The other day President Obama announced that he expects all government agencies "to purchase 100 percent alternative fuel, hybrid, or electric vehicles by 2015".
To be clear this doesn't mean that the current agency fleets will be replaced ...
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Nearly 20% of children were born to evil sluts with no sense of shame, according to a relatively sexist new study about single parenting and household demographics.
The study very pointedly mentions the role of fathers only in ...
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As we use technology more and more to study those parts of our world that we can't see with our eyes we get to see some pretty incredible things, much like this video from the European Space Agency's GOCE satellite.
The ...
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There you have it folks - our very first image of the planet Mercury courtesy of the good folks at NASA. From their post on Flickr about the image:
NASA Satellite MESSENGER Sends Back First Image of Mercury ...
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Mother Nature is really incredible and nowhere is her power more apparent than when the very earth below us erupts with massive and incredibly destructive power that can be seen with every erupting volcano.
Now some folks might ...
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back out in the yard your worst nightmare has arrived. Picnics will never be the same.
Yes folks it is the time of the zombie ant.
Okay, all kidding aside ...
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Scientists have found that having to pee super-bad actually enhances impulse control and leads to better decision making.
The relationship between bodily desires- to relieve oneself, hunger, or sexual stimulation- and impact on delay of gratification in other ...
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A study of "aggressive" social behaviors in adolescents revealed that not only is the social order in teenagers very complex, but the kids who are "almost" popular are far more likely to engage in bullying behaviors than ...
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Who knew that the folks at NASA were so cool. I mean you gotta admit the idea of taking some of the really high resolution images of Mars' surface, taken by NASA's HiRISE orbiter, combine them with ...
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A new study from Brigham Young University's School of Family Life claims that videogames can help parents and kids bond - particularly fathers and daughters.
For her study, author Sarah M. Coyne Ph.D. polled 287 kids aged between ...
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NASA scientists have once again pushed the envelop of what we previously thought possible, using the Hubble Telescope to find a new galaxy that's 13.2 billion light years away.
Technically the galaxy was first discovered in 2009, however ...
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Originally posted to reddit I found this excellent video via Geeks are Sexy and it might not be an official NASA commercial but damn, it should be. Take the three minutes needed and enjoy.
[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0[/embed]
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The BBC in England produces some of the best nature shows in the world but these two videos show that it isn't as easy as it looks, especially when the polar bears keep beating up on your ...
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Tonight, for the first time since the mid-1600s, a lunar eclipse is coinciding with the winter solstice and there's also going to be a meteor shower. (The Ursids meteor shower!)
I suppose it kind of sucks for us ...
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Wetland habitats- which, according to the BBC, are particularly vulnerable to mercury runoff from mining and industry- are apparently becoming big gay bars for aquatic birds.
Scientists in Sri Lanka and Florida sought to explain why mercury seemed ...
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See, this is what happens when you take away the Four Loko and whipahol.
Enterprising teens whose dealers haven't called them back yet are, according to several local news affiliates, taking to the spice cabinet to try to ...
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If you've got a panty-dropping weakness or can't seem to keep it in your pants, a gene variant linked with thrill-seeking behavior could be responsible for promiscuous behavior, among other things.
Researchers have interviewed a whole bunch of ...
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If there was one pivotal moment in the US space program besides the landing on the moon and the Challenger disaster it would have to be Apollo 13. After all that trip into space could very well ...
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The incredible thing about science is that it can open up worlds that we would never know existed but when combined with photography we given a window into a fascinating micro miniature world. It is images like these that ...
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We all know how tired one gets after a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner and the first thing we want to do is head for the couch. Well here is a beautiful timelapse video of the Aurora Borealis over ...
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In a fascinating study to be published in the journal Neuron researchers at the Standford University of Medicine have found that the human brain contains more switches than all the computers on Earth.
They found this by spending the last ...
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Science is a beautiful thing and when you combine that beauty with stunning animation you get "Powering the Cell: Mitochondria".
The animation is a result of a collaboration between Harvard University's BioVisions Program and science animation company XVIVO and is ...
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![[Damn Cool Dept.] Earth caught flaunting her gravity – we have the video!](http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2011/03/gravity-100x100.png)
![[Damn Cool Dept.] Awesome time lapse of Hawaiian volcano hard at work](http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2011/03/volcano-100x100.png)
![[Damn Cool Dept.] Zombie Ants. They have arrived.](http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2011/03/fungi_and_an-100x100.png)
![We humans are capable of greatness [Video]](http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2011/01/nasa1-100x100.png)
