In case you didn’t know, there was a solar eclipse on January 4th and Japan’s Hinode x-ray telescope satellite (which was set up to study the Sun’s magnetic fields) was in prime position to capture one of the best eclipse photographs that I have ever seen. [National Geographic via...

The conversation that transpired in the picture above is very real – there is a real Matthew and there is a real Jack – and Jack, as you can see, has a way with words. Asking a guy why his wife isn’t talking to him is no way for...

A compelling argument has been put forward that modern humans first started farming to cultivate grains that could be used to produce alcohol. Given this theory, there is little wonder that so many of us find the lure of the bottle a little too hard to resist… humanity has...

A self-educated scholar from Sydney has offered the world a new, significantly more gruesome picture of Neanderthal man....

A South African information technology company chose a novel way to prove how slow the country’s leading Internet service provider Telkom was, they strapped a memory card to a pigeon and had a data transfer race....

The “Lethal Pneumatic Ping Pong Ball Gun” is the work of Denver man Ron Kessinger. After firing off a few dry rounds, the guys fill some ping pong balls up with water and show why the gun deserves to have the word “lethal” in its name. According to one...

While most animals do not appreciate music, a recent study published in the latest Royal Society Biology Letters showed that monkeys, more particularly cotton-top tamarins, do; and their musical preference is likely to surprise a few people....

A small study by a team of doctors at the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London has shed light on a brain pathway abnormality that occurs among psychopaths....

The Shinoda Laboratory at Japan's prestigious Tokyo University has been experimenting with touchable holography....