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Behold the science of engineering. LEGO engineering.

National Geographic reports on another Chinese river-dweller struggling to survive – the giant sturgeon, also known as the “underwater panda”: Adult sturgeons, which can measure […]

We’ve been watching this thing for four centuries, and we only now noticed it had a tail, as Nature reports. A really long tail: Astronomers […]

Nature eases chafing on a tectonic level: Researchers drilling deep into the San Andreas fault in California report in today’s Nature the presence of talc […]

Researchers Gunter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen of the University of Koblenz have told New Scientist (and other sources) that they’ve broken the light barrier, sending […]

There’s been some press lately about studies that show a correlation between marijuana smoking and psychosis – as in, smoke dope, increase your risk of […]

PhysOrg blows our minds with the discovery that our skeletons are actually endocrine glands: Karsenty and his colleagues had previously shown that leptin, a hormone […]

Go outside tomorrow night and look up. Look up! Keep looking up! Trust us on this one.

From New Scientist comes a fun story about prehistoric bacteria being brought back to life by meddling scientists: Kay Bidle of Rutgers University in New […]

Moller International, a company that’s been trying to market flying cars for a long while now, has finally made its breakthrough, reports LiveScience: [I]t looks […]