In January 1969, an oil well blew up off the coast of Santa Barbara, spilling an estimated 11 million litres of black goo into the ocean. Now in 2015, they're dealing with yet another oil spill, once again off the coast of Santa Barbara.
Why doesn’t it have a back button? I ask no one in particular. Why do I have to reach all the way up there to go back where I came from? Soon, there may be an answer for my iPhone frustration.
This amazing machine is capable of peeling oranges ridiculously fast. I wonder what other miserable fruit it's capable of tackling. Read More >>
The bus recently hit a top speed of 76.8 miles per hour at the Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire—a record for a regular service bus.
Windows 10 is set to mark a sea change in the way Microsoft’s OS works, but even the modern-looking Windows 8.1 carries a bunch of legacy tools and apps that you may not know about.
Everyone loves spy gear that features cleverly hidden weapons or secret functionality—boys and girls alike—and that’s what Nerf has created with the Secret Shot.
The number of smart devices is skyrocketing, so it was really only a matter of time before the internet of things invaded our dining rooms.
This incredible video shows an air tanker refuelling another air tanker, in mid-air and against a full moon. Pretty amazing stuff. Read More >>
If you’ve been paying attention the past few years, you’ve heard about many of the near-magical effects of the hormone oxytocin on the brain. But it’s not the only chemical that affects the brain that way.
There is so much to consider when taking down a giant and you have to make sure everything is covered.
You could even use the engine to power an over-the-top pencil sharpener if you wanted to try and write-off the £197.01 kit as a business expense. Just don’t tell HMRC where you got that idea.
Over 40,000 vintage photos of New York City from the New York Public Library archives have been geotagged to a Google Map, letting you click right through history on every street corner. Read More >>
Learn these five campfires and you’ll be able to cook food, scare off wild animals, stay warm or just have a bonfire on the beach.
We already knew cephalopods are amazing creatures. Still, sensing light with one’s skin is a pretty impressive trick, even for the rock stars of the invertebrate world.
In its latest attempt to brand itself as a media entity, Snapchat is now hiring journalists to cover the 2016 presidential race. To Snap the race, more accurately.
The fear of genetically-modified creatures escaping from the lab is the basis for a thousand sci-fi stories, but it’s also a legitimate concern. That’s why genetic engineers are inventing kill switches.
