“This is not a chicken, it is absolutely a piece of art.” This is the announcement with which Koen Vanmechelen, conceptual artist and chicken breeder, begins a TEDx talk. He repeats it to me word for word in the chambers of the Crypt Gallery, deep be ...

The player had never punched his girlfriend, failed his twice-a-year piss tests, or taken a tree limb to a preschool child – and by the Grand Guignol mores of the National Football League, that made him a prince and a scholar. Granted, he hadn't ...

Tony Buffington is a cat expert who wants to help you harmonize your relationship with your favorite feline.

The original Robocop, released in 1987 and directed by Paul Verhoeven, was not only one of the best science fiction films of the last three decades—"a brilliant comedy operating in the guise of an ultraviolent action movie," as Tom Scocca d ...

New research has found an on-off switch in the brain for hunger. Could it stop us overeating?

Increasing concerns about limited fossil fuels and global environmental problems have focused attention on the need to develop sustainable biofuels from renewable resources. Although microbial production of diesel has been reported, production of ano ...

If you don't have the time to catch up on all 61 episodes before the final episode of Breaking Bad that airs this Sunday, I suggest you watch this!

Researchers from Chinese University of Hong Kong develop micro-robots no larger than a human cell to carry larger volumes of drugs more accurately into targeted parts of the body, providing alternative to invasive treatment.

Two international teams of astronomers have used two telescopes in Chile to produce the best 3D map yet of the central bulge of our Milky Way Galaxy.

Didn't we already know this? Yes, we did.

By default, Android devices phone home, copying Wi-Fi passwords to Google servers. While they may be encrypted, it seems fairly obvious that Google can read these Wi-Fi passwords. And if Google can read them, the U.S. government can compel them to tu ...

The Kernel's James Cook was escorted around DSEI, a massive international weapons conference held bi-annually in London. Here's what he found.

A new Italian study finds that attractive people get significantly more callbacks for job interviews regardless of their qualifications.

No matter what you do its going to be helpful to learn to code. So we should probably start teaching it in school.

Nintendo, whose latest console has sold poorly, could be on a "path to irrelevance", the founder of legendary games company Atari has said.

Shes just a girl and shes on fire..

Craig Newmark is the Craig of Craigslist whose estimated net worth as of 2010 was around $400 million. This is in direct contrast to his financial wealth during childhood, where his mother struggled to support Craig and his brother, Jeff, after the d ...

Tales of debilitating acid flash-backs and permanently frazzled synapses are exaggerated, according to a new scientific report which concludes LSD use may even

People are much worse at solving puzzles when they're first reminded of money problems, scientists say. Fretting about about finances can slow down your thinking as much as losing a night's sleep, researchers say.

You’re almost unfathomably lucky to exist, in almost every conceivable way. Don’t take it the wrong way. You, me, and even the most calming manatee are nothing but impurities in an otherwise beautifully simple universe. We're lucky life began on ...