Every day, scientists make discoveries that change the way we live. But sometimes, just sometimes, they achieve results that are so extraordinary or unexpected that they literally don't know what to do with them. Here are five of the most puzzling. Read More >>
Featured comment by NickMackz:
"I was about to post this as well. When you heat atoms into a plasma, all the electrons are stripped off and move about freely. It has to be hotter sti..." More »
In what historians are calling the aviation equivalent to finding King Tut's tomb, a World War II fighter plane has been found in the Sahara desert 70 years after it crashed. Even more impressive, the plane is perfectly preserved—it hasn't been touched and hasn't even been seen until now. Read More >>
Featured comment by snapper.fishes:
"Well that was a pretty bad way to go. Probably would have been easier if the plane just blew up and took him along with it." More »
The Space Shuttle Discovery hitched a ride yesterday on NASA's 747 to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. It's yet another period at the end of the melancholy final paragraph of the Space Shuttle program. So long, Discovery. And thank you for the memories. Read More >>