We’ve shown you how to spot an ATM skimmer, but now that debit card thieves are dealing with a savvy bunch they’ve decided to step up their ...

We came across a visualization of Pi you won’t believe. Pi represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, and is an irrat...

In Northern China a schoolgirl plunges through a weak section of pavement into a deep hole. Girl swallowed by pavement

A Table of Slightly Wrong Equations and Identities Useful for Approximations and/or Trolling Teachers. xkcd: Approximations

The foods you eat before and after a good workout, and the fluids you drink during your workout go a long way towards making sure your exerc...

In 2010, the European Space Agency launched Cryosat, a spacecraft designed to monitor changes in the shape and thickness of polar ice on Ear...

Do you want to put about 16 terabytes of data online? If you do, you might want to give Google a call. Mind you, it isn’t going to be cheap ...

Have you ever wondered what it would actually look like if you could try crazy experiments using items such as firecrackers, lawn mowers, ch...

Everyone has experienced that sharp, shooting headache as a result of stuffing their face with ice cream. Previously, scientists have sugges...

The offer of 25GB of free space has always been one of the most attractive features of Microsoft’s SkyDrive, but surprisingly it’s never bee...

When Google acquired Keyhole — the tool that would become Google Earth — in 2004, the company believed it would become the ultimate video ga...

A pilot’s preoccupation with his cellphone caused his crew to forget to lower the landing gear just 500 feet above ground, according to a re...

What does it mean to “Google bomb” something — or someone? For starters, a Google bomb isn’t as sudden and life-threatening as it sounds. So...

There are two kinds of icebergs, tabular and non-tabular. The tabular ones are what they sound like, big flat sheets of ice. Non-tabular are...

The Trashcam Project is a group of garbage collectors from Hamburg, Germany, who take stunning photographs using 110-litre dumpsters that ha...

Jet lag is inevitable when you are traveling long distances by plane, and it can leave you feeling completely wrecked for several days to a ...

There’s a lot of posturing regarding how much we pay for power, but how much is it on a state by state basis? Which Australian States Have ...

We frequently think of big takeaway chains as offering identical food throughout the world, but that’s often not the case. A study published...

Whether you’re thinking easier ways to park your car or ideas for the home of the future, studying how we’ll live in the next 10, 50 or 100 ...

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