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Thailand—Where it Never Snows—Wins Snow Sculpture Contest
The festival, billed as an international gathering point that “evokes a pristine snow fantasy,” attracts around 2 million people each year
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By the year 2100, the human race will have lost about 50% of the languages alive today. Every fourteen days a language dies. There are some success stories
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This Bionic Man, With Working Machine Organs, Is Pretty Much the Creepiest Thing Ever
With artificial limbs and organs, Rex is a vision of a bionic future
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How to Sleep Like Salvador Dali
Dali felt as though sleep was a waste of time (so did Edison, and many other influential people) but science suggests that sleep is pretty important
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Your Playlist Really Does Impact Your Workout
A slow jam won’t get you through that third mile, and smooth jazz isn’t going to kick that kickboxing workout up a notch. It’s not just personal preference either - it’s science
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Is Your Dog as Smart as You Think?
Researchers are now starting to look into the question, and see just how intelligent our furry friends actually are
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How Do You Discover a 17 Million Digit Prime Number?
The 48th Mersenne prime was recently discovered on the computer of a man named Dr. Curtis Cooper, and it’s 17 million digits long
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Tour the Grand Canyon From Your Computer With Google Street View
Now, thanks to Google, you don’t need a plane ticket or hiking boots to experience some of the Grand Canyon’s geologic magic
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Parisian Women Legally Allowed to Wear Pants for the First Time in 200 Years
On January 31, France’s minister of women’s rights made if officially impossible to arrest a woman for wearing pants in Paris
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The Fastest Way to Send Big Chunks of Data Is Through the Mail, Not the Internet
The future of Big Data is in the post
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This Drone Can Fit In Your Palm
The Black Hornet currently rank as the world’s smallest military-grade spy drone, weighing just 16 grams and measuring at 4 inches long
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Whether it’s your eyelid twitching, an involuntary shudder, or a muscle elsewhere contracting at random, twitchy muscles happen to everyone. But what are they, and why do they happen?
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There’s No Such Thing as a Concussion-Proof Helmet
Essentially, if you put 15 inches of foam on the outside of the helmet, you can make a concussion free helmet. But that’s completely impractical
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Searching for the Russian Loch Ness Monster in a Frozen Siberian Lake
In a record-breaking dive, the head of the Russian Geographical Society sunk to the bottom of Lake Labynkyr in Siberia, one of the coldest lakes in the world
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Scientists Think They’ve Found Richard III’s Body Under a Parking Lot
Researchers announced this morning that the bones found beneath a parking lot in England are likely those of King Richard III
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This Japanese Theater Company Has a Robot Actress
No, it’s not Brent Spiner. It’s an honest-to-goodness robot
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Quantum Physicists Show What Time Travel Could Look Like
Quantum physics professors at the University of Ulm in Germany, have created a mathematically-accurate visual approximation of the hypothetical Gödel model of the universe. That is, they show what it would look like if you could simultaneously see past, present, and future versions of physical objects. Sandrine Ceurstemont of New Scientist, who compiled the video […]
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Lemurs Are the Most Endangered Mammals on the Planet, And This Adorable Baby Is Their Future
The vast majority of lemur species are facing extinction, but this baby Coquerel’s safika is trying to help
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The FBI Once Freaked Out About Nazi Monks in the Amazon Rainforest
In October 1941, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover received a strange bit of war intelligence in a classified document
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