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Knowing for the sake of knowing: algorithm developed to hardwire curiosity into robots

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but cats don't run on microprocessors. I think.

Fractal: the stunning beauty of Earth's megastorms seen through Chad Cowan's eyes

Amazing.

Americans aren't only wasting the most food -- they're also throwing out the best bits

The worst of both worlds.

Carnegie U software lets anyone design and build a bot -- that works

Click, print, ready!

Researchers took a nanoscale snap of a living cell membrane for the first time in history

They had to develop a whole new method to do it.

Power to the subpixel: new tech could triple the resolution of LCD screens

Hope my internet connection can keep up. Fingers crossed.

Urban heat island effect could almost triple the cost of climate change in cities, burn economies to a crisp

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fireeee.

Learning to read changes your brain from stem to cortex, study finds

The more you do it, the better it gets.

For the first time ever, we've seen a black hole being silently born -- no supernova required

Why blow up when you can mass up?

There could be an extra, ancient layer of tectonic plates lurking under east Asia

Tectonics^2.

Earlier this month, California broke yet another green record using over 67% renewable power

Woob woob!

Ancient climate change turned whales into Earth's largest organisms ever , study reports

Do you think they get self-conscious about their weight?

Ellen Ochoa and Michael Foale join the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame

The best of the best.

Meet Tolley, the single most adorable robot you'll ever see ever -- who's also a breakthrough

Cute + science = yesplease.

The first hominids might have evolved in Europe, fossil jaw suggests

Emphasis on might.

These tiny birds' hopping could teach robots how to navigate rough environments

Hoppity hop.

Watch the Grand Canyon overflowing with clouds in the wake of atmospheric inversion

Beautiful.

Warm-bloodedness shown to be millions of years older than we thought -- maybe as old as the dinosaurs

The case for dinosaur warm bloodedness keeps getting stronger.

Even 'dumb AI' can supercharge human activity and efficiency, study reprots

Two heads are better than one.

Researchers identify main factors of home indoor air pollution: marijuana surprisingly plays a big role

Hint: it's smoking in.

We've (unknowingly) created a radiation shield around the Earth using radios

Can your Internet landline do this? No.

Neuron cluster which can override sleep identified in the fruit fly brain

95% of students like this bundle of neurons.

Scientists find the step-by-step process by which your shoelaces come undone

Trying to walk it off only makes it worse.

Early farmers probably didn't really know how to select crops -- but they were very lucky

Domestication could've well happened on its own.

Paper-thin device turns touch into electricity, flags into loudspeakers, bracelets into microphones

Woah.

Female mice birth and nurse healthy offspring after being grafted with prosthetic ovaries

That's a pretty impressive print.

Why 7.5 billion people on Earth is bad news

We are legion!

Novel 3D printing method makes furniture in vats of gel within minutes

I like everything about this!

Your robot always dropping stuff? Try these gecko-inspired pads

A gripping tale.

Mussel-glue-and-protein balm could spell the end of scars forever

Sadly, not very effective against emotional scars.

Alcohol doesn't change our personality as much as we blame it

This doesn't mean you can't keep blaming it.

Spray-on touchscreen can turn almost anything into a sensor with a flick of the wrist

Cool.

Feeling down? Walk it off! No really, walking is all you have to do

Who said you can't run from your problems?

China plans to have an asteroid mining base up and running "in the near future"

Epic loot.

Watch the (2nd) biggest book in the world get digitized, all thanks to the British Library

It's not the size of the book that matters, it's how you digitize it.

Stunning image of the Crab Nebula put together from five telescopes' worth of data

Breathtaking.

3D-printed bionic skin can give bots a sense of touch, protect soldiers from explosions

Show me some skin!

Robot see, robot do: MIT software allows you to instruct a robot without having to code

No code? No problem!

Long-term exposure to mictrogravity can lower physical fitness down by half

And exercise doesn't fix it.

Want better, cheaper health care? Pay doctors a flat salary, not per procedure, behavioral economists say

Doctors? Having conflicts of interests? Can't be.

CERN celebrates completion of Liniac 4, its most powerful linear accelerator

In about three years from now, the LHC will receive its most powerful linear accelerator yet.

Tanzania's blood-red lake snapped from space by NASA

Pretty. And pretty deadly.

Biology imparts us with instinctive color categories -- culture only shapes them

Color is hardwired into the brain.

Our perception of a character comes not from their actions, but from how they compare to others

There's a thin line between hero and villain -- one we redraw quite liberally.

Silica rains helped form Earth's crust four and a half billion years ago

Talk about hailstone, right?

Stephen Hawking revises his deadline for humans escaping Earth -- it's now just 100 years

Darn.

Cell maps reveal how the body fights off cancer

Bunch up!

It's not just the poor: all Americans eat fast food about as often

Bite into this study.

Want to work on NASA's software and get paid for it? You'll love this challenge

Enter the High Performance Fast Computing Challenge.

Speech and language deficits aren't to blame for autistic children's tantrums

Knowing what it's not brings us one step closer to understanding what it is.
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