Using an unprecedented technique of matching stars to the locations of temples on Earth, a 15-year-old Canadian student says he’s discovered a forgotten Maya city in Central America. Images from space suggest he may actually be onto something. Read more…
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Teen Discovers Lost Maya City Using Ancient Star Maps
Fossils are cool and during an expedition earlier this year in Antarctica, scientists from the University of Queensland scientists collected a whole ton of them, some dating back to the Cretaceous era. Read more…
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An Expedition to Antarctica Uncovered a Treasure Trove of 71-Million-Year-Old Fossils
A San Diego-based EV conversion company salvaged a charred Ferrari ( they had many to choose from ) by turning it into what the company claims is the first fully electric Ferrari, a 415-horsepower electric tire-crusher. It’s glorious, if a little blasphemous. Read more…
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The World’s First Electric Ferrari Ditches The V8 For Tire-Crushing Electric Motors
Tomorrow, May 7, is the happiest day of the year for comics fans: Free Comic Book Day, which is both a celebration of the hobby and a chance to read tons of new comics given away without paying a dime! While some are reprints, most contain awesome new material—and here’s our guide to the very best of this year’s offerings. Read more…
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All the Best Comics You’ll Want to Snag on Free Comic Book Day
Need a pick-me-up on this dreary Friday afternoon? After checking out some of the nightmare-inducing life forms NOAA’s deep-sea diving robot discovered at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, sleep will be the last thing on your mind. Read more…
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Check Out the Seriously Gnarly Creatures Discovered at the Bottom of the Mariana Trench
Look around and count the number of screens surrounding you. You’ll probably run out of fingers before you’re done, but why stop there? Researchers at UC Berkeley have come up with a way to weave color-changing threads into fabrics, turning even garments into yet another display. Read more…
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Color-Changing Threads Might One Day Turn Your T-Shirt Into a Screen
There’s no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but there are some colorful visuals you can trip out on if you can figure out how to stare the right way. Here’s a video that supposedly shows a camera gliding through the spectrum of a rainbow and making its way through ROYGBIV backwards. Read more…
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What It’s Like to Look Straight into a Rainbow
There are ways to get in trouble with the law for just about everything: smoking weed, theft, horse theft, stealing a horse and teaching it to smoke weed, and even shouting “fire” in a crowded not-on-fire stable full of stoned horses. But numbers are pure and theoretical and definitely exempt from legal action, right? Read more…
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It’s Illegal to Possess or Distribute This Huge Number
Some kids save up allowance money to buy a afford a new bike. Jani, a 10-year-old Finnish boy, decided to hack Instagram, and now he’s $10, 000 richer. Read more…
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A 10-Year-Old Hacked Instagram
Earlier this year, scientists confirmed the presence of gravitational waves, a cosmological feature first predicted by Albert Einstein. In recognition of this remarkable achievement, the scientists involved in the study have won the $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize. Read more…
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Gravitational Wave Scientists Win $3 Million For Being Awesome