Unusual ripples in Saturn's rings are revealing the mysterious inner workings of the great gas giant.

For many students, quiet time is key for the learning process.

Americans once made sour drinks like shrubs and switchels and preferred tart strawberries and cherries. Then sugar became cheaper and ubiquitous. Now sour is returning in fermented foods and drinks.

While long novels and epic fantasy tales enthrall and fascinate, sometimes a short, sharpened novel can make for an even more satisfying read for the busy. Today, we have compiled a few of our favorite short novels. Most are 200 pages or less, and can be comfortably finished over the weekend. Very little things are more satisfying than finishing a book, and these novels are bound to make your weekend more fulfilling.

Atomic physicist Niels Bohr is famously quoted as saying, “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.” Yet despite years of getting things wrong, magazines love think pieces on where we’ll be in several decades, even centuries in time.

UCL is the only UK host of a NASA Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF). On top of this, it has a long tradition in astronomy, geology and planetary science.

The most annoying thing when you drive is a flat tire. Imagine while driving your tire goes flat, but you don’t need to repair/change it. A team of scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research in Dresden, one of the largest polymer research facilities in Germany, have developed a new type of rubber that can heal itself after a tear or break.

Ever since Windows 10 launched back in July, one topic of conversation has overshadowed everything the new operating system does right: privacy concerns. Everyone with a Windows device is (rightfully) terrified that Microsoft is monitoring everything they do, so on Monday, Microsoft decided to finally issue an official response in order to clear the air.

This isn’t another story about that dress, or at least, not really. It’s about the way that humans see the world, and how until we have a way to describe something, even something so fundamental as a colour, we may not even notice that it’s there. Until relatively recently in human history, “blue” didn’t exist.

Rather than being a bone-dry place, it turns out that there is water ice on the moon. It's in small amounts -- think worse than a desert -- but it is there. A key question now is whether the ice would be enough to support a lunar colony. Earlier this year, LRO found that hydrogen (an indicator of water) appears to be more abundant on pole-facing slopes in the studied region, which was the southern hemisphere. These maps will be key in indicating locations for future human outposts.

Philosophers have a bad reputation for casting unwarranted doubt on established facts. Little could be more certain than your belief that the cloudless sky, on a summer afternoon, is blue. Yet we may wonder in earnest, is it also blue for the birds who fly up there, who have different eyes from ours?

No paint, just nature

Hey! I've been using world painter lately, and I thought I'd share some stuff in this budding community.

Humans have thought a lot about the foods we will need to survive on other planets. But how will familiar flavors taste off-world? And could there be some place in this universe where delicious treats like fries, champagne, or chocolate would taste even better than they do on Earth?

Just a day after pharmacy workers from a Brooklyn Target store formed a union, the company announced plans to replace employees with robot workers in the near future. Last week it was reported that the pharmacists had submitted their initial “microunion” filing with the National Labor Relations Board after an initial ballot vote was passed 7 -2. The filing was noteworthy as the workers become the first union at any Target store since the retailer opened in 1902.

According to Apple, more than 50% of iPhone and iPad users have already upgraded to iOS 9, which was released to the public just last week. This coming weekend, millions more will take delivery of their new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s handsets, which will also be running Apple’s latest software. Unfortunately, all of these users are vulnerable to a simple hack made possible by a serious security flaw in iOS 9.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years

Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, was the first internationally celebrated woman artist. But only now, 173 years after her death, has France dedicated an exhibition to her.

Most Americans think elections are rigged, and they're right. Vox editor-in-chief Ezra Klein explains how gerrymandering works, and how to fix it.

Bill describes the amazing mechanism inside a retractable Parker ink pen.

If you subscribe to a subscription music service such as Spotify or Apple Music you probably pay $10 a month. And if you are like most people, you probably do so believing your money goes to the artists you listen to. Unfortunately, you are wrong.

Electrons are quick, but they’re not quick enough — in fact they’re holding back the speed of modern computing. Now, a team has developed the world’s first ever light-based memory chip that can store data permanently, and it could help usher in a new era of computing.

The latest Android phone flaw is sheer stupidity. Locked phones require a passcode. But there's a way to get around that. Just type in an insanely long password. That overloads the computer, which redirects you to the phone's home screen. It's a time-consuming hack, but it's actually easy to pull off.

As summer slips into fall, it's time to grab your camera and get outside to capture the magic of the changing seasons.

A pumpkin beer recipe can start with multiple base beer styles. Fresh pumpkin and canned pumpkin with additional spices can be used in your beer recipe.

The DIYBio (or Do-It-Yourself Biology or Biohacking) Revolution is upon us. The Maker Movement — the combination of new digital fabrication tools, low-cost sensors, and an open-source ethos — opened the doors for the creation of scientific tools at fractions of the cost of their commercial counterparts. The next generation of these machines are about to hit the market (well, Kickstarter) and their makers are expecting a much bigger wave of interest and involvement.

They clean our floors, build our cars and serve our drinks. But you won’t find robots here

Before releasing these captive-bred helmeted honeyeaters to fend for themselves, the team is teaching them important survival skills.

ANA and Boeing have rolled out the R2-D2 jet, the first of three planes to be decorated with "Star Wars" livery

Witold Rybczynski’s new book skewers the avant garde, but overlooks prisons and urban shrinkage.