Potential new guidelines concerning controversial fracking technique would allow companies to keep some methods shrouded in secrecy.
— NY Times

A look at what may be in store for the human race in the distant future.
— io9.com

Skeptic Sharon Hill laments the world wide web's tendency to spread paranormal falsehoods.
— Huffington Post

Breathtaking images showcase a decrepit and massive, 1,140 foot tall TV tower.
— English Russia

Orb-like objects in Argentina appear to be tracking and pestering drivers.
— Inexplicata

The first humans to live on Mars might not identify as astronauts, but farmers.
— Space.com

Since 2011, many geologists have noticed almost a 1000% increase in soil liquefaction.
— Earthfiles

Over the last four years, the extraordinary Kepler space telescope has found and characterized planets around other stars.
— Wired

Human cloning has been used to produce early embryos, marking a "significant step" for medicine, say US scientists.
— BBC News

Evolution shaped genes in humans and dogs that correspond to diet, behavior, and disease, according to a new study.
— National Geographic News

Nestled behind a waterfall in western New York state is an eternal flame whose beauty is only surpassed by its mystery.
— OurAmazingPlanet

Astrophotographer Reinhold Wittich snapped a photo of the Pleiades star cluster from his backyard observatory in Geisling, Germany.
— Space.com

A new study finds that an illusion that makes people feel that a rubber hand is their own can make white people less unconsciously biased against people with dark skin.
— LiveScience

Something very strange started oozing out of the streets in the Chinese city of Nanjing on Saturday night.
— Who Forted?

Henry Markram has proposed a project that has bedeviled AI researchers for decades, that most had presumed was impossible.
— Wired Magazine

The planet, officially known as Kepler-76b, is 25 percent larger than Jupiter and weighs about twice as much.
— Space.com

A huge solar flare erupted from the surface of the sun late Sunday, followed by an even more powerful blast less than 24 hours later.
— LiveScience

Officials prepare evacuation routes and shelters for thousands of people.
— LA Times

Prestigious Harvard psychiatrist, John Edward Mack, thought so. His sudden death leaves behind many mysteries.
— Vanity Fair

The World Health Organization has had a busy couple of weeks keeping track of three deadly strains across the world, and world travelers have probably been equally overcome with fear.
— The Atlantic Wire

By putting the compound through an especially rigorous experiment on lab mice, they've shown just how promising it is.
— KPBS.org

Canadian police in Vernon, British Columbia, are investigating what is possibly the first ever flying car accident.
— MSN Now

So-called junk DNA, the vast majority of the genome that doesn't code for proteins, really isn't needed for a healthy organism, according to new research.
— LiveScience

A majority of Americans still suspect there was a conspiracy behind JFK's assassination, but the percentage who believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone is at its highest level since the mid-1960s.
— Associated Press

Treasure trove finally revealed after owner locked up and fled at outbreak of WWII.
— Mail Online

Two more people in Saudi Arabia are reported to have died from the virus, according to health officials.
— BBC News

The immigration reform measure in the Senate would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S.
— Wired

Lockheed Martin's ADAM system uses 10-kilowatt laser that can be fired at a target up to 1.2 miles away.
— Discovery News

Medieval churches and port buildings still visible off the English coastline.
— LiveScience

An ambitious project to establish a human colony on Mars has attracted applications from tens of thousands of would-be astronauts
— TIME