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Newly discovered fish species, Solenostomus snuffleupagus, looks just like Big Bird's best friend and was named after the big fuzzy character.

On Hallucinate, you can drop into a massive, free online rave as a customizable avatar you can dress up and style. The site's pixelated aesthetic gives the whole experience a ...

John Rooney's The Birds of Palestine is a beautiful collage of avian species residing there. It's available as a print from his Etsy store (and from Shop Palestine, though the ...

On her blog, game writer Laura Michet describes what happened when her insulin pump, a Tandem t:slim X2, started failing once or twice a day in the middle of a ...

A study in the journal Science argues that homing pigeons may read Earth's magnetic field using iron-rich cells in their livers, rather than their beaks or eyes. Researchers wiped out ...

In his talk "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People," Maciej Cegowski takes apart the fear that a self-improving AI will bootstrap itself into a god and wipe out humanity ...

Quanta's "The Dirt That Refused To Die" follows a French lab that sterilized soil with gamma radiation, sealed it in jars, and watched it keep breathing -- taking in oxygen ...

Over the long weekend, a storage tank of methyl methacrylate in Garden Grove, California, started to warm up -- and as the chemist Derek Lowe lays out in a post ...

Watch a caterpillar go down a tiny slide. This adorable playset was gifted to the lucky little larva by an artist who runs a page called Little Bug Creations, and ...

America's love of giant roadside attractions has produced many strange sights, but few are as fierce as Betsy, a colossal spiny lobster in Islamorada, Florida. You can see Betsy in ...