You thought SpaceX's Grasshopper was impressive? Grasshopper was just the beginning. Behold, the first flight test…
You thought SpaceX's Grasshopper was impressive? Grasshopper was just the beginning. Behold, the first flight test…
Late last night, a suspected meteor tore through the skies over the northern Russian city of Murmansk.
Charles Dodgson, the author and mathematician better known as Lewis Carroll, wrote about a young girl lost in…
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Scientists have found organic soil 10,000 feet beneath the ice sheet that stretches across 80 percent of Greenland.…
Sometimes it's a good idea to remember the wisdom of the ancients, especially when they are criticizing the wisdom…
A recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center shows that the majority of Americans are optimistic about the…
Scientists today announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, a faraway planet that's perhaps the most Earth-like yet…
Last month we told you about 20 terms every self-respecting futurist should know, but now it's time to turn our…
Earlier this week, NBC News posted a map, "The Changing Face of America," to illustrate the shifting demographics in…
City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella is one of the earliest utopian novels — and one of the rarest, since only 20…
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The contrasting colors of dusking day combine with optics to great effect in Broken Mirror/Evening Sky, a…
The one thing Maleficent has going on for herself is style. The cape, the face, the accessories and a mean…
A new study suggests it's all downhill after our mid-twenties. By comparing the performance of 3,305 StarCraft 2 players aged 16 to 44, researchers say we reach the peak of our cognitive motor performance at the age of 24. On the positive side, they say older plays can still find ways to compensate.
Astronomers believe that Pluto and its moon were the result of two massive objects slamming into each other. The…
Movie-making is a high-stakes, all-in, kind of deal. You have to bet big to win big, most of the time. And when a…
This map takes every quake from the last century and plots them out to give a sense of the incredible scope — and…
The race to build the world’s tallest building has taken on an urgent tone these past few years. Like the…
One of the big questions of futurism is what kind of world we want to live in tomorrow. But as attendees at a…