If I told you that a Liverpudlian woman had her jaw dislocated at a restaurant, you'd assume it was assault or a bar fight or something, right? You'd be wrong. Because a Liverpudlian woman had her jaw dislocated by a sandwich. More »
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The giant water bug Lethocerus patruelis is the largest European true bug and the largest European water insect. The adult bugs reach an impressive 8 cm in length, and the largest representatives of the same family are even bigger – up to almost 12 cm. A new article published in the open access...
Hey, San Antonio Spurs fans. We know you might be a little bummed out this morning after a pretty rough finish to Game 4. That's understandable — your favorite squadron went from the brink of a commanding 3-1 NBA Finals lead over the Miami Heat to an anything-can-happen 2-2 tie (with the...
Humans and most mammals can determine the spatial origin of sounds with remarkable acuity. We use this ability all the time - crossing the street; locating an invisible ringing cell phone in a cluttered bedroom. To accomplish this small daily miracle, the brain has developed a circuit that's...
If simply not being a Christian is enough to land you in hell for eternity, and people who actually do commit more serious crimes also go to hell for all of eternity, how is that fair? If someone doesn't know about Christianity through no fault of their own, they're going to be eternally...
Two new minute spider species have been discovered from the Sichuan and Chongqing, China. The tiny new spiders are both less than 2 mm in length, with*Trogloneta yuensis*being as little as 1.01 mm and Mysmena wawuensis measured to be the even tinier 0.75 mm, which classes it among the smallest...
Imagine walking into a room and stumbling straight into a wasp nest that's nearly 22 feet big. That's what happened in the Canary Islands. Neighbors had been growing concerned over a vacant home so they notified the police. When the police entered the home, they discovered the home wasn't empty...
The Gizmo Gremlin is a stuffed animal, but it's stuffed with paper. I got this gremlin from a friend. I figured this gremlin was won at a fair because of the material. The left ear is falling off which can easily be sewed together if I do not and the eyes have a few little white marks on it. I...
In the first year of business Little Giant serviced over 260 jobs from their inner city Auckland office. During that time they've worked with over 100 Australasian clients across a range of industries with clients ranging from alcohol brands to accountants to fashion labels.
We've all been at a huge outdoor event which renders our phone useless, with no available bandwidth to make calls or check a map. That's why Sandia Labs has built this giant cluster, to simulate large networks of phones and make sure they place nicely together. More »
A new study of giant viruses supports the idea that viruses are ancient living organisms and not inanimate molecular remnants run amok, as some scientists have argued. The study reshapes the universal family tree, adding a fourth major branch to the three that most scientists agree represent the...
Spurs beat the New York Red Bulls 2-1 in a friendly dubbed the Barclays New York Cup (probably by an intern). For pulling off what is easily the greatest sporting accomplishment anywhere in the world this week, Spurs were awarded medals the size of dinner plates while goal-scorer Gareth Bale was...
The classic View-Master toy gave a lot of us our first look at 3D images—a technology we would one day learn to despise. But that doesn't mean there still isn't a soft spot for those plastic goggles and paper discs in our hearts, which you can immortalize on your wall with this fantastic photo...
Like the mystery of how the great pyramids in Egypt were built, no one's really sure how the giant Moia statues on Easter Island were transported to the platforms where they were later discovered. But researchers think they might have finally figured it out. More »
After a magazine article noted that its reception area was "small and routine," ad agency Boys and Girls decided to do something about it. So they created this brilliant floating reception desk that looks like it was inspired by Pixar's Up. More »
In particular, the middle of our index is populated with some extremely affordable performance machinery, which can be every bit as involving as cars that cost double or even triple the price. Perhaps the most exciting thing about this list is how it’s set to grown in the coming months. With...