Serendipity

Week 48, 2014

What it feels like for a sperm, or how to get around when you are really, really small

The World's Deadliest Distinction: Why aren't the oldest living people getting any older?

Hidden beneath Europa's icy surface is perhaps the most promising place in our solar system beyond Earth to look for environments that are suitable for life

How Kepler nearly explained the structure of snowflakes thinking about atoms in an essay he wrote as a New Year's gift

The Strange World of Computer-Generated Novels: Welcome to National Novel Generation Month, where the algorithm is the author

The Beginning of the End for Bananas? It seems that the fungal pathogens are going to wipe them out

Week 47, 2014

Nature's Guide to Immortality: Aging Apes, Ancient Clams and a Jellyfish that Never Dies

Pass Me the Gene Gun: Biolistic a Technique that Physically Fires DNA into Cells

Using Machine Learning Techniques, Computers can Now Look at Paintings and Predict What the Full Scenery Might have Looked Like

The Mystery of the Number Stations: A Voice Reciting an Endless Stream of Numbers, All Day, Everyday

Leonardo’s Brain: What a Posthumous Brain Scan Six Centuries Later Reveals about the Source of Da Vinci’s Creativity

What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain: It's One Seriously Misunderstood Substance

Week 46, 2014

Why Thousands of People are Willing to Die on Mars

A Handy Guide to Longer Living Through Science!

What has 9,000 Years of Breeding Done to Watermelon, Corn, Peaches, and Other Crops

Helminths: Parasitic Worm Infects One-Third of the World’s Population

The Sun and the Moon have the same apparent size in our skies and this may have been key to life leaving the seas

Watch how ESA’s Rosetta becomes the first spaceship to land on a comet!