SCIENCE

From Test Tube to Tavern: London Craft Brewery Uses DNA Testing to Create Bespoke Beer

Customers pay nearly $31,000 to create a beer that appeals to their individual flavor profile.

Charles Robert Knight via Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

Here's What a Neanderthal's Voice Might Have Sounded Like

Less grunting, more hoarse screaming.

7 Facts About Your Knees

3. You can walk without a kneecap.

Ridesharing Apps Could Easily Replace Taxis in New York City

A new study shows that it wouldn’t be hard for companies like Uber or Lyft to take over taxi rides with carpooling services.

NASA Wants to Make a Mobile Water Factory on the Moon

The goal is to harness and use available resources on other worlds.

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Pollution Can Give You High Blood Pressure

Prolonged exposure to dirty air can lead to an increased risk of hypertension.

10 Mysterious Facts About the Pineal Gland

Descartes once described the pineal gland as “the principal seat of the soul."

Why Do Rockets Need So Much Fuel If, In Space, There Is Nothing to Slow Them Down?

Rockets are conventionally built to have multiple stages.

The Overlooked Paleontologist Who May Have Inspired 'She Sells Sea Shells'

Though Anning didn't receive her due credit from the male naturalists who reaped the benefits of her labors, word of the fossil-hunter's many achievements still managed to spread far and wide during her lifetime.

A Group of Suitcase-Sized Satellites Will Transform Hurricane Tracking

CYGNSS "will improve our knowledge of how hurricanes grow so that we can better prepare and protect people in the path of each hurricane as it comes."

Tardigrade: Bob Goldstein and Vicky Madden, UNC Chapel Hill // Public Domain / Hearts: Public Domain

Tardigrade Sex Does Not Disappoint

It’s gross. It’s tender. It’s … lengthy.

Sea Star: University of Southern Denmark / Speech Bubble: Amada44 via Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

Stubborn Sea Stars Thwart Student Scientists by Expelling Microchip Implants

Tracking tags implanted in the sea stars were found lying beside the animals days later.

9 Archaeological Sites of Biblical Importance

Archaeology might raise more questions about the bible than it answers, but that doesn’t stop millions of religious tourists from flocking to the Holy Land every year to walk in the footsteps of figures like Jesus and Moses.