A study conducted by a UCLA research team concluded that searching the net can increase your brain function, further confirming that I’m a genius (or so says all of the internet IQ tests, that’s right, all of them baby.) The study followed the brain activity of 24 adults aged 55 and 78 years old, half of which had little to ...

Check out this snap taken by the Mars Global Surveyor on May 22, 2003. Every so often the planets align so that both Jupiter, Earth and the moon can all be captured in one wide angle breathtaking shot. Hit the jump to see where the planets were located when this shot was taken.

We are sick, disgusting individuals. About 95% of people claim they wash their hands after taking a piss or poopy, but as you can imagine, the actual percentage of people who actually do so is far less. A new public health study tracked the bathroom doings of over 200,000 individuals and the results were staggering. Only 64% of females washed ...

I’ve kinda always wondered about this. Do monsters have the same basic anatomic features as us humans? I mean think about it. When you think of monsters, they could really be made of anything, sort of like aliens. Well, now we know. These anatomical charts come complete with spiked vertebrates and massive human filled colons. Hit the jump for Godzilla ...

You can pretend all you want that your kid is husky or big-boned, but when it takes donuts to get him interested in science, he’s straight-up fat. Link [via]

I’m pretty sure it’s not ‘shopped. What an incredible shot! The photo shows a praying mantis devouring a humming bird. Don’t know how this happened or the circumstances around the photo, but all I can say is… wow. Link

Perhaps the best use of auto-tune since the release of the iPhone’s I Am T-Pain application, this segment of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos features Stephen Hawking and Sagan himself getting down with their bad selves. Link

When I think of famous side profiles the first person I think about is Alfred Hitchcock. A team of scientists at the University of California at San Francisco “injected light-sensing and communication genes from various bacterial species into Escherichia coli.” That’s right, the poopy virus. The scientists then projected an image of Hitchcock onto a plate of bacteria, leaving an ...

Although the temptation is so hard to bear, the Bloodbot told me personally that if you’re a good boy, it’ll try not to stab you in your face with its needle. Bloodbot was made to give nurses more time to read their gossip rag magazines and to swoon over the new hunky residents. Those five minutes of patient interaction was ...

Up until recently, meteorologists used a combo of� ground weather sensors, weather balloons, satellite imagery and computer calculations to determine the current weather conditions and future forecast for your location. AirDat uses wallet-sized sensors, attached to commercial jets, to deliver some of the most accurate weather forecasts ever presented. Covering more ground than ever before, AirDat can deliver specific local ...