We’re Building Millions of Homes in the Line of Wildfires
Last year was a very bad year for wildfire damage across the U.S., and it’s only going to get worse. One way to…
You Are Related to a Horrible Assless Creature
Here’s a joke for you: What has one horrible mouth and no butt? Your great-great-great-great-great-(etc.) grandpa,…
This Two-Faced Calf Is a Survivor
A striking, two-faced calf has become a bit of a local star the small town of Campbellsville, Kentucky. Lucky has now…
Apple Security Guards Kicked Cupertino’s Mayor Out of Its HQ
Cupertino mayor Barry Chang is apparently not an Apple fanboy. In a fiery interview with The Guardian, Chang says he…
Yep, Apple's WWDC 2016 Definitely Starts on June 13th
Siri let slip yesterday that Apple’s WWDC conference—the week-long exploration of Apple’s software development—would…
Watch How One Man Took the Internet to 60,000 People in Rural Nepal
This is Mahabir Pun. Fed up with the fact that he had to hike for two days whenever he wanted to check his email, he…
Biologists Coax Worms Into Growing New Kinds of Heads
In what sounds like a plot line from a BioShock game, a team of biologists has coaxed an animal into growing a new head…
Can We Turn Stem Cells Into Eggs?
Northeastern University biologist Jonathan Tilly is certain he’s found egg-making stem cells in adult mice. If he’s…
India Is Training ‘Quacks’ To Do Real Medicine. Here's Why
Aditya Bandopadhyay has treated the sick for more than twenty years. He works in the village of Salbadra, in the state…
A Reptile With No Penis Just Solved a Baffling Scientific Mystery
The tuatara isn’t actually a lizard. It’s the last survivor of a 250 million year old group of reptiles that mostly…
A Man is His Son's Uncle, Thanks to a Vanished Twin
Last week at Buzzfeed News, Dan Vergano described the surprising results of a paternity test–the first known case of a…
Salt Lake City Wants to Put Buildings In the Medians of Its Extra-Wide Streets
A few months ago I wrote about a proposal to fix the housing crisis in San Francisco by building skinny apartments in…
Internet For All Is an Impossible Dream Right Now
From satellites, to autonomous solar-powered drones, or balloons, there have been plenty of ideas recently on how to…
Facebook Is Going to Send Free Internet Across Africa From Satellites
Facebook has announced that it’s teaming up with French-based satellite provider Eutelsat Communications to beam free…
Testosterone in the Womb Affects How Our Faces Look After Puberty
Hormone surges at puberty trigger a lot of physical changes in both men and women, morphing child-bodies into adult…
Why Some Boys in the Dominican Republic Don't Grow Penises Until Puberty
Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You, a new BBC series focused on how our prenatal development shapes our…
4 Billion People Are Still Without Internet
The United Nations’ Broadband Commission has published a new report whose headline finding is that 57 percent of the…