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Look Up Tonight As the Lyrid Meteor Shower Hits Its Peak
Look to the northeast tonight to catch the peak of the annual meteor shower
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For the First Time in Nearly 30 Years an American Won the Boston Marathon
Meb Keflezighi’s win at the Boston Marathon is first American victory since Lisa Widenbach’s in 1985
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Less Than a Fourth of Jet-Wheel Stowaways Survive—And That’s a Generous Estimate
One teen recently survived a jet wheel ride from California to Hawaii
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The Wheelie Was Invented in 1890
A stunt bicyclist named Daniel Canary claims to be the first person to master the trick
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Mars’ Super-Thin Atmosphere May Mean that Flowing Water Was the Exception, Not the Rule
A new analysis suggests that Mars’ atmosphere was often too thin to support liquid water
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See All These New Energy Projects? Most of Them Are Renewables
In the next four years, U.S. renewable energy development will outpace conventional fuel plants
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Scurvy Plagued Columbus’ Crew, Even After the Sailors Left the Sea
Severe scurvy and malnutrition set the stage for the fall of La Isabela
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An Avalanche on Mount Everest Made This the Deadliest Day in the Mountain’s History
With at least 12 dead, today is worse than the day in 1996 when eight people were killed in a storm
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These MRI-Scanned Fruits And Vegetables Unfold Like Alien Births
An MRI technologist’s hobby turns every-day foods into something new and intriguing
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Lease a Haunted Venetian Island for 99 Years
Formerly a quarantine island for plague victims and an insane asylum, now you can call this island home
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Schools Ban Chocolate Milk; Kids Just Stop Drinking Milk Altogether
Kids wind up consuming less protein and wasting more milk when skim is all that’s on the shelves
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How Gabriel Garcia Marquez Became a Writer
Marquez attributed his writing to drawing as a child…and Franz Kafka
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The U.K. Is Weirdly Obsessed With Rhea Birds—Which Keep Escaping Their Owners
A rhea went on the lam in the U.K.—and is far from the first giant, flightless bird to do so
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Instead of Paying for Coffee, Mobile Workers Can Pay for Quiet
Working on the road? Now there’s an alternative to crowded coffee shops
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Real-Life True Blood Might Be Used in Trial Transfusions by 2016
Researchers in the U.K. have created the first man-made red blood cells of high enough quality to be introduced into the human body
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The Big “Gravitational Wave” Finding May Have Actually Just Been Some Dust
A supernova remnant interacting with interstellar dust could have caused the signals interpreted to be gravitational waves
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Missouri Wants to Use Military-Grade Sound Cannons to Slow Drivers Down
The LRAD sound cannon has been used to subdue protests, deter pirates and, now, slow down speeding drivers.
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Ancient Walls Show That Rome Is Older Than Legend
Romulus and Remus were 100 years late to the party
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Pot Smokers’ Brains Are Different
But we can’t say for sure whether it’s pot that made them that way
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