2+ hour, 49+ min ago  (251+ words) Through subterfuge, ingenuity, and an unceasing love of chemistry, 17-year-old boy scout David Hahn more than earned his "atomic energy" merit badge. However, nobody knew at the time that he'd eventually try his hand at the real thing. In the…...

3+ hour, 19+ min ago  (364+ words) Although some species of fungi and more than a few animals display a variety of bioluminescent abilities, no natural plant on Earth shares such glow-in-the-dark qualities, likely due to their metabolic cost. But in a world of gene-editing tools, what…...

21+ hour, 42+ min ago  (745+ words) It took a century for the family of Private 1st Class Charles Mc Allister to finally find closure. This story is a collaboration with Biography. com. The level of carnage in World War I led many to believe it was "the…...

17+ hour, 43+ min ago  (302+ words) New research suggests that a quantum computer could crack a crucial cryptography method with just 10, 000 qubits. "Unlike other quantum computing platforms, neutral atom qubits can be directly connected over large distances," Manuel Endres, a co-author of the paper from Caltech,…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (241+ words) This ancient technological marvel was staggeringly far ahead of its time. When did the history of computing begin? The 1945 creation of the first programmable computer, ENIAC, is a good guess. Or maybe we stretch it back to Charles Babbage and…...

21+ hour, 11+ min ago  (291+ words) The population drop opened the door for outsiders to repopulate with new demographics and cultures. According to the new research, construction of these tombs abruptly "ceased across continental northwestern Europe" at the end of the fourth millennium B. C. E. The break in…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (189+ words) Futuristic control of structure in some materials is being made possible by a physics loophole. Medieval knights may often have been equipped with some intimidating armor, but while a metal suit could be molded to exact body proportions, there was…...

23+ hour, 7+ min ago  (246+ words) The six-foot-tall birds employed guerilla-like tactics to fluster machine gun-equipped soldiers sent to stop emu-related chaos. "Each pack seems to have its leader now'a big black-plumed bird which stands fully six feet high and keeps watch while his mates carry…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (700+ words) His ideas challenge the core idea of quantum mechanics: that events are truly random. And if such uncertainty lies at the core of reality, then it would imply that these rules not only influence physical phenomena, but could also influence…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (615+ words) There were over 100 similar reports of radio signals supposedly from Earhart'some of which present some interesting possibilities This story is a collaboration with Biography. com. When faced with an unsolved historical mystery, what should we do with "potential clues" that…...