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Want MLB Players To Suck Less And Stay In The League Longer? Give Them Naps
Jeremy HermidaRon ReiringOr some kind of downtime, at least. Two studies find negative effects for MLB players when they get worn out. The slog of the baseball season isn't easy on a player, unless...
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Does The Tesla Model S Electric Car Pollute More Than An SUV?
Does the supposedly clean, green Tesla Model S really pollute more than a gas-guzzling Jeep Grand Cherokee sport-utility vehicle? That's what one analyst has claimed. In an exhaustive 6,500-word...
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How People Die On Mount Everest [Infographic]
Avalanches, exposure, heart attacks, and the other tragic ways Everest has claimed climbers' lives. Last week, 80-year-old Yuichiro Miura became the oldest person to climb Mount Everest. Amazing, but...
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Happening Now: An Asteroid And Its Moon Sail Past Earth
First Radar Images of 1998 QE2NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSRThe pair will come their closest at 4:59 pm ET today. An asteroid is sailing past Earth today, and it's bringing along some luggage. At 4:59 pm ET,...
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UN Expert Worries About Killer Robots, Ignores The Ones That Already Exist
Fictional F/A-37A fictional autonomous robot fighter plane from the 2005 movie "Stealth."Wikimedia CommonsAutonomous war robots are coming. Panicking about them will only make things worse. Yesterday,...
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The Week In Numbers: The Fastest Human, Nerf's Longest-Range Gun, And More
Countdown to Soyuz rocket launch, May 28, 2013NASA/Bill Ingalls5 hours and 39 minutes: the time, from launch to docking, it took this week's Soyuz crew to get from Earth to the International Space...
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Where Is The Next Carl Sagan?
Subjective MeasuresRyan SnookBefore people will understand science, scientists must understand people. In 1954, a study published by Princeton and Dartmouth researchers asked their students to watch a...
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Building A Better Bomb Detector
Artificial Nose? Istockphoto.com & Iñaki Antoñana Plaza/Getty ImagesDogs are the best bomb detectors we have. Can scientists do better? It's Christmas season at the Quintard Mall, in Oxford,...
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The Energy Fix: When Will The U.S. Reach Energy Independence? [Infographic]
What government forecasts suggest about U.S. energy independence Since long before the rise in big data, the U.S. Energy Information Administration has tracked the country's energy consumption and...
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How The Turtle Got Its Shell
The Indian Star TortoiseWikimedia CommonsPictured: a turtle with a really cool shell. The turtle shell isn't like any other protective element of any living animal: it's not an exoskeleton, like some...
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USDA Aims To Grow White Rice With All The Nutrients Of Brown Rice
Checking the RiceResearchers examine rice plants. Geneticist Shannon Pinson is in the foreground.Photo by Stephen AusmusThe rice would help those who suffer from mineral deficiencies in developing...
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First Images Of How A Molecule's Structure Changes In A Reaction
Before and After the ReactionUC BerkeleyVisualizing chemistry is awesome! Researchers have for the first time captured atomic-scale images of molecules before and after a chemical reaction--a...
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Check Out This Giant Inflatable Hangar For A Solar-Powered Plane
Solar Impulse Inflatable HangarSolar ImpulseInstead of flying out of Dallas and touching down in a reserved hangar, the sun-powered plane Solar Impulse will land in an inflatable structure for part...
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These Artificially Intelligent Legos Look Awesome
Motorized Legos fight under human or computer command. For better or worse, Legos haven't changed all that much since the company's founding back in 1932. But a partnership with Sony might change the...
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Where Does Foreign Aid Go? [Infographic]
Foreign Aid to Iraq in 2005Hannah DavisThe most fascinating part of this infographic is what it obscures. This interactive infographic by NYU graduate student Hannah Davis shows the global distribution...
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Watch A Terrifying, Beautiful Electrical Storm From A Plane Window
Terrifying for anyone on the plane, but an awesome video for us back on solid ground. If you've got even the slightest fear of flying, this might not be what you want to see when you look out the...
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Make Your Own Small-Batch, Artisanal High Fructose Corn Syrup
DIY High-Fructose Corn Syrupvia Bon AppetitDelicious DIY sugarglop. Think of corn on a hot summer's day. Sweet, delicious, all-American corn. It's stuck in your teeth and you barely care, as your...
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Astronomers Find The Lightest Exoplanet Ever Caught On Camera
Exoplanet HD 95086 b, next to its parent starThe star itself was removed from the picture during processing to enhance the view of the faint exoplanet, which appears at the lower left.ESO's Very Large...
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FYI: Do We Really Get Cold Feet When We Have The Jitters?
Julia Roberts as Maggie Carpenter, the queen of cold feet, in Runaway Bride YouTubeTurns out the phrase "cold feet" actually has some, erm, scientific footing. We all remember Julia Roberts in Runaway...
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Did Neil Armstrong's Ohio Accent Obscure The 'A' In His Famous Quote?
Neil Armstrong During Apollo 11NASA/via WikimediaResearchers say the Midwestern astronaut might really have said "one small step for a man." Even after all these years, there's some debate on what,...
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