Science

Crowdfunding is all the rage these days, with as recently as last week the much anticipated Veronica Mars movie hitting theaters after being funded almost entirely by fans eager to pitch in. But while sites like Kickstarter can be great for passion projects like that film, the people looking for funds are often doing absolutely incredible things. There are some truly amazing inventions and innovat

From counting out the exact change for a coffee cup to planning a retirement fund, numbers influence almost every aspect of one’s life. However, numbers have

It's been a joke for as long as we've had those ridiculous drug ads of people frolicking in a field while an announcer motormouths his way through all the legal

A wise man once said that science is like the blabbermouth who ruins the ending to a movie. Science just has a way of ruining things: dreams of flying cars, religious dogma and even our beloved cinematic aliens…

There's always people with a desire to be the first to discover something. For some, there's also a desire to trick a whole bunch of people into believing wacky

There are a number of strange phobias and obsessive disorders than can affect people, and then there are those that made this list. Through years of intense

Weather instruments are cool tools that you should have at your workplace or home. Quantifying the different weather patterns tends...

Everything has to start somewhere. And when it comes to technology, that somewhere often so humble you have to wonder why we even stuck with them.

Science fiction books and movies offer an infinite realm of seemingly awesome possibilities. All it takes is the right genius at the right time (and the right

Within the field of portable electronics, no company has done a better job of making the world a brighter place than Apple. From the iPod, which revolutionised