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Oxford Launches New Hunt for Yeti DNA Samples
Yeti Footprint A mysterious footprint found in the Himalayas in March 1976. Wikimedia Commons In the bizarre world of cryptozoology, the yeti looms large, its potential existence the stuff of legend...
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Russian Space Chief: 'We're Talking About Establishing Permanent Bases' On...
Destination: the Moon Bob Familiar via Wikimedia Yesterday, the heads of the space agencies for Europe, Canada, Russia, India, and Japan met in Washington D.C. (without NASA, which had all hands on...
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Would You Ride This Pencil-Shaped Capsule To Space?
Tycho Brahe That's a dummy head in there at the top. Copenhagen Suborbitals The amateur rocketeers at Copenhagen Suborbitals are getting closer and closer to orbit, testing a new bi-liquid fuel...
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Snazzy All-in-One "Vancouver Poles" to Replace Ugly Urban Forest of Cell...
V-Pole Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson with an illustration of a V-Pole (V for Vancouver). Martin Tessler & Mathew Bulford/V-Pole.com Streetlamps, cell phone towers and parking meters lend a...
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Video: Paratrooping Roomba-Style Drone Concept Could Help Clean Oil Spills
Roomba Sea Drones A new design concept that's a little familiar. Hsu Sean Clearing the muck from an oil spill is tough enough without having to worry about collateral damage, but designer Hsu Sean is...
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Pumping Well Water Out of the Ground May Be a Culprit in Rising Sea Levels
Pumping Water From the Ground Eventually, it ends up in the ocean. USDA When we think of rising sea levels, we think of global climate change and melting ice caps. Yet there's a disparity in the raw...
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Video: In Record-Breaking Parachuteless Skydive, Man Jumps 2,400 Feet Into a...
Gary Connery Before breaking a record from 2,400 feet up. The Independent Gary Connery broke the record today for skydiving sans parachute and also, presumably, took home a gold medal in being a...
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A New Way to Keep Deep-Sea Creatures Alive at the Surface
Short Shelf Life Animals that thrive deep below the sea's surface [such as, at 6,000 feet, Mirocaris fortunata shrimp, shown here] can withstand surface pressure for only a few weeks. Oceanopolis The...
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Magnetic Jet Injection Device Can Shoot Any Drug Through the Skin, No Needle...
Whether you're at the doctor's office or taking medicine at home, future injections could be a lot less painful with this new gadget developed at MIT. Instead of a sterile metal point penetrating your...
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Today in Good Reads: A Q&A With a Military Bioethicist
Jonathan Moreno Wikimedia Commons Vice's Motherboard has a great Q&A up with Jonathan Moreno, author of Mind Wars and an expert on the topic of neuroscience in the military. And seeing as how the...
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Watch: Neil Armstrong Narrates His Moon Landing In a Rare TV Interview
Neil Armstrong During Apollo 11 Buzz Aldrin took this photo after Armstrong completed his lunar EVA during Apollo 11. NASA/via Wikimedia The immortal first words on the moon, uttered so shakily by a...
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Organic Carbon Found on Mars Rocks Is Not Life, New Study Says
Mars Phoenix Lander and Rocks The Phoenix lander prepares to grate some Martian rocks. NASA Since the Viking landers' footpads touched down on Mars, scientists have been searching for complex carbon...
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2011's Top 10 New Species: Spongebob Squarepants 'Shroom, Sneezing Monkey and...
Sneezing Monkey Found by scientists conducting a gibbon survey in the mountains of Myanmar, Rhinopithecus strykeri, a snubnosed primate, is critically endangered. It sneezes when rain gets inside its...
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This Summer, Take a Class on How to Design a Space Hotel
Astro-Design Class Earth 2 Orbit If you're wondering what new skills you should learn this summer, and you live in or are comfortable moving to Milan, maybe you should check out Susmita Mohanty's class...
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Backpack Radar Can Detect Ambushers Within 150 Acres
SpotterRF M600C Offering a motion-sensitive look from a long way away. SpotterRF If you're a soldier suspecting an ambush, you probably don't have much time to spare, and you definitely can't afford to...
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SpaceX Dragon Successfully Captured by International Space Station
SpaceX Docks NASA Just minutes ago, via the NASA TV stream, we learned that the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft has successfully been attached to the International Space Station--the very first private...
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There Will Be Enough Giant Phones Sold in 2015 to Pave Monaco
Samsung Galaxy Note at Window Dan Nosowitz A firm of analysts has just issued a report predicting that shipments of giant smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy Note, will reach a completely bonkers 208...
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NASA Says: Please Don't Touch Our Stuff When You Go to the Moon
NASA Rover Diagram A chart detailing what not to touch up there. NASA Dear intrepid lunar explorers: NASA politely asks that, when you travel to the moon, you refrain from messing with the American...
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Simple Project of the Month: Make Your Photos Into Comic Strips With Speech...
Speech Bubbles Jordan Ferney The closer we can make life to a comic strip, the better off everyone will be. Here's an easy way to make homemade speech bubbles. STEP ONE Affix a piece of chalkboard...
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The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, May 21-25, 2012
SkyDive Stuntman Gary Connery makes the highest non-protected--like, without a parachute--skydive ever, crashing 2,400 feet into a pile of boxes. Read more here. Getty Images Just like a great dish,...
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