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August 17, 2017

According to researchers, Sriracha lovers are masochists

Sriracha might be the world’s new favorite condiment -- but it is also a trigger for the hidden masochist in all of us.

June 28, 2017

A bizarre new form of liquid water is discovered

Liquid water comes in two forms — low density and high density, scientists have found.

January 13, 2017

Chicken or egg question cracked: Hampton Creek scientists create plant-based egg

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Neither.

December 15, 2016

Famed astronomer Tycho Brahe literally had golden hair, study says

Silence is golden, the saying goes. But so, evidently, was the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe.

November 23, 2016

Electronic tongue created that can tell beers apart

A team of Spanish researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona have created an electronic "tongue" that can tell the difference between beer varieties and the amount of alcohol each variety contains.

November 22, 2016

The future of high-tech meat substitutes

Today's average American hamburger comes from a cow – but it may not be long before it comes straight from a lab in Silicon Valley.

October 5, 2016

3 win Nobel chemistry prize for world's tiniest machines

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing the world's smallest machines, 1,000 times thinner than a human hair but with the potential to revolutionize computer and energy systems.

August 26, 2016

Black dress undergoes dramatic transformation after artist submerges it in the Dead Sea

The Internet is no stranger to dresses that go viral – and the latest viral phenomenon documents the dramatic transformation of a black dress that was submerged in the Dead Sea.

August 23, 2016

Creeping slime is coating hallowed monuments

It sounds like the stuff of horror films: a creeping black slime that can't be killed.

August 14, 2016

Water changes from green back to blue at troubled Olympic pool

Goodbye green.