Hollywood’s superhero obsession has recently spawned some quirkier comic-book adaptations, such as Ant-Man – but these are not the weirdest in the genre.

Astronomers have uncovered a unique process for how the universe's largest elliptical galaxies continue making stars long after their peak years of star birth. Hubble Space Telescope's exquisite high resolution and ultraviolet-light sensitivity allowed the astronomers to see brilliant knots of hot, blue stars forming along the jets of active black holes found in the centers of giant elliptical galaxies.

Google Street View has a century-old predecessor.

The futuristic-looking 3D printed violin has been designed as part of a larger series called “MULTI,” a sonic installation that includes a variety of other instruments and, a bandshell/rack that holds the instruments when not in use.

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A beginner's guide to home alterations you can make to your clothes. We show you how to change the buttons on your clothing, hem your trousers, take in your shirts and even create your own pocket squares. Start tailoring your clothes today in order to both save yourself money and ensure that your clothes always fit perfectly.

Ultralight Backpacking Pot Cozy DIY Instructions

If you're a tea lover like me, you're gonna like this. You can choose from something crazy like 80 ingredients and create your own tea blends.

What happens when you leave a robot with packs of unsupervised kids? Researchers from the ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Osaka University, Ryukoku University and Tokai University in Japan have decided to find out -- and the answer isn't pretty. They unleashed a Robovie 2 at a shopping complex in Osaka as an experiment and caught groups of Satan's hellspawns mischievous little angels kicking, hitting and even verbally abusing the robot.

We quietly approached the mother and baby humpback whale keeping to the surface, yet making our presence aware to the mother. This is a baby humpback whale calf that was approximately 1 week old. As with most babies, this creature was curious. I could not help but wave and smile at the newborn whale almost three times my length. Its curiosity got the better of it, and emerging from under it's mother's fin it swam towards me, approaching less than 30 centimeters from my face.

Colorful murals from around the world. This mural in a restaurant in Finland, designed by Amerikka Design Office.

by Florent Charpin

The sheer size of our universe is just about unfathomable, so you can imagine the surprise that researchers must have experienced when they recently discovered a structure within our universe that measured 5 billion light years across. That's more than one-ninth the size of the entire observable universe, and by far the largest structure ever discovered.

Ben Millam, a man who describes himself as an "aspiring geek" built an amazing feline feeding machine that requires his cat Monkey to hunt for RFID-tagged white plastic balls.

"He was Gollum -- as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes." In this rare archival recording from that serendipitous summer evening, sixty-year-old Tolkien reads from The Hobbit, doing a magnificent impression of Gollum in the ancient accent he so loved — please enjoy...

For starters, old females are tougher than young males, according to a new study on these little-known mammals. By Rachel A. Becker.

It's the 101st anniversary of the first electric traffic signal system.

The drug is approved for treatment of certain types of seizures caused by epilepsy.

Do Americans who are upset about Cecil even realize how terrifying animals can be?

Of all the things that the now-hated Flash plugin brought to our internet experience over the years, it's not a stretch to say that the Homestar Runner internet toon is among the best.

We mentioned this on our Instagram yesterday, but this photography work by Ukraine artist Oleg Oprisco made us double-take because of its painterly and fantasy-world quality. These particular portraits with the flowers have such rich color quality that you almost can't believe its a photo. 

Virtual reality experience takes visitors back in time using real objects and state of the art 3D gadgets. The museum is launching its first virtual reality weekend, inviting visitors to engage with the past not just through the real objects in the galleries but through state of the art 3D headsets, tablets, and a projection of the recreated house into a dome structure large enough for groups of five to enter.

An above-average number of tornadoes may be ripping through - and ripping up - Canada this summer, scientists say.

Bored of New Apps? This is my tutorial on how to turn your phone into a Hologram Projector!

A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm.

Meet Stevie, a blind cat who recently hiked through Ireland’s Comeragh Mountains, proving that her disability doesn’t slow her down.

30 species, 30 pieces. In Pieces is a CSS-based interactive exhibition of 30 of the world’s most interesting but unfortunately endangered species – their survivals laying literally, in pieces. This site was the Site of the Month for March at Awwwards. Please view in Chrome or on mobile devices!

A Japanese distillery is sending some of its world-renowned whisky into outer space. Tokyo-based Suntory, a brewing and distillery company, announced today that it will send six samples of its whiskies and other alcohols to the International Space Station (ISS) next month, in order to observe the effects of zero-gravity on the aging process.

Vintage technology is fun and fascinating. It feels new all over again to see how old devices made modern concepts possible. But buying LPs again is different than finding out that missile silos in the United States still rely on floppy disks. And this video of the old tech still...