The phone booths of New York City have all but disappeared, but their remained can be found if you know where to look

Concern about privacy, combined with frustration over censorship and content blocking, is driving millions of people to use Tor and other anonymity tools, research finds. By Jemima Kiss

Air travel did have a Golden Age. There was more space, classier interiors and bolder designs. You don't even have to go back to the 50s and 60s to see that. Here are some of the actual cabin interiors for the Boeing 747s in the 1970s. They are awesome.

In the latest installment of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy sci-fi author Joe Haldeman talks about the future of war, and he's not optimistic that things will change any time soon.

"Vertical farms" are promising a new, environmentally friendly way to feed the rapidly swelling populations of cities worldwide. In March, the world's largest vertical farm is set to open up shop in Scranton. Built by Green Spirit Farms (GSF) of New Buffalo, Michigan, it will only be a single storey covering 3.25 hectares, but with racks stacked six high it will house 17 million plants. And it is just one of a growing number.

What are the great MLK speeches we've never heard? We pick six overlooked gems from King -- and each blows away the popular image of the civil rights leader.

Also, how did scientists get that sensor onto the bee in the first place?

Surgeons in Oxford have used a gene therapy technique to improve the vision of six patients who would otherwise have gone blind.

If you've ever had one too many beers with your friends one night, you'll know how terrible that next morning can be. Hangovers are no fun, and if you drink, there's really no way to avoid them. But is there a type of alcohol that gives a worse hangover than the others?

Uploaded by: sillygal This old house still standing along the dismal swamp canal on Va side. I had the pleasure of going into the house...Edgar Allen Poe supposedly stayed there for a while when he was writing the Raven. If walls could talk.

The greatest virtue of science is that it uses irrefutable facts, data, and evidence to force us to accept the harsh truths that we, flawed humanity, may wish to ignore. Like the fact that children are--scientifically speaking--small bundles of misery.

The glaciers of the Italian Alps are slowly melting to reveal horrors from the Great War, preserved for nearly a century

CNN Reporter Stoned: Gets Giggly Contact High During Story on Colorado Legalization. CNN's "Gone To Pot" series featured "Cannabis Tours," a marijuana limo tour of dispensaries in Colorado. Reporter Randi Kaye was in the back of a limo while several people smoked large joints...

The 80-year-old, who chooses to live a nomadic and solitary life in Southern Iran, hasn’t bathed in sixty years, believing “cleanliness brings him sickness”. Adding to his unusual lifestyle Haji says his favorite food is rotten, dead porcupine and he smokes a pipe packed with animal feces.

A puppy stolen from an Illinois family has been reunited with its family after five years. Dwayne Jackson got a call Sunday afternoon from the Greenville Humane Society Sunday asking him if he’d lost his dog.

A decade ago, AMD brought us the first dual-core x86 processor. Then, starting in 2008, the company came out with tri-core and quad-core designs in quick...

An Afghan citizen has been granted asylum in the UK for religious reasons - because he is an atheist. The man fled to the UK from a conflict involving his family in Afghanistan in 2007, aged 16, and was allowed to stay in the UK until 2013. He was brought up a Muslim, but during his time in the UK became an atheist, his legal team said.

Fifty years ago, the U.S. surgeon general first declared that smoking tobacco causes lung cancer. Popular Science readers could have known that was coming.

These caves maintain a freezing temperature year-round. Combined with moisture, the chill can make for stunning and varied ice formations. Grab a hot cup of tea and wrap up in a warm blanket-- these coldly beautiful images of nature's finest ice caves may leave you with goose-bumps.

Professional photographer Tim Tadder gathered a bunch of awesome bald men and hurled water balloons at their heads to capture the explosion of water at various intervals. He named this project "Water Wigs."

After college, as my friends left Michigan for better opportunities, I was determined to help fix this broken, chaotic city by building my own home in the middle of it. I was 23 years old.

Electronic cigarette companies have a new swagger thanks to booming sales and better products than ever.

Nutrient-dense sweet potato fries are a healthy alternative to standard French fries, and chances are they will get devoured just as quickly. Serve these enticing oven fries as an after-school snac...

Bad news for all you cat lovers: That feline you are obsessed with is a total jerk. Sure, cats are cute, soft, lovable and an endless source of viral GIFs and memes, but in actuality, they kinda suck.

A funky battery that’s made of natural materials and uses liquid tanks is being developed in a lab at Harvard. If the breakthrough makes it to market it could be a low cost energy storage option for clean power.

Previous attempts by Apple and Samsung to negotiate a truce in the patent wars haven't exactly panned out, but they haven't given up hope yet. The

If you've ever been convinced by a salesperson that you truly wanted a product, done something too instinctively, or made choices that seemed entirely out of character, then you've had an idea planted in your mind. Here's how it's done.

Protesters, buskers, preachers, the young: all could end up with 'ipnas'. Of course, if you're rich, you have nothing to fear

Every time virtual-reality company Oculus brings a prototype of its Rift headset to a show, it takes another big step forward. And the protoype at this year’s CES may be the biggest leap yet.

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