Remains of 28 Civil War soldiers identified in funeral home storage
The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country. As first ...
Using one of these Kodak Instant Print cameras to document the good, bad, and ugly of Thanksgiving
The camera's small enough to fit in my pocket. Normally, this camera would be $106, but right now it's $59.99.
Science says superstitions can have a very real impact on your life
What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you ...
MIT maps how the brain experiences movies
Our brains have to do a lot of work when we watch a movie. There are plots to follow, dialogue to interpret, visuals to take in, and more. Now, scientists have created a detailed map of how the human ...
‘Swiss army knife of the brain:’ How star-shaped cells reshape our understanding of memory
How does the brain store—and access—our memories? While our understanding of the brain has (thankfully) developed greatly from the days of removing cerebral tissue to see what would happen, a precise ...
6,000-year-old Mesopotamian artifacts linked to the dawn of writing
Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...
World’s first wooden satellite shares material with samurai sword sheaths
On Tuesday, the company’s 31st resupply mission for NASA delivered the world’s first satellite built using wooden parts. More ...
Dinosaurs discovered in ‘Chinese Pompeii’ actually died in extremely boring ways
A famous fossil formation in the Yixian region of Northeast China has revealed some of the most striking, well-preserved ...
Bioprinting breakthrough uses acoustic waves to create lab-grown human tissue
Researchers often test experimental pharmaceutical therapies using lab-grown human tissues. Unfortunately, creating these ...
6 of the weirdest things to ever wash up on the beach
Earth’s surface is about 70 percent water. Our blue planet is more ocean than anything else. And here’s another fact: About ...
5 things to know about pygmy hippos–like Scotland’s own Haggis
Meet Haggis! The tiny pygmy hippo ( Choeropsis liberiensis) calf was born at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS ...
Meat-eating terror birds could grow up to 12 feet tall
The mostly flightless, meat-eating dinosaur descendents were the size of dogs at their smallest, but the largest known ...