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8 Of The Year's Most Oddly Gorgeous Science Images
Maze DwellerA goby fish peeks out of the coral it lives in. Goby fish are good housekeepers--they may remove algae from the coral that would otherwise smother it, undergraduate Chhaya Werner explained....
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The Week In Numbers: Fire In Space, The First Cloned Human Embryo, And More
Grains of interstellar dust stretching across a segment of the Orion NebulaESO/Digitized Sky Survey 21,350 light-years: the distance to a "fiery ribbon" stretching across the Orion Nebula, captured...
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Study Finds Correlation Between Fiscal Conservatism And Big Biceps
Cool BicepsWikimedia CommonsDoes physical strength lead to conservative beliefs? A new study in the journal Psychological Science took a look at the relationship between physical strength and political...
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FYI: Do Parasites Get Parasites?
Parasites of Parasites Science picture co/ Getty ImagesParasites of parasites-sometimes called hyperparasites-seem to be quite common. In fact, parasites of parasites are themselves prone to parasites,...
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FYI: Do Wind Farms Make It Less Windy?
Wind Turbines Giorgio Magini/ Getty ImagesRelated: Do they change the surrounding temperature? Wind turbines extract kinetic energy from the air around them, and since less energy makes for weaker...
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Mars Rover Opportunity Travels Farther Than A NASA Vehicle Has Ever Traveled...
Opportunity rolling along the western rim of Endeavour CraterNASA/JPL-CaltechTo the 22.22 mile marker, and beyond. Curiosity may be everyone's favorite Mars robot these days, but it has a long way to...
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Spring 2012 Was The Earliest On Record
Signs of SpringtimeUSDAA prematurely sprung spring caused trouble with crops, insects, and pollen, according to a new report. Remember the 80-degree days and early daffodils last March? It wasn't just...
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Navy Dolphins Searching For Mines Uncover Sunken 19th Century Torpedo
19th Century TorpedoU.S. Navy via Los Angeles TimesIt's only the second torpedo of its kind ever found. Dolphins have been used for 50 years to help the U.S. Navy echolocate mines. That project is...
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Yahoo! Officially Acquires Tumblr For $1.1 Billion
Yahooblrvia TumblrYahoo, a service people used to use, spends lots and lots of money on Tumblr, a service people use now. And by "people" we mean "teens." Hence the purchase. Marissa Mayer, the new-ish...
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FYI: Can A Bionic Eye See As Well As A Human Eye?
First Bionic EyeSecond SightIt's the difference between a grainy black-and-white film and HD. Previously blind patients who receive the recently FDA-approved Argus II bionic eye system will regain some...
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South Pole Lab Detects Elusive Deep-Space Neutrinos For The First Time
IceCube TelescopeIceCube Collaboration/National Science FoundationAfter two years of searching, the icy observatory has finally found evidence of the high-energy particles, which may have come from a...
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How Science Got The 'Crack Baby' Epidemic So Wrong
America on crackvia NYTA New York Times mini-documentary examines the flawed science behind the 1980s 'crack baby' scare. The New York Times has a fascinating documentary on the crack cocaine epidemic...
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Candy Totally Won't Make You Fat, Says Study Funded By Big Candy
Candy SticksSteve SnodgrassIt's cool to eat as much candy as you want, you guys, no problem, just live off the stuff. Good news, guys! Candy isn't going to make you fat or kill you or anything negative...
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Giant Carnivorous Plant Found In Silicon Valley
Darlingtonia californica, subspecies YahoonicaWikimedia CommonsThe precise method by which Yahoo! digests and dissolves its prey. Yahoo! is a carnivorous plant whose prey-trapping mechanism features a...
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Another Big Milestone For The X-47B: Its First Touch And Go Landing
X-47B touch and goMass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Timothy WalterThe Navy's unmanned, autonomous combat jet demonstrator continues to successfully pass milestones for unmanned aviation The...
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IMDB's Greatest Movies Ever, Beautifully Organized By Genre [Infographic]
Sorry, animated movies. Drama is top dog. You probably have your own choice for Greatest Movie Of All Time. But what do the masses say? The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has a set of picks, rated by...
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Number Of Published Cancer Studies That Can't Be Reproduced Is Shockingly High
Battling Cancer With A VaccineMedi-MationHalf of cancer scientists have failed to reproduce the findings of other researchers, according to an anonymous survey. In an anonymous survey taken by...
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Norwegian Geologists Begin Drone-Guided Quest For Oil
Looking For Oil With DronesResearcher Aleksandra Sima at Bergen's Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research (CIPR), part of the team using UAS for geological survey and exploration.Eivind...
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Google Maps Helps People Find Families They Lost Decades Ago
Zooming InSatellite imagery from Google Maps of Guangan, China, the hometown of Luo Gang.Google MapsAmong those of us who grew up with the Internet, some have found unexpected, outsize benefits. If you...
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What We Know (And Think We Know) About The New Xbox
Xbox Infinity MockupThis is a not-official but still very nice mock-up made for Xbox Infinity (which might not be the new Xbox's name, either).Reddit/C-RonTomorrow, Microsoft will announce the new...
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