Astronomers announced today that they have found eight new planets in the "Goldilocks" zone of their stars, orbiting at a distance where liquid water can exist on the planet's surface. This doubles the number of small planets (less than twice the diameter of Earth) believed to be in the habitable zone of their parent stars. Among these eight, the team identified two that are the most similar to Earth of any known exoplanets to date.

The first new antibiotic to be discovered in nearly 30 years has been hailed as a ‘paradigm shift’ in the fight against the growing resistance to drugs. Teixobactin has been found to treat many common bacterial infections such as tuberculosis, septicaemia and C. diff, and could be available within five years. But more importantly it could pave the way for a new generation of antibiotics because of the way it was discovered.

The "Augmented Hand Series" (by Golan Levin, Chris Sugrue, and Kyle McDonald, 2014) is a real-time, interactive software system that presents playful, dreamlike, and uncanny transformations of its visitors' hands.

The people over at Buzzfeed set up a fun video experiment where they have a few different people trying to live in a 112 sq. ft. tiny house on wheels.

It is a cold day in early December in Midtown Manhattan, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has barely taken his seat on stage when his interviewer throws out that brusque query. It’s the question on the lips of every one of the 400 attendees of this tech conference, but it’s still a jarring moment. Bezos tries to hem and haw his way out of the issue, but his interrogator, Business Insider editor-in-chief Henry Blodget, won’t let up, asking again, "So, Jeff, what happened with the Fire Phone?"

Although NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken many breathtaking images of the universe, one snapshot stands out from the rest: the iconic view of the so-called "Pillars of Creation." The jaw-dropping photo, taken in 1995, revealed never-before-seen details of three giant columns of cold gas bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young, massive stars in a small region of the Eagle Nebula, or M16.

After operating in stealth mode for four years, Taiwanese startup Gogoro is showing a beautiful electric scooter — but the real news is in how they're planning to power it.

A plan to build a satirical video game that glorifies North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a WMD-wielding hero has attracted over $17,000 on Kickstarter. The game, satirically titled “Glorious Leader!” will let the user play as Kim himself, fighting against US troops and his ultimate foe, President Barack Obama. The developers have planned multiple stages and missions as well as special features like power-ups and unique weapons.

A San Antonio, Texas couple had build a 'tiny house' to commit themselves to 'green living' but the entire home ended up being stolen. Casey Friday says, "It was depressing, devastating, made me angry and shocked all at the same time." An advocate for so-called green living, Friday and his wife had invested 2 1/2 years and $35,000 into building a tiny home from the ground up.

EVERY decade or so, enthusiasts dream up plans for yet another spaceplane—a craft that can take off from a runway like an aeroplane, fly up into orbit to deliver a payload, and then glide back to Earth for a runway landing. And then be ready to do the same again within a day or two. Nothing has ever come of them. Even so, the dream persists. What is not to like about a workhorse launch vehicle that jettisons none of its parts while climbing up to orbit and returns to Earth intact, ready to...

By Photographer Azul Obscura's own words: "New Year's Day of 2015, it was heavy snow in Kyoto. The next day morning, I went to Daigoji without hesitation. There was incredibly beautiful scenery, I felt like I was in a dream..."

Buckle up and ride a rocket through our interactive view of the Solar System to explore our cosmic neighbourhood

A new facility has opened in Reading, to safeguard the future of chocolate. It is a bigger and better clearing house for all the world's new cocoa varieties, which must be quarantined before they can be grown.

Deep in the archives of Yale University's Babylonian Collection lie three small clay tablets with a particular claim to fame - they are the oldest known cookery books.

An owner-built 144 square feet lofted tiny house on wheels in Lyman, Maine, being lived in while being completed.

This cliff top 320 sq. ft. tiny beach cottage is located in Whitsband Bay, Cornwall, United Kingdom. I can only imagine how wonderful it must be to be living in a humble little house like this in an amazing location like this. It’s a one bedroom home with a living room, bathroom, kitchen and an entry way.

Three groups of experimentalists have independently observed a strange state of matter that forms from three particles of any type and at any scale.

Everyone's gotta eat.

Scientists are growing mock organs made of human cells to better study diseases and to help test drugs. Researchers at Johns Hopkins are working on a gut-on-a-chip.

The Morrisons and Kasls found that the benefits of life in 200 square feet outweigh the difficulties.

2014 hasn’t even ended yet and we already have one of the best comets of 2015 showing off in our skies: C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy), already visible to the naked eye and predicted to get brighter over the next couple of weeks! This is the fifth comet discovered by Australian

In 2014, our first entire year of operations, we welcomed over 5,000 new members and countless more casual readers and lurkers. Our members published over 80,000 snaps, posted 30,000 comments and placed well over 3 million votes. We realize this may seem like peanuts when compared to other established services, but after all, every community has to start somewhere. Our team is dedicated, hungry, and always looking to improve as we ever so diligently aim to raise the bar.

Five appetizer ideas for a great New Year's Eve party, but will also ensure that you are not stuck in the kitchen the whole time making hors d'oeuvres.

"It bears repeating that it is often impossible to know exactly when the last animal of a given species disappears in the wilderness. In some cases, I have included a species if it was declared extinct in 2014; this declaration may occur years after the species goes biologically extinct. I have also included animals that went extinct in a particular region or country, because this is also an important loss."

Researchers have identified a previously unknown virus, thought to be transmitted by ticks or mosquitoes, that led to the death of a farmer in Kansas last summer. The illness was fast-moving and severe, causing lung and kidney failure, and shock. The man, previously healthy, died after about only 10 days in the hospital, according to Dr. Dana Hawkinson, an infectious disease specialist who treated the patient at the...

Year-round warmth is a modern luxury, and one that could be affecting body weight and health, how keeping cool can lead to weight loss.

Walk through the North America SCADpad in Atlanta. SCADpad is a parking lot on the Savannah College of the Art and Design campus in Atlanta that has been repurposed as a micro-housing community. Created by students, for students, three tiny homes were constructed to be no bigger than a parking space.

This video shows a profesional watchmaker taking apart and reassembling a Rolex Submariner. The insanely intricate movement of this watch is composed by more than a hundred little pieces, all of them vital to make it work with absolute precision, and all of them assembled by hand.

'Tis the season for cookies and pies. But pie crust is notoriously temperamental. Even the best bakers can have trouble getting that perfectly flakey consistency. Don't let that stop you from making your pie crusts from scratch! In the video above, UCLA biophysicist Amy Rowat reveals some of the molecular secrets of perfect pie.