From the ‘things that make you go hmmmm” department: behold the sand-grain house built by Difflugia coronata, a single-celled amoeba...
Britain’s Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees has been announced as the recipient of the 2011 Templeton Prize, an award that...
How to horrify any person worried about the imminent rise of the machines: take one car seat with 5-point racing...
Here’s an epic Rube Goldberg machine, designed to turn the page of the newspaper by taking a sip of coffee...
Eat your heart out Harry Potter: who needs CGI, when you can fight an opponent with *real* streams of lightning...
Put a pillow on the floor for your jaw and feast your eyes on this 1.3 billion pixel panorama of...
A fruit fly (G. tridens) with images of jumping spiders ‘painted’ on its wings. Aw c’mon, Evolution! Now you’re just...
Take Neil deGrasse Tyson (host of the new series of Cosmos), get him talking on the topic of Isaac Newton,...