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The Most Advanced Artificial Intelligence In Existence Is Only As Smart As A...

One of the most advanced artificial intelligence systems is about as smart as preschooler, new research suggests. But your preschooler may have better common sense.An artificial intelligence (AI)...

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72 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Tail Found In Mexican Desert

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A team of archaeologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a 72 million-year-old dinosaur tail in a desert in northern Mexico, the country's National Institute for...

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A Massive Asteroid Flies By Earth Tonight — Here's How To Watch It Live

A newfound asteroid about the size of a football field will cruise past Earth tonight (July 22), and you can follow all the action live online.The near-Earth asteroid 2013 NE19, estimated to be between...

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This Wetsuit Makes You Invisible To Sharks

The coast of Western Australia has been particularly dangerous place for shark attacks recent years, earning it the distinction of becoming "shark attack capital of the world."Between October 2011 and...

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Alcohol-Related Deaths Are A Looming Epidemic Among Young Women

Researchers claim the number of women aged 34 and under who are dying from alcohol related conditions such as liver disease has more than doubled since the 1980s.They warn that in the past decade,...

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Red Wine Antioxidant Actually Seems To Undo The Effects Of Exercise

PROBLEM: In today's issue of The Journal of Physiology, researchers led by Dr. Lasse Gliemann at the University of Copenhagen report a needling wrinkle in our antioxidant love story.When some plants...

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Could A Human Beat A T-Rex At Arm Wrestling?

"First, we're assuming that the T. rex won't just eat the person, right?" asks Jack Conrad, a vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Right. This is a...

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It's Not Uncommon For Boys To Inhale Blowgun Darts

A 15-year-old boy in Ohio required a visit to the emergency room after he inhaled a dart from a homemade blowgun, according to a new report of his case.The dart lodged in the boy's airway after he...

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Here's The Incestuous Last-Ditch Effort A Zoo Is Using To Save The Sumatran...

Sometimes you just get desperate. In a last-ditch effort to help save the Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) from extinction, the Cincinnati Zoo has gathered together the last two members of the...

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To Win A Sports Bet, Don't Over Think It

It's summertime.For Americans, that means baseball season and all the simple pleasures that the game affords — from peanuts and Cracker Jack to the seventh inning stretch and renditions of "Take Me Out...

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New Tropical Virus That Sickened Farmers In 2009 Is Spread By Ticks

The Heartland virus, a mysterious virus first identified last year in two Missouri farmers, is indeed transmitted to people by ticks, new research suggests.The findings, published today (July 22) in...

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Study Reveals That Every Dolphin Has A Unique Whistled Name

Dolphins call to each other using distinctive whistles that serve as names, new research suggests.Each dolphin makes its own unique whistle, and close friends or family will reply with the same...

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Coffin Found At Richard III's Grave Site Will Be Opened Soon

Archaeologists are set to lift the lid on a stone coffin discovered at the site of the English friary where Richard III's remains were found.Excavators suspect the tomb — billed as the only intact...

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What Manhattan Would Look Like If Hit By A Nuclear Bomb

The latest nuclear-explosion modeling program includes eye-level views from hypothetical ground zeros.The Cold War might be over, but that hasn't made the threat of a nuclear blast any less upsetting....

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A Woman Ate A 1-Pound Box Of Baking Soda Every Day

A woman who devoured a 1-pound box of baking soda a day — before and during her pregnancy — developed serious muscle and heart conditions, according to a report of her case.But it took doctors a week...

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61 Tons Of Silver Recovered From A WWII Shipwreck On The Bottom Of The Sea

Setting a new record for the deepest and largest metal recovery from a shipwreck, treasure hunters aboard the Odyssey Marine Exploration have brought 61 tons of silver bullion to the surface.Delving...

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Organisms Left The Oceans Lot Earlier Than We Thought

South African fossils push the rise of oxygen and life on land to hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought.Researchers at the University of Oregon have recently unearthed fossils...

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The 'Comet Of The Century' Is Ready To Put On A Spectacular Show

A comet that could put on a dazzling show when it zooms through the inner solar system later this year is already blasting out huge amounts of gas and dust, new observations by a NASA spacecraft...

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The North Pole Has Turned Into A Lake — Again

In what has now become an annual occurrence, the North Pole's ice has melted, turning the Earth's most northern point into a lake.Call it Lake North Pole.To be clear, the water surrounding the pole is...

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Mapping The World's Meteorite Strikes Reveals That Virtually Nowhere On Earth...

More meteorites have crashed into Earth than you expect, probably.This interactive infographic, from designer Sebastian Sadowski, charts 100 years of meteorites, mapping them by where they fell and...

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