So you want to build the Enterprise. Don't we all! Well good news: according to some quick, messy, napkin math, it's possible. Kind of. The bad news? It's going to be stupid expensive.
As suicide rates climb steeply in the US a growing number of psychiatrists are arguing that suicidal behaviour should be considered as a disease in its own right, rather than as a behaviour resulting from a mood disorder.
A catalog of 49 drinks culled from great works of film and literature, depicting everything from Philip Marlowe's Gin Gimlet to Fredo Corleone's Banana Daiquiri to the simple yet effective Buttermaker Boilermaker.
The King has "instructed" that Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's fast-growing capital city, build its new six-line Metro system in just four years. To compare: it took New York's MTA four years to renovate one station.
What if movies had been released with their working titles?
Every great novel—or at least every finished novel—needs a plan.
Here is a 3D printed doll, cloned from a real human’s head, that you can never unsee.
A man was arrested at the Cannes film festival on Friday after firing a starting pistol during a live TV broadcast on the palm-lined waterfront, sending actors Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil running for cover.
A career in the National Football League creates echoes good and bad. Some reverberate in medical records, others in luxuries from rich contracts. But the most vivid ones for many former players come when they get out of bed each day and put their feet on the floor. If the NFL confers wealth, it exacts a heavy price: lifelong hurt.
New research suggests one reason for the popularity of pot may be that it helps people cope with the pain of loneliness.
In another twenty years, maybe sooner, you won't be signing anything by hand, ever. And that’s not a bad thing, because the act of name signing has, in many ways, veered into the realm of absurdity and farce.
Of all the projects, instruments, and telescopes now operating or soon to debut, not one is capable of delivering what the search for extrasolar life most requires: The atmospheric spectra of any potentially habitable planets around a representative sample of the Sun’s neighboring stars.
Even President Obama’s use of umbrellas has become a scandal in the eyes of some Republicans.
J.J. Abrams always says he's never been a Trekkie, but, according to a new report, it was Abrams' inability to fully control the "Star Trek" franchise—and wipe out merchandise connected with the original 1960s series—that may have been an impetus to switch franchises in favor of "Star Wars."
Tobias Fünke, the analrapist-turned-out-of-work-actor, famously suffers—along with dozens of others—from the syndrome known as "Never Nude" in which he has a crippling fear of being naked. There really are people in the world who are pathologically afraid of nudity—they suffer from gymnophobia.
NASA has just released this cute chart depicting the various distances traveled by wheeled machines on other worlds.
A cigarette smuggling scheme that cost New York state millions of dollars in sales tax revenue may have raised funds for militant groups, authorities said.
In a word? Algorithms.
After a three-year delay, the new high-tech $100 bill enters circulation this fall. Here’s how it’s designed to beat the counterfeiters.
Many people forget the very earnest and expensive investment in driverless cars. That investment was the multi-million dollar push by the U.S. Congress to build an automated highway system in the 1990s.
That groundbreaking clinical trial in the New York Times? It's my study -- and I'm 15 months clean.
And why the academic study of porn is nothing new.
US Marine Corps lance corporal Adam McCann is one of four post-9/11 American war veterans featured in the new film as the "Starfleet Ceremonial Guard."
For being the go-to summertime treat, it’s a little odd to think about how very little we know about ice cream. Like, how much exercise does it take to burn off a single bowl of a bacon sundae? Or when exactly does “ice cream” stop being “ice cream” and become a “frozen dairy dessert”?
Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco reportedly featured women dressed not just as sexy nuns and nurses but also as President Barack Obama.
Takeout pizza and a DVD are a natural fit. So Domino's Pizza in Brazil decided to combine the two in an ad campaign.
“Here is a fine new word,” wrote an Iowa sports columnist in 1911. Back then, the slang term “motorcade” — a riff on “cavalcade” — described any kind of derring-do by a team of drivers.
The shocking video of a Syrian rebel eating the lung of a pro-Assad fighter spread like wildfire across the Internet earlier this week. The rebel, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Sakkar, has filmed a Youtube video explaining his actions.
Photo hub ShutterStock imagines modern businesses that might be embodied by the seven houses of Westeros depicted in “Game of Thrones”.
A highly speculative search for the fastest ship in science fiction.
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