Humans Have Messed Up The Planet So Rapidly That Trees Are Migrating
As the evidence that human activity and pollution are quickly warming our planet continues to pile up, researchers are now noticing a particularly shocking side…
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New Discovery Shows T-Rex's Bite Could Make Bones 'Explode'
Everyone knows that the Tyrannosaurus rex — the mighty "king" of the dinosaurs — was a fearsome carnivore. There's been plenty of debate over how…
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Researchers Warn That Hacked Industrial Robots Could Kill In More Ways Than One
Robotic workers have already revolutionized several different manufacturing industries, and as the tireless machines grow smarter and smarter, the risks posed by hackers continue to ramp…
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Scientists Just Discovered Something Incredible About The Dinosaur-Killer Asteroid
Determining why the dinosaurs went extinct has been debated for ages and studied for even longer. Now, the most acceptable extinction event hypothesis — that…
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Gaze Upon This Plastic Garbage Island And Question If Capitalism Is Really Worth It
Humans are just the worst, at least as far as the wellbeing of the Earth is concerned. We've done plenty of horrible things to this…
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Watch North Korea's New Missile Soar While You Contemplate The Fate Of Humanity
After a tense few weeks of North Korea shouting at the world, launching things into the air, and many other countries subsequently shouting back, it doesn't…
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A Gigantic, Bloody Dead Thing Just Washed Up In Indonesia And Nobody Knows What It Is
The sea still holds great mysteries for mankind. A few examples of this are the peculiar disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle, the origins of the…
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Cops Are Now Using AI To Predict Crime Before It Happens
In a timely reminder that we're pretty much living in a sci-fi future that writers from the 1950s could only have dreamed of, law enforcement…
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This NASA Video Will Teach You More About Clouds Than You've Ever Wanted To Know
From the perspective of us here on Earth, clouds are usually pretty boring. Sure, sometimes we spot one that looks cool or see a unique…
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NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Didn't Find Anything, And Scientists Can't Believe It
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has made a big name for itself by being a reliable source of really awesome photographs of parts of Saturn and its…
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Experts Discover 'Christopher Columbus' Anchor At Caribbean Shipwreck Site
EXCLUSIVE: Experts have used a "space treasure map" to make a remarkable discovery in the Caribbean -- a centuries-old anchor believed to be from one…
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Researchers Built An Automated Robot That Specializes In Drilling Through Human Skulls
One trope shared among all the fictional depictions of a futuristic robot uprising is the idea that, because we've taught robots so much about how humans function,…
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This New Battery Tech Breakthrough Could Mean Even Faster Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicles have a few key advantages over traditional combustion-powered cars, and one of the biggest is the potential for extreme acceleration. The Tesla Model…
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This AI Can Learn Your Voice And Mimic It In A Minute Or Less, And That's Incredibly Scary
When it comes to personal privacy and overall security, we often think of passwords, fingerprints, and even our own faces as being the keys that…
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MIT Invented A Robot That Can 3D-Print An Entire Building
3D printing has slowly gone from a curious novelty to a totally viable option for creating all kinds of useful things, from chocolate to athletic shoes,…
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NASA's Meteorite-Resistant Space Fabric Is Like Futuristic Chainmail
NASA is usually so busy showing off all the awesome stuff it finds out in space that it's easy to lose track of the cool…
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History-Changing Discovery Suggests Homo Sapiens Were Not The First Humans In America
For decades, the accepted theory of human migration suggested that Homo sapiens arrived to America around 15,000 years ago, and that they were the very…
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The Loch Ness Monster Is Missing
Have you seen the Loch Ness Monster? Neither has anybody else, at least for the past eight months. Monster fanatics who dedicate themselves to studying…
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Science Finally Figured Out Why Your Phone Battery Gets Worse With Age
Anyone with a laptop computer or smartphone knows all about how batteries lose their capacity over time. The day you bought it, your phone could…
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Ancient People Left A Frightening Message For Us, And Scientists Just Found It
10,000 years from now (assuming humans haven't been wiped out by a plague, space rock, or our own destructive tendencies), it'll probably be fairly easy…
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Hobbits Were Real, And They Lived In Indonesia
Humans have always been endlessly fascinated with our evolutionary history, and discovering a new species of human that once roamed the Earth is certainly cause…
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Man Who Made His Living Killing African Wildlife Gets Eaten By African Wildlife
Scott Van Zyl made his living taking wealthy clients on "safaris" for the sole purpose of bringing home trophies like leopards, zebras, wildebeests and even…
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17th-Century Smart Lock Was Really Smart
Think cool technology is only a recent thing? A 340-year old smart lock may change your mind. As The Verge reports, the device in the collection…
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Scientists Are Worried That Humanity Just Keeps Sending Junk Into Space
Space is big and the hardware that humans keep sending into the great beyond is comparatively small, but our habit of letting random bits of space…
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Scientists Rank All The Ways An Asteroid Can Kill You
Tonight, a particularly large asteroid is going to cruise by Earth at its closest point in 400 years, and while we humans are going to…
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Watch A Massive Asteroid Cruise By Earth Live Tonight
Tonight is a big night for skywatchers thanks to the relatively close approach of a large asteroid called 2014 JO25. The rock is slated to…
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NASA Astronaut's Space Treasure Map Sparks Hunt For Caribbean Wrecks
Astronaut Gordon Cooper was a born explorer. He broke countless NASA space flight records, like the longest single-man space flight, a 122-hour mission. But one…
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