Virginia Wants to Offer Tax Deduction for Burial in Space
The economy still stinks but Delegate Terry Kilgore is sponsoring a bill to help the citizens of Virginia by offering up to $8,000 in tax…
The economy still stinks but Delegate Terry Kilgore is sponsoring a bill to help the citizens of Virginia by offering up to $8,000 in tax…
Global warming, or just an unusually warm summer? You be the judge as Greenland lost 100 billion tons of ice in 2010. Southern Greenland has…
The elusive Higgs Boson, frequently referred to (sometimes tongue-in-cheek) as the “God Particle” might not have been found yet, but it has fewer places to…
The rest of the world can deal with droughts and bad crops but China has plans to step up its rain-making endeavors and increase precipitation…
They are tiny and cute and can be seen in countless aquariums. Surely the Guppy is at the bottom of the predator list. Maybe not….
According to Smithsonian researchers, the brains of tiny spiders are so large that they fill their body cavities and even overflow into their legs. They…
This fluffy robot is cuddly and soft, but it is no toy. Babyloid is Japan’s latest therapeutic robot baby, designed to help ease depression among…
It might be a small world after all, but there’s still plenty to learn about this little blue marble we call Earth, and there’s no…
116 years ago, H.G. Wells introduced us to “The Time Machine” and it seems like time travel has been a subject of debate since then….
The above photo is one of the many Snowflake photos taken by Kenneth Libbrecht of CalTech with a special snowflake photomicroscope showing snow crystals from…
It was previously thought that Ötzi the iceman’s last hours consisted of him being caught and killed after a grueling chase, but new evidence suggests…
As you can see in the above image, a wind turbine in Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, Scotland exploded on December 8th, when the area was battered…
Calling someone a dirty rat might not have the same impact it used to have because new research reveals that rats are more likely to…
Yes, that really is a rare twin rainbow in the image above where two colorful arcs spring from the same starting point. You’ve probably seen…
A leopard, once thought to be long gone from the Afghan mountains, was spotted thanks to some camera traps in Afghanistan’s central highlands. It would…
Kirtland’s warblers (named after Jared P. Kirtland) are an endangered species of birds that, like so many humans, spend summer in North America and winter…
After over three decades in space, Voyager 1 is about to leave the Solar System and head into the uncharted territory of the Milky Way….
It looks like human males aren’t the only ones giving women cheap gifts to get sex. Male nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) wrap their gifts…