Without a doubt, the vast majority of people will engage in masturbation over the course of their lifetimes. May, even, is National Masturbation Month. Yet self-pleasure still remains a divisive issue, as it has for some time, and moreover, the question of its role forms the basis for much of the cultural divide in our [...]

It might surprise you to hear that the Slurpee was an accident. Yet the beloved concoction, as a matter of fact, got its start when a Dairy Queen soda machine kept on malfunctioning. Its operator, Omar Knedlik of Kansas City, placed bottles of soda in his freezer as a failsafe. The bottles came out a [...]

The human body is one of the most fascinating and puzzling ecosystems in the universe, a complex community of cells, germs and microbes that is still being mapped and decoded. Recent discoveries in this field have caused scientists to reevaluate the way we look at our internal functions, and perhaps we aren’t as much ourselves [...]

The all-seeing eye of Google has revealed itself yet again, this time in the form of a series of animated timelapses that show how the earth has changed over the past 25 years. Google partnered with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to collect over 900 terabytes of data from USGS’s Landsat satellite and compile [...]

Last year, MIT physicist Frank Wilczek had a crazy idea. The Nobel Prize-winning (2004) professor has had crazy—almost impossible—ideas before, but this one fundamentally challenged one of the hard and fast rules of physics: perpetual motion is not allowed. What he developed was a proof for “time crystals.” Now my notion of the structures is [...]