The dress code in Bangladesh just got a lot more casual, thanks to an effort to cut the nation’s energy usage. According to the prime minister’s orders, men can no longer wear ties, jackets, or suits to work. The new rule is part of a pla...

Showers (as in, actual showers) of dead tadpoles, fish and even frogs have confused scientists, meteorologists, and officials in central Japan’s Ishikawa Prefecture, located on the Japan Sea Coast. One resident found 13 dead carp, each around 3...

What are you going to be this Halloween? If you’re looking for costume ideas in the realm of science—or anything beyond the usual political candidates or scantily-clad cats/devils/pirates—you’ve come to the right place. Here...

Anyone who has watched their fair share of baseball games has heard TV analysts, and probably other fans, wax ad naseum about strategic match-ups between righties and lefties. No...

Twenty thousand years ago, it was a lousy time to be a woolly mammoth. As the last ice age advanced, the grass they liked to eat became buried under layers of snow. But one plentiful source of nutrients was easily accessible to mammoths—their...

• Gardak! To learn about children and language, Dad speaks to son only in Klingon for first three years of the child’s life. • In Soviet Russia, blog writes you! Maksim Suraev, a Russian cosmonaut, joins the blogosphere with a healthy dose of cold...

As you’ve probably heard, a man’s testicles hang down because sperm are hyper-sensitive to temperature and need to be a little cooler than the inside of the body. But isn’t there more to it than that? Oh, definitely yes, says research psychologist...

Pop quiz: Which former NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year is (literally) a big fan of science, and this magazine in particular? That’s right, defensive end Hugh Douglas. Recently, as part of an ongoing effort to playfully engage the public in science,...

It’s Friday at last. So to help you goof off and avoid work, we bring you a double dose of time vampire iPhone apps. First up, for the cat lovers out there who tragically don’t have any cats, comes CatPaint, a $0.99 app that lets you add images of...

In the latest installment of “science ruins your guilty pleasure,” a new report confirms what everyone pretty much already knew–movie popcorn is terrible for you. Via the Los Angeles Times: A medium-sized popcorn and medium soda at the nation’s...