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Fingers in its ears and singing loudly, the Wall Street Journal reports on the hottest July ever

Not that the newspaper is willfully lying to its customers, but we suggest you not let it sell you a parrot.

Sperm whales sleep standing up

Sperm whales spend most of their time sailing lazily through the deep, only occasionally stopping to have a terrifying penis. (The ones in the video are right whales, but I assume the sperm whale is much the same.) Basically, their normal activity looks not unlike you and me sleeping. But it turns out their sleeping […]

West Nile virus outbreak causes Dallas to declare emergency

Is climate change to blame? Hard to say. Is this a preview of coming attractions for everywhere else? Could very well be.

Harry Reid slugs fossil fuels in the face

The Senate's top Democrat isn't only throwing punches at Romney. He's also got it in for climate deniers and the coal industry.

Normal-looking trees might be actually be stuffed with methane

Diseased but healthy-looking trees might contribute as much as 10 percent of global methane emissions.

Q&A with ‘Mohawk Guy’ Bobak Ferdowsi, the new face of science

I love the fact that NASA’s dishy mohawked flight director Bobak Ferdowsi is now basically a household name, putting a human (and handsome) face on the Curiosity mission and space exploration in general. If we’re going to survive as a civilization or a species, we need to get excited about science, and it helps when […]

Great news: The world is on the brink of a massive boom in oil production

You can't spell "dystopia" without O-Y.

New NASA time-lapse video makes Earth look almost as cool as Mars

Mars is the star of the news cycle right now, but this new time-lapse video of Earth from the International Space Station kind of gives the Red Planet a run for its money.

For this cat, learning to surf is a survival skill

I’m really hoping this is a glimpse of evolution in action — like, over thousands of years, the cats that know how to work surfboards will be more likely to survive dog attacks and live long enough to breed, and in a few millennia we’ll have a race of semi-aquatic feline surfer dudes.

U.S. curbs nuke plants till it figures out how to clean up after them

Since the government isn't clear on how it will get rid of nuclear waste, it's going to stop issuing permits. Makes sense.