Full moon names were bestowed by the Native Americans of what is now the northern and eastern United States. A few hundred years ago, those tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full moon. picked by dollyllama 4 months ago

w00t!
*ahem*
I mean... police involved with the investigation say at least one of the young men was intoxicated AND standing on the rail on the enclosure. picked by Rowangrey 4 months ago

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a stunning rare case of a triple merger of galaxies. This system, which astronomers have dubbed 'The Bird' - albeit it also bears resemblance with a cosmic Tinker Bell - is composed of two massive spiral galaxies and a third irregular galaxy. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

In a study of married men and women, the majority of wives - 59 per cent - said they would divorce immediately if their future economic security was assured. picked by Lilo 4 months ago

A study of four-year-old twin girls has identified a rogue cell that is the root cause of childhood leukaemia. picked by keroberos32 4 months ago

Yes, you read it right. picked by Stadsman 4 months ago

Quite an amazing video showing how a dolphin creates bubble rings and is playing with them. Very endearing but also a bit sad as he is still in a basin. Also it's hard to resist to attribute human emotions to this beautiful animal... picked by Stadsman 4 months ago

A federal agency recommended killing about 30 sea lions a year at a Columbia River dam where the marine animals feast on salmon migrating upriver to spawn. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

What you thought was a berry, may in fact be an infested ant's ass. picked by MandolinOrange 4 months ago

It’s the first documented demonstration that ordinary cells from an adult human can be used to make cloned embryos mature enough to produce stem cells. picked by MandolinOrange 4 months ago

This video gives a fascinating look at what a huge ant colony look like underground. 10 tons of cement was poured into the colony and after solidification, the soil was excavated. Digging starts at around 4:10 min.
Amazing, but I actually feel bad for the ants. picked by wildminou 4 months ago

Human beings will be having sex with robots one day. They will show us sexual practices that we hadn't even imagined existed. We will love them and respect them, and we will entrust them with our most intimate secrets. picked by suckersklub 4 months ago

A new map reveals dense pools of invisible matter tipping the scales at 10 trillion times the mass of the sun and housing a cosmic city of ancient galaxies. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

A new species of palm tree which flowers spectacularly once in its long life and then dies has been discovered in Madagascar. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Within five to seven years fast growing trees and grasses might become economically viable alternatives to corn as a source of renewable fuel ethanol, reducing the need for pollutants that now cause a massive "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

With its thin atmosphere and scant moisture, Mars is often largely cloud-free. But new observations reveal clouds of dry ice thick enough to cast significant shadows on the red planet. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

The headquarters state of America's oil industry spewed 670 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2003, enough that Texas would rank seventh in the world if it were its own country, according to the most recent figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. picked by dollyllama 4 months ago

It sounds like a freakish ailment from a horror movie: Sores erupt on your skin, mysterious threads pop out of them, and you feel like tiny bugs are crawling all over you. picked by dollyllama 4 months ago

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, ch... read full post picked by wags273 4 months ago

Test your sensitivity to disgust and take part in a real science experiment. It has 20 questions and should take between 5-10 minutes. It was developed by Dr Val Curtis of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. picked by misswinkle 4 months ago

A new study finds that bisexuality in women appears to be a distinctive sexual orientation and not an experimental or transitional stage that some women adopt "on their way" to lesbianism. picked by DemureArt 4 months ago

Modern medicine ranks as one of the greatest achievements of mankind. But there are drawbacks in the form of side effects, some of which are far more off-putting than the inability to operate heavy machinery. picked by DemureArt 4 months ago

Although men and women are pretty much on a par when it comes to IQ - despite many men believing they are substantially more intelligent than women - there are very real differences between the two sexes when it comes to how they think. picked by maxriter 4 months ago

Fossil hunters have uncovered the greatest rodent that ever lived -- a one-tonne behemoth that bestrode the swamplands of South America some four million years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Bad news for Coco and Blinko – British children don't like clowns and even older kids are scared of them. The news that will no doubt have clowns shedding tears was revealed in a poll of youngsters by researchers from the University of Sheffield who examined how to improve the decor of children's wards in hospitals. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago