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Facial Plastic Surgery Doesn't Make People More Attractive, Study Finds
Heidi PrattHeidi Montag, now named Heidi Pratt after her marriage, is one of many celebrities known for getting plastic surgery. The procedures she has received include many beyond those studied in the...
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What Are The Most Lactose Intolerant Places In The World? [Infographic]
Milk Zonevia NatureWhether you can digest milk comfortably after childhood is a genetic fluke. For many people, the ability to produce lactase--the enzyme that allows the body to break down lactase,...
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To Make An Unbreakable Code, Use Quantum Physics
Enigma machinevia Wikimedia CommonsAs soon as you try to crack it, the encryption changes. During World War II, the Nazis used a famously complex code machine to communicate military orders, assuming...
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Way Too Many Britons Creepshot Hot Strangers
Creepshot!Wikimedia CommonsReal creepy, U.K. Here in New York, there are lots of reasons to take pictures of strangers who aren't expecting it. The crazy lady pooping on the L train platform at Union...
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Watch A Squishy Gel Transform Into Robotic Claws
The "ionoprinting" process converts gels into machines What you see here are hydrogels--squishy, aqueous semi-solids--being turned into tiny machines. By wiring a copper electrode to hydrogels (in any...
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The Next Best Thing To Being A NASA Engineer: This Mars Rover Simulator
The game lets you plan and execute rover missions! Curiosity just celebrated its first Mars-iversary, so why not celebrate by enjoying this awesome-looking Mars simulator, Take On Mars? The game lets...
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Big Pic: A Stunning View Of Phytoplankton From Space
Phytoplankton Bloom, North Atlantic, July 2013Jeff Schmaltz - MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFCA big population of little guys Any individual phytoplankton--a single-celled, photosynthetic...
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How To Create The Perfect Workspace, According To Science
Angry OfficeMark Sebastian via FlickrOptimize your performance. Or just make it pretty. There's nothing worse than sitting in a dull, drab cubicle. If you're going to be stuck in one place for 40 or...
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Why One Nation Wants To Turn Its Undersea Volcanoes Into A National Park
New Species in Loki's Castlevia University of BergenBack in 2008, researchers discovered a massive hydrothermal vent system in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, between Greenland and Norway. This is basically a...
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Scare Tactics Don't Stop People From Using Drugs
Marijuana MadnessDreamstimeInformation about how terrible drugs and alcohol are for your health doesn't seem to be an effective deterrent, a new study says. For years, anti-drug and anti-smoking ads...
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Who Would Take A One-Way Trip To Mars? This Woman.
Katrina Wolfe wants to go to MarsCourtesy Katrina WolfeKatrina Wolfe, a 24-year-old video game designer, wants to live and die on Mars. Mars One, a Netherlands-based private spaceflight project,...
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The Week In Numbers: Humanity's Last Common Ancestor, The Birth Of NASA, And...
Sardinian FishermenTwo men go fishing the traditional way off the coast of the Italian island of Sardinia. One new study of human ancestry used the genetic diversity of Sardinian men to determine the...
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What It'd Be Like To Drown In Space
Water doesn't fill a helmet so much as attempt to choke the life out of you. The horrifying behind-the-scenes, below. Two weeks ago, we were impressed by how calm ground control stayed when Italian...
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The First Lab-Grown Hamburger Is Served
The First Lab-Grown BurgerCultured BeefBeef cells cultured without killing the animal Since 2008, Dr. Mark Post has been working on growing edible meat in a laboratory. Today, at an event in London,...
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What Spying Looked Like In The 1960s
Covering SnoopsLIFE Magazine/LIFE.comLife magazine's cover story from 1966 gives us a glimpse of what privacy invasion used to mean. With all the depressing, worrisome news floating around this summer...
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This Mona Lisa Replica Is Thinner Than A Human Hair
30-Micron Mona LisaGeorgia TechIt's a 30-micron masterpiece. A team of researchers from Georgia Tech has created the "Mini Lisa," a 30-micron thick version of the Mona Lisa. That makes it about...
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Big Pic: Underground Machines For Detecting Dark Matter
Underground CosmologyEnrico SacchettiGoing deep underground in search of the elusive particles Almost a mile beneath Gran Sasso mountain in Italy sits the DarkSide detector. DarkSide, which started...
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Barbie's Newest Career: Mars Explorer
Mars Explorer Barbie: Close UpThomas PayneHere are 8 things she needs to know before she climbs into the rocket. One year to the day after Curiosity made its incredible sky-crane landing onto Mars,...
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Expired Patents Turned Into Models You Can 3-D Print
Flower Stand 3-D Print DesignMartin Galese on Makerbot ThingiverseQuaint and awesome Looking for a new project for your 3-D printer? New York lawyer Martin Galese has an idea. He's turned drawings from...
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FYI: Why Does My Voice Sound Different When I Hear It On A Recording?
Tone DeafiStockIt sounds different because it is different. "When you speak, the vocal folds in your throat vibrate, which causes your skin, skull and oral cavities to also vibrate, and we perceive...
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