The absurdity of teaching people to use passwords that are hard for humans to use but easy for computers to guess was beautifully captured in the much-loved web comic by Randall Munroe of Xkcd.
The first maps to track the global expansion of HIV over the past 50 years paint a fascinating picture of how the spread of the virus mirrored human migration and trade routes.
The smiles we turn on for the camera today are roughly 10 times more "intense" than the smiles photographed 100 years ago.
More sex during South Africa's World Cup meant a disproportionately high number of boys were born nine months later, a new study has found.
A fascinating interactive map shows how different countries really compare in size – a problem that has for centuries stumped cartographers trying to show the spherical Earth on a flat piece of paper.
It's one of the most agonising (first world) problems confronting social media users today: Which photo filter should I use? Thankfully, science now has the answer.
With so much data at our fingertips, are we any closer to finding an algorithm for love?
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