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Michael Levin
Engineering

This scientist re-wires frogs to grow extra limbs. Could it work in humans?

The body electrician

Here’s how to wrap a spherical gift, according to scientists
Life Skills

Here’s how to wrap a spherical gift, according to scientists

What candy can teach us about wrapping perfectly round objects

For this deep-sea archaeologist, finding the Titanic at the bottom of the sea was just the start
Ocean

For this deep-sea archaeologist, finding the Titanic at the bottom of the sea was just the start

Now Robert Ballard hopes to find evidence of humans who migrated into North America.

Charting the volcanic eruptions that are pushing our world apart
Ocean

Charting the volcanic eruptions that are pushing our world apart

At the bottom of the sea, Colin Devey studies how our continents move away (and toward) each other.

Breaking the glass ceiling on the ocean floor
Ocean

Breaking the glass ceiling on the ocean floor

Cindy Lee Van Dover was the first woman to pilot the Alvin submarine, and that was only the beginning.

This geophysicist uses rock-sniffing subs to understand polar magnetic flips
Ocean

This geophysicist uses rock-sniffing subs to understand polar magnetic flips

She helped figure out that, during the Jurassic era, Earth’s magnetic field flipped many times.

Looking for aliens in the Arctic
Ocean

Looking for aliens in the Arctic

Searching for the origins of life in the deep sea.

Sylvia Earle
Ocean

At 81, this record-breaking diver isn’t done exploring the ocean’s depths

“As long as I’m breathing,” Sylvia Earle says, “I’ll be diving.”

F-35As In Flight
Aviation

You can’t replace the F-35 with an F-18 any more than you can replace an aircraft carrier with a cruise ship

An F-18 cannot do everything an F-35 can do, unless stealth doesn't matter.

Don’t hate on deep-sea critters. They’ve got to be weird to survive.
Fish

Don’t hate on deep-sea critters. They’ve got to be weird to survive.

You'd look pretty ugly too if you lived at the bottom of the sea

Egyptian Fruit Bats
Bats

Now we know what an angry, hungry bat sounds like

Scientists decoded some inter-bat communication

The hibernation science in ‘Passengers’ is not far from reality
Mars

The hibernation science in ‘Passengers’ is not far from reality

Suspended animation may help us survive interplanetary travel, but it won't keep us alive for 120 years

We’ve been grinding up plants to eat for over 10,000 years
Archaeology

We’ve been grinding up plants to eat for over 10,000 years

Early humans loved them some leaves

The most surprising places where it (sometimes) snows
Weather

The most surprising places where it (sometimes) snows

And the pics to prove it

Solar oven
Projects

How to build a DIY solar oven

You can cook a meal even if all you have is the sun

Cheetah
Animals

#Bestspots is the adorable Twitter feud we need to get through 2016

Scientists are throwing down the spotted gauntlet

skyline of shenzhen, china
Technology

The Best Burger in Shenzhen

The city is known for its world-building factories. Now it's cultivating something else entirely: a global community with an experimental spirit.

rat
Animals

Tickle experiments reveal what a happy rat looks like

It's all in the ears

The adorable ‘Casper’ octopod could be killed off by deep-sea mining
Animals

The adorable ‘Casper’ octopod could be killed off by deep-sea mining

Scientists only recently discovered the precious critter

Airbus Transpose Concept
Technology

New Airbus concept makes airliner interiors quickly customizable

A window to a windowless future.