As frightening as global warming is, it’s empowering to know that each one of us has the power to make a difference. The more of us join in and do our part, the sooner we can save our Earth.

Taking little…

Widely believed to have been extinct, the pygmy tarsier, one of the world’s smallest and rarest primates, has been found on a mountain-top on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Until now, scientists had…

Researchers at UCLA have harnessed the power of Scotch tape to get X-rays. If the tape is rolled off its spool in a vacuum chamber, it apparently emits X-rays. The process works so well that the scientists…

It may be marginally morbid, but I love Skulls Unlimited, the “World’s Leading Supplier of Osteological Specimens.” Sounds boring, but it really rocks.

For a start, they create custom skeletal mounts…

Cyclopes are scary mythical creatures, and to make it worse, there are three of these one-eyed beings recorded in legend, with Polyphemus being the most ‘popular.’ Although commonly seen in nightmares,…

Another female android story…

Aptly named after the first woman on earth, these robots are called EveR-1 and 2 after Eve and R (short for Robot.) The EveR-1 was created to entertain and educate, as pictured…

Imagine the sheets on your bed playing soft music as you lie down for bed, or your jacket humming to you as you walk down the street, or a clear sheet stretched over a window in your office playing music…

How do you want your next power plant to look? All nuclear and green and lush and pretty? Or just plain silly, like a giant lightning rod on top of a pyramid?

No design is too bizarre for these power…

The Lilypad Arduino. Sounds like a mix between a sports car and speed boat, but it’s neither. It’s an interface that allows textiles to be attached to circuits. The result is that you can have a bra that…

Aside from providing terraflops of images for Google to index, and providing sustenance for tomorrow’s leaders, boobs aren’t doing much to benefit mankind. Adrienne So, a writer for Wired, thought the…

This new craze in beauty treatments won’t just sting your pockets, it uses actual bee stings and it hurts like hell. They don’t say it does, but it must do. My eyes are watering.

It is a specialist clinic…

Zen: it’s the best way to describe it. We’ve all had a parent touch our foreheads to see if we have a fever. Designer Duck Young Kong has wed the loving touch of a parent with technology in his uber-elegant…

Researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden have developed a way to make self-assembling fiber optic cables out of DNA--the very stuff all life is based upon. How did they…

Another urban myth was confirmed, and this is a good one: Adolf Hitler only had one testicle. FACT.

This was confirmed by an almost-lost account from a German army medic who treated Hitler during World…

Wind farms are becoming one of the hottest topics in the search for clean energy sources. While the windmill itself is nothing new, they possess one major design flaw: What do you do when there is no wind?…

This video from the Science Channel shows scientists filling a massive ant colony with 10 tons of cement and then digging the dirt away to reveal the incredibly complex system of ventilation and cooling…

A website has started selling Russian urine for export to the U.S. armed with a slogan that reads “Russian Urine Against Doctor’s Scalpel.”

The company has been established for eight tears and all of…

Cryo-Cell International, Inc., an umbilical cord blood stem cell bank, is now promoting a new service called C’elle. It offers women the chance to store the stem cells found in their menstrual fluid. The…

The feces of muskrats, semi-aquatic rodents native to North America, has been found to contain a powerful antibiotic that kills the food-poisoning Salmonella and Vibio bacteria.

Researchers at Pusan…