The internet is populated with amateur scientists who test the limits of what you can put in a blender, what happens when you mix Diet Coke and Mentos and now, what a cinderblock does to a running washing machine.
A shoe insert that harnesses the power of each step and can be used to charge cell phones is in development.
12 years after losing her fingers as a result of sepsis brought on by chicken pox, 15-year-old Chloe Holmes has become the youngest person in Europe (and the first outside of America) to be fitted with bionic fingers.
Astronomers from the University of California, Santa Cruz have uncovered evidence suggesting that two moons once orbited Earth.
For most of us down here on earth, June 7th was a fairly typical day. If you happened to be on the sun, on the other hand, you would have been treated to one of the most massive solar explosions man has ever seen. It may not look all that big in the video -- the footage was captured on an ultraviolet camera by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory -- but remember, this is the sun we're looking at here. It's more than 100 times larger than the Earth.