Bees aren’t the most obvious choice when picking collaborators, but they’ve been cooperative in helping Canadian artist Aganetha Dyck create sculptures decorated with honeycomb. Her work is inspired by the […]

A member of NASA’s Expedition 38 crew on the International Space Station snapped this 600mm night view shot of Sochi, Russia a few days before the Olympics began. The “eye” […]

Stephen Hawking shares 10 of his best science jokes in this video series from the Science Channel. Charismatic and controversial, Hawking has no shortage of fans. Image credit: elhombredenegro/Flickr

As human development continues to encroach on nature, there’s now a proven solution for how wildlife and highways can peacefully co-exist. Wildlife crossings are commonly used to protect the migration […]

   

It’s fine to celebrate success, but more important are the lessons of failure.

Facebook Messenger has been getting destroyed in Europe and emerging markets. That’s the reason behind Facebook’s eye-popping $19 billion purchase of messaging service WhatsApp, announced Wednesday. As TechCrunch points out: […]

Pussy Riot members, preparing to perform on a public plaza in Sochi on Wednesday, were quickly stopped by a militia of Russian cossacks. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, recently freed from prison, was […]

Want indestructible skin that can withstand bullets? Scientists are experimenting with one of the toughest natural materials found on earth: spider silk. One day soon we can all be Spider-Man, […]

NASA scientists have been trying to figure out a mystery dating back to the Apollo moon missions, according to the Mother Nature Network. They may be closer to understanding what […]

Internet neutrality stands for everything we hold sacred: from freedom of information to freedom of expression. Let’s be clear about this–from raising awareness of human rights crises to crowd-funding projects […]

Autonomous vehicles and humanoid robotics are not the crowning achievements of our age. These are the warm up acts.   

Flowers, the reproductive organs of angiosperms, were a novel structure that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. 

Edward Frenkel, who is one of the leading mathematical physicists in the world, makes math look sexy. 

Why was it that when Galileo viewed Venus and Jupiter with the naked eye, Venus, the brighter planet, appeared larger, but when viewed through a telescope, Jupiter appeared larger?

Nearly 50 percent of American adults are single. And many of them are happily single. 

"I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love." - Aziz Ansari (born on this date in 1983)

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." - George Washington (born on this date in 1732)

"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat." - Anaïs Nin (born on this date in 1903)

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." - Ansel Adams