Scientists in China have built a device capable of reading letters only millimeters wide from over a kilometer away. The laser, which could very well become an active spy tool, has achieved this impressive feat in real-world urban conditions.
The laser was developed by a team of…
Inventors may hope that their creations will bring fame and fortune, but sometimes, they just lead to an untimely death. Here are four of the oddest cases of inventors killed by their own inventions…
Czech stuntman Karel Soucek shot to fame in 1984 when he survived a barrel ride…
In the thin air of Nepal’s highlands, scientists are witnessing humans evolving in real time as they adapt to one of Earth’s harshest environments.
Above 3,500 meters (around 11,500 feet), oxygen levels drop significantly. Most people who ascend to these heights without…
We’ve all seen the adverts. ‘This one, simple trick will blitz the blubber around your belly’; ‘Turn your body into a furnace and burn off your spare tyre with this diet hack’; ‘Get Adonis abs by doing this five-minute workout’. But exactly how sceptical of their claims should we…
The first photos of your newborn might capture their sweet baby blues peeking out from under sleepy lids. But by their first…
Massive Megatherium sloths once stood as large as Asian elephants, ripping foliage off treetops with prehensile tongues like today’s giraffes.
“They looked like grizzly bears but five times larger,” says paleontologist Rachel Narducci from the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Megatherium…
Why is this conflict happening? The short version is that Trump and his advisers believe that tariffs will help the US economy by encouraging construction of factories here, reducing trade deficits and punishing barriers to entry of US products in other countries.
“We will supercharge our…
Caffeine doesn’t just make it harder to fall asleep; it changes how the brain behaves during rest. New research shows that caffeine alters brain activity in ways that make sleep look more like wakefulness, pushing neural networks into a heightened, complex state typically linked with…
If you thought human birth was seriously twisted, get a load of the Mount Augustus snail from New Zealand. This giant carnivorous gastropod pushes 5-millimeter-wide eggs out of a pore just below its head.
The pain-in-the-neck form of reproduction was recently caught on camera by Lisa…
Six gray whales have died in the San Francisco Bay Area region in the last week, officials…