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Parties, work, and honeymoons, all on a bike.

Cool Finds

People Use Bike Shares to Get to Work And Parties

Now is probably a good time to say that biking while drunk is never a good idea

New Research

Here’s How Neuroscientists in the 1800s Studied Blood Flow in the Brain

New translations of early neuroscience reveal how in 1882 one Italian physiologist was able to measure blood flow changes in the brain

The Shroud of Turin's image is more consistent with this idea of crucifixion.

New Research

Some Visions of the Crucifixion Aren’t T-Shaped

Jesus and others who were crucified didn’t necessarily die with their arms pinned straight out, the way we often imagine them

Bison

Cool Finds

Bison Running Away From Earthquakes? Not So Fast

A video of bison running through Yellowstone sparked speculation that they were running away from an earthquake. They weren’t

Mayan Ruins

New Research

Mayas Used Spiked Clubs to Bash Combatant’s Heads

Analysis of skulls gives insight into violence in the Mayan culture

Panicum miliaceum, or broomcorn millet.

New Research

Ancient Wandering Shepherds Spread Crops Across Eurasia

The nomadic shepherds of central Asia joined east and west

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Cool Finds

This Skydiver Was Almost Hit by a Meteorite in Mid-Air

No one’s ever filmed a meteorite in dark flight

Cool Finds

The Majority of Web Traffic Comes From Robots

While humans may be very good at surfing the internet, this is yet another thing that robots do better

Enceladus as seen by Cassini.

New Research

Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus May Have a Giant Liquid Water Lake

New proof that Enceladus is a watery world

Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset

Cool Finds

Virtual Reality Could Change the Way We Travel

Innovations in virtual reality could change how we travel

Dinosaur Trackways

New Research

Almost 65 Years After Its Pieces Were Dispersed, Scientists Reconstructed a Long-Lost Dinosaur Chase

A lost set of dinosaur footprints in Texas has been reconstructed from 70-year-old photographs

New Research

Dingoes Aren’t Just Wild Dogs

Rather than being the descendants of feral mutts, dingoes are actually in their own unique taxonomical corner

New Research

Computers Are Learning How To Teach Each Other New Skills

Why would you teach a computer how to teach other computers how to murder more efficiently?

Pyongyang Marathon

Cool Finds

Want to Run a Marathon in North Korea? Here’s Your Chance

For the first time, the Mangyongdae Prize Marathon in Pyongyang, North Korea, is open to amateurs

Tourists Outside King Tut's Tomb

Cool Finds

Egypt Building a Fake Version of King Tut’s Tomb for Tourists

The original tomb is being damaged by constant visitors, so authorities are building another

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Cool Finds

Watch How Tuesday’s Tsunami Waves Moved From Chile All the Way to Australia

A computer model shows how the tsunami crossed the Pacific

A replica of Sputnik 1 at the National Air and Space Museum.

Trending Today

Even During the Cold War, Russian and U.S. Rocket Scientists Were Friends, But Now They’re No Longer Talking

U.S. and Soviet scientists worked together throughout the Cold War, but now, because of Crimea, those ties are being cut

New Research

Oxytocin Encourages People to Think More About the Group, Less About Themselves

It’s not that oxytocin makes people act in a good or bad way, just in a way that best serves the interests of their people

New Research

Crummy Weather Can Lead to Harsher Online Restaurant Reviews

Are you sure you didn’t like the food? Maybe it was just the weather…

Carcinogenic material was used as a finish coating in this painting.

New Research

Byzantine Monks Built Walls With Asbestos, Too

In millennia past, asbestos has also been used to make stronger pottery and flame-proof napkins

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