Girls swept a prestigious high school science competition for the first time Monday, winning top prizes of $100,000 scholarships for their work on potential tuberculosis cures and bone growth in zebrafish.
It was the first time girls had ever won the grand prizes in both the team and individual divisions of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. picked by marli 2 years ago

People typically react very strongly to one death but their emotions fade as the number of victims increase picked by jameseum 3 years ago

Pope Benedict, elaborating his views on evolution for the first time as Pontiff, says science has narrowed the way life's origins are understood and Christians should take a broader approach to the question. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

It's your fault I have to kill you! picked by Bornbad 11 months ago

If you don't worship Star Trek, then you must worship the Force. But maybe you're a vampire adept, or a member of the Batman congregation? Fans' faith in their franchises gets as intense and bloody as zealots' faith in religion. picked by Bornbad 4 months ago

ALI G, played by Sacha Baron Cohen (AKA Borat), talks about things with serious people such as Kent Hovind. Also here is a great interview with Posh and Becks: picked by spocksmyhomeboy 3 years ago

Scientists have accused the Pope of distorting science, based on his earlier remarks about condom use.

Follow-up to this by cactushair. picked by Ankabout 8 months ago

Soylent Green is people! picked by Bornbad 12 months ago

offering more than 2,000,000 words of fiction as well as reviews, interviews and more.

If you like to read, you need to see this site. picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

If sexual orientation is biological, are the traits that make people seem gay innate, too? The new research on everything from voice pitch to hair whorl. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago

Snowflakes are actually rather complicated, and in this article you can learn how the form, and how the old saying, "No two Flakes are alike" isnt true.

Pretty good read, especially seeing how wonderfully snowy its been around here lately. picked by Muppetmaker 2 years ago

Obama has pledged over the lengthy presidential campaign, to see what his administration will mean for science and technology.
He promised to lead a new era of scientific innovation in America and to restore integrity to US science policy. This would be achieved by doubling the federal investment in basic research and by addressing the "grand challenges" of the 21st century, he said picked by bingo 1 year ago

Of course no one will claim that scientists are never wrong about things. Some of the past theories that proved incorrect are familiar, some not. Some mistakes, though, actually led to significant scientific advances. Here's a list of 10 significant mistakes scientists have made in history picked by sidran32 4 months ago

First Place, Photography: "The Glass Forest"
Tiny green diatoms create the illusion of a fernlike forest as they attach to their marine-invertebrate hosts.
more at link picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

Dust off those tricorders, go to warp now and enter the 1st Annual Genre Traveler Photo Contest!

image courtesy of Worth1000 picked by suebe 3 years ago

An elephant on LSD, a scientist's attempt to revive the dead by putting them on seesaws to get their blood flowing, and what turns a turkey on. picked by snood 2 years ago

When Chad Pugh was commissioned to do a redesign of an illustration for Vimeo login, he decided to take a screenshot every five seconds. Here’s a mesmerizing time lapse video of a process spanning 40 hours of drawing condensed into under 7 minutes. picked by TheJehosephat 2 years ago

Underneath their sober lab coats and flannel shirts, scientists hide images of their scientific passions. Here they are revealed to all. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

It was a good year for Wired Science, and we have our readers to thank for that. So, for the dual purposes of thanking you and patting ourselves on the back, here is a list of our most read stories of 2008 (and a couple we think should have been). picked by cactushair 11 months ago

How Prozac sent the science of depression in the wrong direction. picked by deEPCHIll 1 year ago