A beautiful collection of atmospheric phenomenon photographed from above.

A very nifty movie showcasing some brilliant magnetic field visualizations. Watch it!

A clearly written exploration of the science behind newly passed British legislation allowing for the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos (under specific conditions).

Quoted: Birth, life, death and extinction: an evolutionary biologist's guide to natural selection.

Any idea why 60,000 Pacific sturgeon would be hanging out together in a giant ball-like mass beneath the waters near Bonneville Dam? Me neither...

Mark Changizi argues that our visual perception has evolved to anticipate the future. While the actual news isn't as sexy as it sounds, it's still really intriguing stuff.

Quoted: “Evolution has seen to it that geometric drawings like this elicit in us premonitions of the near future,” says Changizi. “The converging lines toward a vanishing point are cues that trick our brains into thinking we are moving forward—as we would in the real world, where the door frame seems to bow out as we move through it—and we try to perceive what that world will look like in the next instant.”

An interesting paper comparing representations of male and female super heroes from the Marvel Universe vs. their average male and female counterparts in the everyday world. There is much less diversity in female representation and a larger deviation from the average. Shocker.

This race looks unlike any other I have seen. Dirty and nasty. 8 miles of challenging obstacles.

Quoted: The 'Tough Guy Challenge', in Perton, UK, is a biannual race over a course of eight miles. Its 21 obstacles include fire, tunnels, barbed wire, slides and swamps. Thousands of normal citizens compete.

This guy's origami is insane. He uses custom software, combined with Mathematica to generate the designs and patterns.

Quoted: This site contains galleries of photographs and articles about original origami designs by Robert J. Lang. Origami is the modern reincarnation of the ancient Japanese art of paper-folding. The site contains links to books and origami instruction and articles about the connections between origami, mathematics, and engineering, including several of Robert's own origami-engineering projects.