Don't let a lack of backyard pond discourage you from turning Space Balls into an opera on ice. All that stands between you and your dream is some PVC pipe and plastic sheeting. Building an...

There’s nothing more fun during the Winter than to climb up a giant hill and sled down. The only problem is that nobody likes dragging a sled up the...

Just look at it. Banana Saver Clip by Evriholder Products (Thanks, notthemessiah!) Previously:Just look at this awesome banana bunker. Boing Boing HOWTO disassemble a banana - Boing...

Everyone is aware that the asteroids are determined to kill us all. But did you know our most foolproof defense? Why, just grab the nearest 60,000 miles of rope, dummy. That's right, an Air...

SAN FRANCISCO — Google will become directly involved in deploying energy technologies, the company’s director of climate initiatives said Monday. The company has long supported and...

Flurries of questions about mysterious triangle-shaped snowflakes may soon subside, thanks to new research on snowflake formation. Most snowflakes are hexagons because of the arrangement of...

Researchers at the Broad Institute and Whitehead Institute (both in Cambridge, Massachusetts) have discovered a chemical that kills breast cancer stem cells in mice. These cells are believed to be...

The highly publicized dangers of cell phones just continue to multiply. While stories about brain tumors, cancer, and oblivious, phone-happy drivers receive the majority of the publicity, various...

I spent a year during college living abroad. There were four phones to which we had access and they were in a bomb shelter in the building’s basement. If we wanted to make a call we needed...

The new terminal at Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport is the world's largest earthquake-safe building. You're looking at the over two million square feet of scaffolding that support it, all...

Instead of replacing the St. Louis Zoo's deceased polar bears with live ones, zoo officials put robots up in their place. This slightly-better-than-average yard display will surely be remembered...

The latest evidence in the disappearance of the mammoths, and nine other North American species weighing over a ton, comes from fossilized dung fungus. But despite their lowly origin, if the new...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could restart as early as this weekend after more than a year of repairs. But officials have avoided giving an exact date for sending beams of protons around the 27km (17 mile) circular tunnel which houses the collider. The LHC was first switched on in 2008, but had to be shut down when a faulty electrical connection caused one tonne of helium to leak into the tunnel. The vast machine is located 100m below the French-Swiss border. Operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), the LHC will recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang.

I see dozens, even hundreds, of people every day. I have a compromised immune system. It is flu season. Handshaking is not my friend. “The handshake is thought by some to have originated as a...

Proving that we might not be quite ready to enter into the space age of modern warfare, a robot-controlled U.S. fighter jet went haywire in Afghanistan Sunday, and had to be shot down to prevent...

CERN is reporting that the Large Hadron Collider could circulate particle beams through both of its pipes in just over a week. If all goes well, the first collisions would begin soon after...

There's tons of junk swirling around our planet, so much that the International Space Station (ISS) astronauts had to sleep in escape pods in case some of it punctured their orbiting home. When NASA detected an approaching piece of space debris l...

Giant photos to go on display nationwide

New ANL research is funded by $7M USD in new grant money from the U.S. Department of Energy

It sounds highly implausible, but NEC says it has created a pair of specs that can listen to a foreign language and beam a translation directly into the wearer's eyes. The TeleScouter is based around a combination of voice recognition software and a machine...