NASA is investigating how to use Kevlar to soften helicopter crashes. If you consider that, since 2001, the accident rate for civilian helicopter use per 100.000 flight hours has been 40% higher than for general aviation fixed wing aircraft (1), then I...

I don't know about you, but they just destroyed a bit of my fascination for ancient Egypt...

Turns out that 18% of the 3000 mummies discovered so far presented signs of really bad dental problems which, in retrospective, is something that one would...

I previously mentioned how dumb it was for someone to have to wait 10 minutes to be able to post a comment on a different thread on Reddit, but this latest discovery is just delicious.

Just tried to post a comment on a post where the submitter...

For those who happen to have a blog (and who doesn't these days?) you are probably aware of intensedebate. It's basically a system of threaded comments that you can plug into your site and take advantage of... well, now that I look back after...