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Newsflash: Technology Cannot Guarantee a Baby

The unregulated egg freezing industry is profitable for those involved, but prone to failure for those looking to get pregnant

October 27, 2014

Cool Finds

Your Cat Has No Idea What You Want And Is Kind of Scared of You

Cats don’t do social skills

October 27, 2014

Cool Finds

Rosetta’s Comet Smells Really, Really Bad

If you could breathe in space, you wouldn’t want to breathe this air

October 27, 2014

Cool Finds

How the Gates Foundation Is Making Cassava the Next Corn

Sophisticated plant breeding techniques (but no GMOs) and lots of money are aimed at improving this staple crop of the tropics

October 24, 2014

New Research

40 Percent of Adult Internet Users Have Been Harassed Online

Harassment runs rampant online

October 24, 2014

New Research

Stone Age Shelter in Peru is the Oldest, Highest Human Settlement

Researchers found campfires and rock art at nearly 14,700 feet, suggesting ancient people lived high just 2,000 years after they reached South America

October 24, 2014

Halloween

How to Grow a Giant Pumpkin

Science!

October 24, 2014

Cool Finds

Antarctic Explorer’s Journal Found In Melting Ice

George Murray Levick served as a photographer, zoologist and surgeon with the North Party

October 24, 2014

New Research

Invaders From Cuba Force Florida Lizards to Quickly Evolve (Or Get Out)

In just 15 years, green anoles changed their behavior and evolved bigger, stickier toes to escape alien competitors

October 24, 2014

Cool Finds

Build a Cloud Chamber for Cheap And See Particles From Outer Space

A simple device lets you see cosmic rays’ effects with your own eyes

October 24, 2014

New Research

Male Great Bustards Eat Poison to Look Sexier for the Ladies

The toxic compound can kill mammals - including humans - but helps the birds rid themselves of pests

October 24, 2014

New Research

Vibrating Micro-Bubbles Let Drugs Sneak Across the Blood-Brain Barrier

Ultrasound technology and micro-bubbles together have pried open one of the most resistant barriers in the body

October 23, 2014

Cool Finds

Quarrying for Marble Looks Unreal

A film excerpt follows the boss at an open-pit marble quarry in Carrara, Italy

October 23, 2014

Cool Finds

From Lightning on Jupiter to Apollo 13’s Call for Help, Hear Some of NASA’s Greatest Recordings

An audio archive captures some iconic moments of space history

October 23, 2014

New Research

A Swarm of Comets Around an Alien Star Hints at Our Solar System’s Youth

The comets fall in two groups — one older and one younger — and have to contend with the orbit of a gas giant

October 23, 2014

Cool Finds

This Awesome Synthesizer Turns the Weather Into Song

Hear the pitter-patter of rain in a new way

October 23, 2014

New Research

Lose Ice in Alaska, See Temperatures Spike By 7°C

This puts the goal of keeping temperature rises below 2°C to shame

October 23, 2014

New Research

The Amazon Rainforest Disappeared Way More Quickly This Year

Widespread deforestation is even worse than you think

October 23, 2014

Cool Finds

Sea Coral Makes Excellent Human Bone Grafts

Coral’s porous structure, with some chemical tweaks, is the perfect place for new bone and tissue to grow

October 23, 2014

Cool Finds

Wreckage of a Nazi U-Boat Was Found Off the Coast of North Carolina

A freighter lost in that skirmish was also discovered in the “graveyard of the Atlantic”

October 23, 2014