2 guys call a taxi and one of them poses as a body while the other asks the taxi driver to help him put the body in the trunk. The taxi driver did not do what they were expecting.

After shuttering its NYC office, effectively closing down New York game studio OMGPOP forever, gaming behemoth Zynga announced today that it will be permanently shuttering OMGpop.com and four of the companies games by September 30th.

Congestion kills. That's not hyperbole, it's a fact. In dozens of cities across the world, heavy traffic, construction, and poorly maintained roads keep first responders from getting to patients in time. That's where the Ambucycle come ...

Our internal clocks are drifting out of sync, and indoor lighting may be to blame. A new study suggests that just a few days in the great outdoors puts us back in tune with the solar cycle, and reconnecting with the sun could make us less drowsy.

A respected US-based internet security expert says he has foiled an attempt to frame him as a heroin dealer.

On a sunny summer's day in Provo’s North Park, hundreds of children are out with their parents, lining up for pretzels, lining up for face painting, and lining up to pet sheep. On a stage set up in...

The largest outdoor arts festival in North America is about to become bigger.

Nouveau riche Russians are rushing to buy the cubic curios from Japan.

It’s a truism that Facebook is the many-headed frenemy, the great underminer. We know this because science tells us so. The Human–Computer Institute at Carnegie Mellon has found that your “passive consumption” of your friends’ feeds and your own “bro ...

Viktor Hertz, a graphic designer from Stockholm, Sweden, decided that it would a good idea to come up with what he calls, “Honest logos.” They’d actually depict or somewhat resemble what the companies offer to the public at this point in time.

Ants can carry up to 100x their own weight.

Must be fun going over the daily dose of dash cam footage and spotting gold like this.

A man wanted to let others on the road know to slow down because they were about to drive into a speed trap, so he flashed his headlights as a warning. So is that action protected by the First Amendment?

To battle Amazon, brick-and-mortar retailers are leveraging the power of data. Big retailers as old as Nordstrom and as young as Warby Parker have turned to in-store tracking to figure out just about everything about their customers — including their ...

A law went into effect this month that ends the ban on U.S. government-made propaganda from being broadcast to Americans. In a remarkably creative spin, the supporters of this law say that allowing Americans to see American propaganda is actually a v ...

Researchers, in a step toward analyzing Mars for signs of life, find that gene-sequencing chip can survive space radiation. If there is life on Mars, it’s not too farfetched to believe that such Martian species may share genetic roots with life on Ea ...

We like to think that law enforcement weighs up a pretty high standard of evidence before they straight up throw a dude in prison. After all, we have all this fancy new technology to discern the guilty from the innocent! It's not like any of us ...

I'll just take 3 small orders of wings please.

Colorado-based company, ET3, is buildling its own hyperloop transport system called "Evacuated Tube Transport" to be tested by the end of the year.

When Twinkies hit the stores again on July 15, their shelf life will be nearly twice as long as it used to be: 45 days. (We were surprised it wasn't longer.) There's a whole lot of food science employed to help the creme-filled cake defy th ...