Neuroscientists have implanted false memories into the brains of sleeping mice, creating artificial associative memories that persisted while the animals slept and influenced their behavior upon waking. The results, the latest to spring from this burgeoning field of neuroscience, appear this week in Nature Neuroscience
More Americans Get Food Poisoning From Fruits And Veggies Than From Meat
Are you doing the environmentally responsible thing and trying to eat more produce and less meat? Hey, good on you! Pat yourself on the back. Now brace yourself for some bad news.
This Video Will Save You From Wasting So Much Time Arguing Online
If you're familiar with the original definition of "meme," you know that ideas can spread and mutate. But what makes memes spread faster? Anger. Here's a video that explores how "angry thought germs" can spread, and reinforce opposing viewpoints.
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission turns six years old today. The space telescope was launched the night of March 6, 2009 from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The $600-million dollar mission has since become one of the most prolific – and cost-effective – scientific missions in history.
This Time-Lapse Was Made For People Who Think Time-Lapses Are Boring
Do time-lapse videos put you to sleep? This creatively edited footage of Austria's various natural and cultural attractions is something you might actually enjoy.
How Many Of These Statements Are True?
This week's puzzle poses an apparent paradox. Given ten self-referential statements, your task is to determine which of statements are true, and which are false.
The characters on House of Cards have terrible sleep hygiene. "I've been pretty appalled by the Underwoods' poor sleep habits," notes science writer Jordan Gaines Lewis on her blog. In observation of Sleep Awareness Week, she lists three simple sleep hygiene rules that Frank and Claire would be wise to follow.
Take A Moment To Marvel At These Unusually Intimate Owl Portraits
It is notoriously difficult to photograph an owl. The stately birds tend to be close-taloned with their trust, requiring several months to become comfortable with even one human handler – a fact that explains both the rareness of intimate owl portraiture, and the magnificence of these shots by photographer Brad Wilson.
10 Gemstones Much Rarer Than Diamond
Many people know that diamond is actually pretty common when it comes to gemstones (you can find millions of them in your typical candle flame), but who among us can actually name any that are rarer? Here, we present to you a collection of ten of the rarest gemstones on Earth.
A Map Of The First Proposed U.S. Highway Network
Looking for good schools, good health, good morals, and good times? Well, then you'd need to find good roads first, according to the National Highway Association. Which is why the NHA drew up the first proposed highway plan in 1913.
New NASA Findings Suggest Mars Was Once Home To A Giant Ocean
A vast, ancient ocean reaching depths of more than one mile may have once occupied close to half of Mars' northern hemisphere, NASA scientists reported today.
Here, Have Some Adorable Animal Humor
Rays and skates are members of a superorder of fishes called Batoidia (they're also in the subclass Elasmonbranchii, to which sharks also belong). Batoids are super weird. You should read about them. But for the purposes of this comic, what you need to know is that batoid undersides look like funny little faces.
You Can Play This Music For Your Cat (And Your Cat May Actually Like It)
Cats seem pretty apathetic about a lot of things. You might think music is one of them. But according to a new study, it's not that cats don't care about music – it's that they don't care about YOUR music. So what kind of music do cats appreciate? We're so glad you asked.
Researchers have cross-referenced a 3D model of Sophie, the world's most complete stegosaurus specimen, with data on the masses of living animals to calculate that the animal weighed approximately 1,600 kg (3527 pounds, about the weight of a small rhino) in life. Their findings are published today in Biology Letters.