Ebola survivors aren’t infectious, but scientists aren’t ruling it out
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Your Reaction to “Gross” Pictures Can Betray Your Political Beliefs
Liberal and conservative brains show different activity patterns when they look at pictures of things typically thought of as disgusting
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Someone Just Bought an Entire Connecticut Ghost Town for $1.2 Million
Johnsonville was once a 62-acre mill village
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Australia’s Koalas Have Chlamydia, But a New Vaccine Could Save Them
The sexually transmitted disease threatens the health of one of Australia’s iconic marsupials
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This Newly Forming Planet Will Have Three Suns
A triple-star system has two disks of gas and dust that could form planets
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Why Doctors Still Don’t Know What’s Causing a Paralysis-Inducing Illness in Children
More children are showing up with limb flaccidness than health officials would expect, but the illness remains rare and mysterious
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Researchers from the frontline of the fight against Ebola must cancel their plans to attend an upcoming conference in New Orleans
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Researchers Grew Miniature Human Stomachs from Stem Cells
The tiny lab dish-dwelling organs will help researchers monitor the progression of disease and test new drugs
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Pat Yourself on the Back, America: The U.S. Is Not Freaking Out About Ebola (For the Most Part)
Poll numbers show most Americans aren’t succumbing to the fear over Ebola
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The European Space Agency Has Made the Weirdest Short Film
The ESA’s advertising Rosetta with a very unusual sci-fi short
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