Why zebras were never domesticated
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How to think like a genius with Richard Feynman
It's a combination of thinking like a child and always keeping a catalog of problems that require your attention.
Social media makes users dissociate from the world around them, but there are a few tools that can help
Social media is great at mindlessly wasting our time.
What are the average colors of the world? Data science offers a creative answer
Earth's color palette in a series of creative maps.
Welcome to the mesmerizing (and soothing) world of timelapse sheep herding
What if I told you the coolest thing you'll see today is sheep herding? Well, brace yourself. Almost like a ...
The Pythagorean cup – the vessel that spills your booze if you’re too greedy
One of the finest bits of mathematical trolling by the great Pythagoras himself.
The relationship between social media and cryptocurrencies is not healthy
A single tweet from Elon Musk can move the crypto market by billions.
The mystery of an abandoned village in England that can still be seen from the sky
There are around 2,000 deserted villages in England, but Gainsthorpe is perhaps the most mysterious of them.
Freed of 1,000 years of grime, this Anglo-Saxon cross looks stunning
Restoration work revealed the stunning level of detail in this Viking-era cross.
Swallowed whole: lobster diver swallowed and spat out by humpback whale
"Oh my God, I'm in a whale's mouth", the diver wrote on Facebook.
What is gympie-gympie: the poisonous plant whose painful sting can last for years and drive people to suicide
Its leaves pack one of the most painful stings in the world. There is no antidote.
How a deaf Beethoven discovered bone conduction by attaching a rod to his piano and clenching it in his teeth
Beethoven wrote dozens of symphonies and songs while deaf. But he had some help from a nifty trick.
No green thumb required: Open-source robots can now grow a small farm for you
The only thing cooler than a smart, useful robot is a smart, useful, open-source robot.
Ukraine seizes spirit made from apples grown near the Chernobyl nuclear site
The company hopes to get it soon on the UK market.
How Tibbles the cat possibly caused an entire species to go extinct
A cautionary tale we've failed to heed more than a century later.
Spanish companies team up to create the first paella-cooking robot
Maybe, uhm, robots aren't so bad after all.
The world’s donkeys are threatened by demand for Chinese traditional medicine
Donkeys are undergoing their worst crisis ever.
Chernobyl in photos — what does the exclusion area look like 35 years after the disaster?
Some of our favorite photos from the ghost town Pripyat and the nuclear plant exclusion zone.
Google Earth’s new feature: a timelapse of the entire planet
It's one of the most stunning features we've seen online.
Japanese metallic tail can help keep the elderly upright
It's a weird evolutionary thing that we'd build robotic tails.