Toronto resident Simon Treadwell wheeled a garbage bin onto a snow-bound lot next to his property one evening this past winter. Inside the bin was a smelly mixture of wet and dry cat food, sardines, and fried chicken. Treadwell sprinkled some of the mix on and around the bin, made sure his three motion-activated night vision cameras were on, and went back into his house.

A cure for diabetes could be imminent after scientists discovered how to make huge quantities of insulin-producing cells, in a breakthrough hailed as significant as antibiotics. Harvard University has, for the first time, managed to manufacture the millions of beta cells required for transplantation.

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How a man met a woman and they set off on an epic journey across six continents in one amazing unbreakable car

Futurists and science fiction authors often give us overly grim visions of the future, especially when it comes to the Singularity and the risks of artificial superintelligence. Scifi novelist David Brin talked to us about why these dire predictions are often simplistic and unreasonable.

Myst was the first “real” computer game I ever played and at the time, I was absolutely blown away by the graphics and just how surreal the entire experience felt. I’m apparently not the only person that felt that way…

Many bridges are the archetype of urban blight, essential yet uninspired. But informed Quora.com users know better. They identified fantastic structures that double as art.

"A few years ago when I was working as a helicopter pilot for a local radio station, we were required to fly around all of Mexico City chasing news and traffic. I remember flying up to the highway that connects Mexico City with the neighboring state of Puebla, and on my way back this housing complex that seemed to go on forever caught my attention. I decided to circle around to observe from up close what I later found out was the recently built San Buenaventura complex..."

A recent study found that out of all the voice-activated systems they tested Siri is the worst one. We would not put up with Siri’s behavior in any other situation. Imagine what it would be like if Siri was a waitress.

The prolific actor says that there's a part for him in the follow-up to Roland Emmerich's 1996 summer blockbuster

An American and two Japanese scientists won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for inventing a new energy-efficient and environment-friendly light source

Amazingly no one attending the event in Aosta Valley was hurt after a vehicle driven by Piero Scavone and navigator Diego D'Hérin drove off the track and headed straight toward a group of onlookers. The two men in the car were not seriously injured. A female spectator was treated for shock.

I've seen great graffiti and awesome tattoos but never anything like this.

Did you know police can just take your stuff if they suspect it's involved in a crime? They can! It’s a shady process called “civil asset forfeiture,” and it would make for a weird episode of Law and Order. See?

Why blow billions of dollars on space exploration when billions of people are living in poverty here on Earth? You’ve likely heard the justifications. The space program brings us useful innovations and inventions. Space exploration delivers perspective, inspiration, and understanding. Because it’s the final frontier. Because it’s there.

After long remaining mostly mum on Bitcoin, Microsoft’s legendary co-founder Bill Gates has spoken. At the Sibos 2014 financial-services industry conference in Boston, America's richest man just threw his weight behind the controversial cryptocash. Well, at least as a low-cost payments solution.

A new MIT study offers a way out of one of solar power's most vexing problems: the matter of efficiency, and the bare fact that much of the available sunlight in solar power schemes is wasted. The researchers appear to have found the key to perfect solar energy conversion efficiency—or at least something approaching it. It's a new material that can accept light from an very large number of angles and can withstand the very high temperatures needed for a maximally efficient scheme.

Scientists have discovered a new way to make molecular oxygen (O2) from carbon dioxide (CO2) - no green plants involved.

The wreckage of the Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (Sturzkampfflugzeug) 'dive bomber' was discovered not far from the southern coast of the island of Zirje.

See the relationships between the trigonometric functions on the unit circle and the Cartesian plane.

A wireless Canon Pixma printer has been hacked to run classic video game Doom. The hack was carried out by security researcher Michael Jordon, and it took four months to get the game running on the hardware. He said he had undertaken the project to demonstrate the security problems surrounding devices that would form the "internet of things". Canon said it planned to fix the loopholes on future printers to make them harder to subvert.

Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada's six-acre sand and soil "facescape" stretches across the JFK Hockey Field on the north side of the Reflecting Pool along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on October 1, 2014. Titled "Out of Many, One" and composed of 2,500 tons of sand, 800 tons of topsoil and eight miles of string, the piece is the artist's interpretive blending of 30 different men's faces. Rodriguez-Gereda used high-precision global positioning satellites to place 10,000 wood

The sunshine vitamin helps boost bone and muscle growth, but a lack of it can really hurt your health.

The Paris Motor Show is taking place this month and we've already seen Volkswagen and Lamborghini introduce eye-catching new vehicles in preparation for it. A week from now, Elon Musk's Tesla is going to join in the new-car fun by unveiling "the D and something else." That's presumably in reference to a new Model D that would join the current Model S and X options on offer from Tesla.

Often called a “Digital Age Leonardo da Vinci”, Alexander Tsiaras is a digital innovator, technologist and artist. You might know him from his work that showcases beautiful digital images of the human body, made using cutting edge imaging software along with artsy tweaks.

Evidence is emerging that some widely used drugs can prolong lifespan for well people – and insiders have started taking them off-label

Here's the new NOAA image that's blowing everyone's mind.

This crab knows how to rock his teapot shell.

In 2007, at a bioethics forum at the University of Tasmania, I made what I thought was a fairly common sense statement: if the Port Arthur mass murderer, Martin Bryant, wants euthanasia, the state should not stand in his way.