Science

A Swiss scientist in the late 1940s begun testing spiders on drugs to determine how various chemicals affected a spider’s ability to spin a web. Now NASA continues the research.

A fear of large objects such as statues, boats, planes, and elephants, megalophobia is an anxiety disorder that can be treated with counselling and therapy.

Thalassophobia is different than aquaphobia, which is simply a fear of water. Those who suffer from thalassophobia fear large bodies of water that are dark and deep, where what lays beneath is unknown.

Fried food connoisseur and culinary chef Jonathan Marcus found a way to make deep fried water but admits that it’s “the blandest deep-fried thing” he’s ever tasted.

If your hair turned white or gray almost overnight, you may have Marie Antoinette Syndrome

The number of elephants in the wild has dropped by a third in the last decade. Despite recent reductions in poaching there are still estimated to be 20,000 elephants killed each year. Could a new strain of elephant-mammoth hybrid help save the species?

The days of Spidertman could be numbered as a team of scientists have invented toughened web silk as strong as kevlar and capable of holding a human.

MIT boffins have decreed that second born boys are 20-40% more likely to cause trouble in school, and end up in jail than first born sons.

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Tangible Media Group have decided that we all deserve something a bit different at dinner time. Pushing the boundaries … Read more