Who'd of guessed that saying, I'm watching Star Trek for scientific purposes, would carry some actual weight.  

Now, if they taught this kind of science in high school, instead of lame chemistry and lectures on borophyll , we'd have paid more attention.

If someone would just finesse this process a little more, the world could have a new low-cost way to perform DNA testing.  Shhh - do you hear that?  It's the sound of Maury 's...

Is this the future of food? Are we cutting the guy that makes your fries soggy out of the equation? I'm all about it. Give me my insta-burger.

You are a chordate -- which is to say, you are a vertebrate. Having a spine is neat, yes? It would suck to walk with your upper body all flaccid and hanging by your knees. That would be hilarious...

Some of the greatest innovations in spaceflight have occurred in Texas, so it stands to reason Hawthorne, California's privately owned space exploration company, SpaceX, would test the next...

What's the purpose of pumping an aluminum projectile with one million amps? Other than putting Arnold Schwarzenegger's adorable little hand-held version from Eraser to shame, it will allow...

The good folks over at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland provided this video from the Solar Dynamics Observatory , that was launched two years ago on an Atlas V rocket from...

Makes me happy that there are people significantly smarter than I who spend their days doing awesome game-to-IRL stuff like this. So, does this mean we're one step closer to a Jetsons -esque future,...

Considering his countless contributions to the evolution of video games while with Atari, including co-designing arcade hits Asteroids and Centipede , leading design on Gauntlet and the Rush...

A scientist at the University of Texas Dallas decided to be all awesome and create an invisibility cloak using "transparent carbon nanotube sheets." I don't know what that means, but it...

Coincidentally, the zombie cucumber is a close relative of the ghost chili.  Also of note -- I totally made that up.