 Move Over Molasses: The 5 Weirdest Spills A molasses pipeline in Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii, last week was pumping the syrupy substance onto a ship when it sprung a leak, dumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of the goo into the ocean. The sugary fluid, which has sunk to the bottom, has killed thousands of fish, attracting sharks and other scavengers. Read More » 10-Inch-Long Earwax Plug Reveals Blue Whale's Life History  | A blue whale's buildup of earwax archives its history of stress levels and exposure to chemical pollutants, which could allow researchers to piece together new details about the animal's life, a study shows.
| Read More » Is Tor's Anonymous Internet Still Secure?  | Browsing the Web with The Onion Router, or Tor, is supposed to make you anonymous. Many of the encryption algorithms used by this popular Internet anonymizing protocol have likely been cracked by the NSA, says one security expert – and upgrading to the newest versions of Tor software won't be enough to protect your privacy.
| Read More » 4 Legless Lizard Species Discovered in California  | Four previously unknown species of snakelike creatures have been found in California — but don't call them snakes; they're legless lizards. Prior to the discovery of the new species, there was only one known legless lizard species in the United States: the California legless lizard.
| Read More » Colorado Floods: What Happens to All That Water?  | As flood waters slowly begin to recede from central Colorado, new flood warnings have cropped up downstream in Nebraska.
| Read More » From the Deepest Coma, New Brain Activity Found When a patient's brain falls completely silent, and electrical recordings devices show a flat line, reflecting a lack of brain activity, doctors consider the patient to have reached the deepest stage of a coma. However, new findings suggest there can be a coma stage even deeper than this flat line — and that brain activity can ramp up again from this state. Read More » Harvest Moon Tonight: Strange Facts About September's Full Moon  | Summer is drawing to a close in the Northern Hemisphere, and a symbol of fall hangs in the sky tonight (Sept. 18) to help drive that fact home — the Harvest Moon.
| Read More » How Much Longer Can Earth Support Life? Earth could continue to host life for at least another 1.75 billion years, as long as nuclear holocaust, an errant asteroid or some other disaster doesn't intervene, a new study calculates. Read More » Snoutbook? Pets Get Own Social Media App You already knew social media was really just a good excuse to share a bunch of silly pictures of your cat. Now, there's a social media network just for pets. Petigram is a new mobile app that focuses on creating a fun and interactive social network for pets. Ok, really for their owners, but you get the idea. Read More » Tiny Asteroid Gives Earth a Close Shave  | A small asteroid harmlessly zipped by Earth closer than the orbit of the moon today (Sept. 18).
| Read More » Mind-Control Parasite Kills Mice's Fear of Cats Permanently  | A fair amount of research has taken place on , the bizarre parasite that makes mice unafraid of cats, and the latest chapter is a strange one.
| Read More » Boulder Foils Plan to Explore Underwater Cave  | In 1976, two college students died while exploring the "Blue Hole," an underwater cave connected to a deep lake in Santa Rosa, N.M. Shortly thereafter, local officials poured rubble and boulders into the bottom of the pool and sealed it off with a grate to prevent any more amateur divers from entering the cave. The ploy worked — all too well.
| Read More » 100 Year Starship: Interstellar Space Travel Conference Warps Into Houston This Week  | Move over, Scotty: Some real-life engineers and scientists are flocking to Houston this week to debate the future of interstellar space travel.
| Read More » iPad Neck Strain: 5 Tips for Avoiding Injury  | From day one of the tablet revolution, everyone's been getting some pretty bum advice.
| Read More » A Blueprint for Ending the Euthanasia of Healthy Animals (Op-Ed)  | Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
| Read More » Vaporware Hype Hurts the 3D-Printing Marketplace (Op-Ed) Scott DunhamExpert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Read More » Why Your Child's Car Seat Might Not Be Safe (Op-Ed)  | Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
| Read More » What — and When — to Eat to Build Muscle (Op-Ed)  | Katherine Tallmadge Diet Simple: 195 Mental Tricks, Substitutions, Habits & Inspirations Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights
| Read More » Stately Tomb Design for Richard III's Reburial Revealed  | British officials have revealed their plans for a regal reburial of King Richard III, whose body was discovered in a hastily-dug medieval grave under a parking lot in Leicester, England, last summer.
| Read More » Looking for Bigfoot? New Map Shows Where to Search  | Reported sightings of Bigfoot — the legendary apelike creature that's been a favorite of cryptozoologists for decades — have abounded for decades. Now, for the first time, someone has created a map showing the places where alleged Bigfoot sightings have occurred.
| Read More » Why Earth's Inner and Outer Cores Rotate in Opposite Directions  | The Earth's magnetic field controls the direction and speed at which Earth's inner and outer cores spin, even though they move in opposite directions, new research suggests.
| Read More » Earth's Biggest Deep Earthquake Still a Mystery  | It's confirmed: The largest deep earthquake ever recorded happened in May off the coast of Russia. But this massive temblor is still a mystery to scientists.
| Read More » How About a Hug?! Nearby Galaxy Cluster Has Giant Plasma Arms  | A nearby cluster of galaxies is reaching out into the universe with colossal plasma arms — galactic tentacles so long they are nearly five times the width of the Milky Way, astronomers say.
| Read More » Mars Mystery Deepens: Curiosity Rover Finds No Sign of Methane  | NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has revealed no trace of methane, a potential sign of primitive life, on the Martian surface, contradicting past evidence of the gas spotted by spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet, researchers say.
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