By screening over 1,000 different types of molecules, scientists have managed to identify a compound that can literally blow up tumor cells belonging to the most aggressive form of brain cancer...

Future biotechnology could be used to make prisoners feel as if they were serving a 1,000 year sentence, a team of scientists claim

In one minute, 255 babies will be born, 83,000 people will make love, and our hearts will beat more than 500 billion times.

The Rosetta probe has started turning on its instruments.

The firm said it found the bitcoins - worth around $116m - in an old digital wallet from 2011. That brings the total number of bitcoins the firm lost down to 650,000 from 850,000.

Archaeologists have found the oldest complete example in the world of a human with metastatic cancer in a 3,000 year-old skeleton. The findings are reported in the academic journal PLOS ONE. The skeleton of the young adult male was found by a Durham University PhD student in a tomb in modern Sudan in 2013 and dates back to 1200BC.

The Burmese python has a built-in compass that allows it to slither home in a near-straight line even if released dozens of kilometres away, researchers said Wednesday. Capable of growing over five metres (16 feet) long, pythons are among the world's largest snakes. Although native to South and Southeast Asia, the snakes have taken up residence in South Florida's Everglades National Park, possibly after being released as unwanted pets.

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There's an astronaut saying: In space, "there is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse." So how do you deal with the complexity, the sheer pressure, of dealing with dangerous and scary situations? Retired colonel Chris Hadfield paints a vivid portrait of how to be prepared for the worst in space (and life) -- and it starts with walking into a spider's web. Watch for a special space-y performance.

You hear about these sorts of things happening. Just never to you. A person sees a painting at a garage sale, decides to buy it for $5 only to later discover it was painted by someone incredibly famous and worth more than they could have possibly imagined.

Photographer Angelica Dass has matched 2,000 human faces with their corresponding Pantone hue.

Should we worry about natural resources running out? As Rachel Nuwer discovers, that’s the wrong way of looking at a far more complex problem. Of all the world’s materials, which one will “run out” first? The more we consume as a society, the more we hear about how vital ores and minerals are dwindling, so it seems logical to assume that a few may be about to disappear.

The Vega was designed for vertical shipment, nose down. General Motors and Southern Pacific designed "Vert-A-Pac" autorack cars to hold 30 Vegas each, compared with conventional tri-level autoracks which held 18. The Vega was fitted with four removable cast-steel sockets on the underside and had plastic spacers—removed at unloading—to protect engine and transmission mounts. The rail car ramp/doors were opened and closed via forklift.

Goldman Sachs has set an estimated date for when they believe residential solar power becomes competitive with existing electric across the U.S. It's relatively soon. And it's mostly thanks to Elon Musk.

CRAIG VENTER, the scientist who first mapped the human genome in 2007 and created synthetic life in 2010, announced last week the creation of his new company, Human Longevity Inc, with the stated goal of "extending and enhancing the healthy, high-performance lifespan and change the face of ageing”. His co-founder Peter Diamandis said: "Our goal is to make 100-years-old the new 60."

According to University of California, Berkeley, and Chinese researchers, a rapid succession of coronal mass ejections – the most intense eruptions on the sun – sent a pulse of magnetized plasma barreling into space and through Earth’s orbit. Had the eruption come nine days earlier, when the ignition spot on the solar surface was aimed at Earth, it would have hit the planet, disabling satellites and GPS, and disrupting our increasingly electronic lives.

BUCKWHEAT GROATS just released this music video and it's catching some major WTF attention.

Over the last month or so we have been applying bug fixes, visual updates and some new functionality. To learn more about the changes, be sure to not miss this post.

Bitcoin will move beyond mere currency to an open-source, decentralized exchange for everything from futures contracts to car rentals.

A team of internet video creators, Sam Gorski, Niko Pueringer and Jake Watson, have conceived a short clip in which Superman returns a lost GoPro camera to an unsuspecting member of the public.

The resilience of humble moss sheds new light on complex lifeforms’ ability to survive harsh conditions

Greetings... We are from the future. Everything is going to be alright. The future is a beautiful place ... But you will need some training in order to inhabit it.In the future - technology evolves faster than any human mind can think. When the singularity occurred. We became like gods - able to create entire worlds in the blink of an eye...

The Paris-based think tank known as the OECD is just out with its semi-annual survey of how different economies stack up in terms of social well-being. (Well-being is basically the polite way economists talk about happiness.) The organization even has a new data visualization to let you see where your country ranks in certain key measures...

Hank gives it to you straight about "anti-gravity technology" -- basically, it doesn't exist. But if you really want to hover, you have options! aft/26908/

Reuters' Felix Salmon has obtained a statement from counsel hired by Dorian Nakamoto, the man Newsweek says created Bitcoin, denying the charge.

It's always good to remind yourself that we as humans only see a very little bit of light. Our slice of the electromagnetic spectrum, the slice known as visible light—sandwiched between the much larger wavelength domains of UV and infrared light—is only about a millionth of the whole range of possible wavelengths that photons exist in. That's a fun thing to note: we see according to what's useful for us to see, or what makes sense for us to see given the limitations of biology...

The famed scientist, and celebrity, had a lot more going on than just hosting a television series.

And you thought that Lego castle you built as a kid was impressive. Two engineers in England have set the world record for completing a Rubik's Cube with a robot made from the ubiquitous plastic...

Twenty-five years ago, a large, long-haired tabby was rescued from an Arizona animal shelter by a college student named Ali. Rufus the cat, on the verge of turning 25, has overcome moves, loss of loved ones and health issues to delight all at Danville's Oak Tree Animal Hospital.

A new study finds that the 5-second rule may be true for dropped foods. Should we believe it?