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Aircraft Hunters Think They’ve Found a Scrap of Amelia Earhart’s Plane
This isn’t the first time a seemingly game-changing piece of evidence about Earhart’s disappearance has arisen, however
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Rainbows Don’t Include Purple Light, So Why Do They Sometimes Seem To?
Supernumerary rings, supernumerary rings, supernummrings
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Artists In Search of Inspiration Can Now Find Their Muse On a Cargo Ship
Container ships now join Amtrak trains, dune shacks and remote islands in the Arctic circle as sights dedicated to artistic pursuit
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A Couple’s First Two Kids Make Them Briefly Happier; the Third Not So Much
Older couples get the most joy from their new addition to the family, teens the least
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This Headline Is Trying to Manipulate You, And It’s Working
Bad headlines stick with you, even if you read the story
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Google Is Working on a Pill That Can Figure Out What Ails You
Microscopic particles will spy on the cells of your body and look for any disease, including cancer
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Giant Tortoises Have Made a Comeback From 15 to 1,000
Española giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Galapagos National Park and are breeding on their own
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You’ll Soon Be Able to Talk to London And Manchester’s Statues
Just scan a tag near the statues with your cell, and they’ll call you with a quick first-person history lesson
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Ancient Easter Islanders Likely Sailed Back And Forth to South America
The 4,600-mile roundtrip couldn’t have been easy—even for people who had already migrated from Polynesia in wooden outrigger canoes
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The Antares Rocket Explosion Wasn’t Orbital Sciences’ First Big Malfunction
Orbital Sciences has lost some of NASA’s gear before, because going to space is really, really hard
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Found: Millions of Gallons of Missing Oil From Deepwater Horizon
Oil that sank to the seafloor left a ring the size of Rhode Island
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What Appears to Be a Complete Mammoth Skeleton Was Discovered in an Idaho Ditch
A nearby reservoir has just covered the fossil in water, however, postponing the excavation
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Reminder: Keep Your Boat AWAY From NASA’s Rocket Launches
A mission to the ISS was cancelled because of a wayward boat
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The Pope Would Like You to Accept Evolution and the Big Bang
The Roman Catholic Church is pro-evolution and Big Bang, but with a twist
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Lava Is Poised to Consume Some Homes in Hawaii
Lava is creeping across the Big Island’s Puna district at a rate of about 10 to 15 yards per hour
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We’re Terrible at Distinguishing Real And Fake Schools of Fish
You can test your fish school savviness in a free online game created by scientists
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When Becoming a Man Means Sticking Your Hand Into a Glove of Ants
Young men must subject themselves to a ritual involving bullet ant-filled gloves not once but 20 times
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Do You Make Better Decisions When Hungry?
Results from tests on university students contradict the notion that hunger makes you impulsive, instead it might make you intuitive
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A Zoo Python Had Six Babies in a “Virgin Birth”
The 20-foot-long reptile hadn’t had a chance to meet a mate, but she still laid 61 eggs
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