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It probably didn't go boom, but it's still an impressive find.
Belemnites were extinct cephalopods with a squid-like body.
The simple pleasures in life.
Who knew that governments can make people happier?
Old fashioned socializing, powered by science.
Rock on, brothers.
Kinda looks like an end-boss in an RPG.
Be a man, make your fan.
The end result is a perfect example of what can happen when art meets science.
Handy.
Wear it on your fingers, not in your lungs.
Could we function in a world void of visual content? How did we get to this point, anyway?
A"smell organ" shoots scents instead of musical notes to dazzle an audience.
Gastronomy is becoming more of a science and less of an art with each passing day, but there are some foods which are just downright unreasonably expensive.
We've talked about 3D printing being useful in fields like engineering or medicine, but in the right hands it can create amazing pieces of art and bring back to life creatures gone for hundreds of millions of years.
Most of the world's greenhouse gas comes from cities - and that's where we have to act.
It took a year and 30 students to make the fastest accelerating vehicle in the world: the grimsel.
Not only does it look gorgeous, but it also has many remarkable properties that could transform the way artists work.
In America, walkable neighborhoods are a privilege of the rich and educated.
A new study from Yale University mapped urban centers from 3700 B.C. to 2000 A.D. It's an amazing ride!
A Japanese designer and an Italian shoemaker teamed up to create the shoes of the future.
There's only one fossil of this dinosaur that we ever found -- and you're looking at it.
Not much bigger than an apartment building, 2016 HO3 has been confirmed as Earth's newest satellite.
Take a moment to consider that the first space flights, both for the Soviets and for NASA, took place way before computers.
For all its beauty, amethyst is a fairly common variety of quartz. This here isn’t even a particularly special image, it’s how amethyst looks like most of the time. What is it about this mineral that makes it so special? Quartz itself is the second-most-abundant mineral in Earth’s crust. Amethyst is one of the more common […]
It's surreal and it doesn't make much sense, but it's definitely intriguing.
The company has chosen to award the shoes via a raffle system on Instagram
A little ship braving the ocean on its own.
This disposable battery runs on bacteria and folds like an origami ninja star. Sold!
You'll recognize the work instantly if you've seen movies like Avatar, Super 8 or Superman Man of Steel.
There were some pretty epic works of art made throughout the Middle Ages and especially the Renaissance. But these elephants are not among them.
Stormy weather has an unusual upside if you happen to live on Australia's eastern coasts: giant waves of sea foam.
Warning: Don't try this at home!
Authorities evacuated people and closed off the area to traffic, while they find a way to stabilize the collapsed area.
China is drastically accelerating its efforts to build a deep-sea research platform - but they aren't doing it for the science.
Chinese company EHang's model 184 will be the first human transport drone to ever be tested in the U.S. Keep your fingers crossed, this may solve your commute problems forever.
Computer models like Traffic-Simulation are designed to figure out how each traffic component adds towards a jam. The simulation models various conditions such as number of trucks or cars on the road, average distance and speed of cars, lane geometry and so forth, to explain how they develop.
This is the Apollo Guidance Computer's read-only rope memory. That's right -- memory literally made from hand-woven rope. Depending on how the rope was knit, a software program could be initiated.
The rich really do get richer - a new study found that the richest families in Florence, Italy, have had it good for a while. For 600 years, to be precise.
Borders often highlight the relationship and differences between different countries, and here are some of the most spectacular and revealing ones.
Few things in life can claim to be truly breathtaking, and even fewer of those things are man-made. But this perfect rocket landing from SpaceX can definitely claim that:
At Recode's Code Conference serial entrepreneur Elon Musk gave his own two cents on why our existence could be in fact a simulation on some advanced civilization's supercomputers.
#cabshots are taking over the internet
Some things on the internet are just mind-bending, and this is definitely one of them.
Materiable is a novel shape changing interface designed to not only offer shapes that let you physically manipulate data, but also recreate the material properties of any substance.
Fulfilling the job that scientists and unlucky undergrads have been doing for years, the kinetic machine Jller selects and sorts pebbles found on a 6 1/2 x 13 foot platform into a grid organized by geologic age. Without any assistance, the machine analyzes rocks based on their shape and sizes, understand their correct placement and transports them […]
This extraordinary bus concept has been all over the internet, promising to revolutionize public transportation, making it more efficient and greener in the process. But could it actually work?
In a move that has been hailed worldwide, Nepal finally eliminated animal slaughter from its biggest festival.
Almost all doctors we've spoken to advise against "internet diagnoses", and this infographic is telling in this respect.
National Geographic’s Travel Photographer of the Year is nearing its conclusion, where the winners will be crowned. It’s not easy to decide from so many amazing photos, as you can see for yourself below. Which one is your favorite? Gentle Giants Mystical forest Eligible contestants can visit natgeo.com/travelphotocontest to submit photographs in any or all of […]
