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We think this kid who licked an entire subway rail should donate himself to science
This is one of the grosser ways you could interact with public transportation. But on the plus side, it could be of use to modern medicine!
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How we can slow global warming by smashing up an asteroid
Do not worry about global warming. Seriously. We are going to explode asteroids, and then, we're going to hide behind them, and it's going to be GREAT.
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Black spidery thingies on Mars will probably kill us all
Every once in awhile, a bit of science crosses your path, and you think, yes, this is how we're all going to die.
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This winter’s snowstorms will have names like Draco, Q, and Khan
The Weather Channel wants to name winter storms things like "Gandolf." That's Gandolf with an O, got it? It has NOTHING TO DO with Tolkein.
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A ‘radical homemaker’ shares her secret to greener, more affordable meat eating
With her new book "Long Way on a Little," the author of "Radical Homemakers" talks about how to use the bones, fat, and extra parts of grass-fed animals to make them last.
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Watch an octopus take apart a camera while punching a shark
To researchers, this baited camera is equipment for monitoring underwater ecosystems. To an octopus, it's just a complicated lunchbox.
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Meet the lake so polluted that spending an hour there would kill you
Thanks to a secret government nuclear facility, Lake Karachay may be the most polluted spot on the planet.
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What can climate hawks expect from the first presidential debate?
Moderator Jim Lehrer isn't likely to ask a direct question about climate change, but you can bet that energy policy will come up. David Roberts offers a primer.
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Thanks to climate change, Texas is up to its ears in dead crickets
Texas is having a very big problems with crickets and it's not just that the crickets are really gross, it's that when they die, they smell really bad.
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Clean energy showdown in Arizona
National politics tends to suck up all the attention. But a battle going on in Arizona could have a huge effect on the future of solar power.
