YouTuber/future Darwin Award winner TheBackyardScientist demonstrates how to use electricity to burn fractal patterns into wood, creating an undeniably awesome and nerdy thing to hang on your wall. How is he not dead is not a mystery. See more >>
This guy connected a self-igniting propane torch to some tubes and then coloured the flame so that it pops off green when it blasts. It looks like an alien’s weapon! Read More >>
Nature doesn't end at city borders, it's just transformed. That's why scientists are finding new animal species in urban areas, where the ecosystems favour scavengers, weeds and junk-eaters – and it comes as no surprise that Los Angeles has its own unique fly species.
Does a dog need to have a certain look to behave in a certain way? Seeking some explanation for our present-day obsession with predictability, many are surprised to find the trail leads back to eugenics.
They're among our most awe-inspiring creatures, but we'd never want the world's deadliest animals too close to home. But new scientific evidence suggests that we need them far more than we realised.
With the right state of mind, enough time on your hands, and a can-do attitude/darkened worldview, your casual Wikipedia browsing can quickly devolve into hours spent among the site's weird, bizarre, and morbidly fascinating black holes.
Oi! Treverrow! Eight of our dinosaurs are missing!
Amazon wants to test drones outside of the testing sites designated by the FAA.
An American couple in Pennsylvania found a purple squirrel in their backyard. No one knows why it's purple. And it's really freaking purple.
Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, right? Wrong! I think. Honestly, all I'm positively sure of after watching this mind-bending One Minute Physics lesson is that I need to go point a laser at the moon asap.
