June may just have the best fails of the year! Watch this hilarious fail compilation to find out!

Iran's semi-official news outlets have something of a reputation for taking conspiracy theorism to the next level. They've written on Israel's secret plans to annex Iraq, the conspiracy by Western media to fabricate quotes by Iranian P ...

Police officers face stresses inherent to the job and need more helping dealing with them than they’re getting

Behold the very first of Lego Simpsons sets! Or at least, that's Eurobricks user Carlos S claims. There are no details about it except what we can see on this photo of alleged box: 2523 pieces, six minifigs including the full Family plus Flander ...

Recognizing the power of emotions, another one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century spent years studying the emotional effects of his body language. Practicing his hand gestures and analyzing images of his movements allowed him to beco ...

Bilzerian’s photos get deleted often, he tells me. He sounds mournful. “I had some super-hot chicks in Cabo naked in the pool. The shot was blurry. You could see some butt crack, I guess.” Thanks to Instagram, he’ll never be able to prove it. There’s ...

Over the past year copyright holders have worked hard to stop The Pirate Bay from operating, but without success. Despite several domain changes and ISP blockades in various countries the resilient torrent site keeps on growing. This growth is reflec ...

After making its debut during the WWDC 2013 Keynote, the reimagined, reformulated Mac Pro finally arrived at iFixit's doorstep. Join us as we turn the (very) Late 2013 Mac Pro inside-out

If you lived near Chernobyl or Fukushima, would you stay?

You may have already heard what happened to Rap Genius last week. A Web developer caught the lyrics analysis site in an elaborate scheme to ensure that links to its pages topped the Google results for rap and pop lyrics searches. To penalize the site ...

Facebook is a company that knows the personal habits of more than one billion people across the globe. That can be a scary thought — especially when you consider that Facebook is using this data to target ads and may share it with people and business ...

Using high-resolution functional MRI (fMRI) imaging in patients with Alzheimer's disease and in mouse models of the disease, Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have clarified three fundamental issues about Alzheimer's: wh ...

The median Twitter account has only one follower. That’s what Jon Bruner, a data journalist at O’Reilly Radar, found when he algorithmically queried the service about its users at random this fall. But then again, the median Twitter account doesn’t t ...

For anyone not used to bargaining, there’s a keen anxiety that comes with shopping trips to the souks of Marrakech or Beijing’s Silk Market. With every purchase comes the nagging question: “Am I the sucker?” And though standard pricing common in the ...

Six years after the first killings committed through the online classifieds site, vicious criminals are still using it to lure their victims to their deaths.

Here is the thing about ACL tears: They're not just another injury. They are the Godzilla of injuries. They are painful beyond tolerance, they take eons to rehab, and they always leave a lingering doubt in the athlete's mind that he will ev ...

The online building-block game Minecraft is a great tool that can lead to the strengthening of a player's creative and strategic abilities. For one unfortunate child, though, the game led to something else: a felony charge.

South Korea on Sunday announced the expansion of its air defense identification zone, extending it farther south into an area that overlaps with similar zones of Japan and China. The South’s decision, widely expected after a week of government discus ...

Outbreaks of epidemic diseases, especially diseases that appear to be new, can seriously affect the organisation of human societies – bubonic plague forced changes in social organisation and agriculture in Europe, while diseases such as smallpox, car ...

Sexual frustration impairs the health of fruit flies and causes premature death, according to new research. Scientists found that male flies who were stimulated to mate but prevented from doing so, had their lives cut short by up to 40%. Those allowe ...