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A map showing each state's most unique favorite food Foursquare tracked people’s tastes across America to come up with a very interesting way to determine the uniqueness of taste: they mined their user data to figure out which food or drink was disproportionately popular in each state. So...

Saving Coral Reefs With... Electrified Rocks? Biorocks might be the prettiest forms of environmental remediation you’ll ever see. Part art, part science, these artificial structures are slowly helping coral recover from environmental devastation. The BBC recently profiled Gili Trawangan, a...

My Norge sister summed it up well. It's not that the justice system is less capable or willing to examine life-imprisonment sentences, it's that the prisoners, state and their families choose not to prolong the legal recourse with appeals, reviews or inquires. With capital sentences they take...

This 200-Trillion Watt Laser Produces Plasma Hotter Than The Sun It’s amazing that scientists can recreate natural phenomena in labs experiments, including plasma many times hotter than the center of our own sun. In the middle of the photo above you can see a little star, white hot plasma...

What it looks like to get hit in the face with a tank shell So this is completely terrifying. In a holy crap wait a minute this isn't a video game right kind of way. No, no it is not. This is what it looks like to take a direct hit from a tank shell in real life. You can see it blast out of...

These ridiculously detailed aerial photos of London are so stunning The weather isn’t great and the pubs close too early and the food is often better in other cities and yet London is still one of the capitals of the world and is packed with so much history. Photographer Vincent LaForet took...

The World's Oldest Stone Tools Were Not Made By Humans Archeologists working in Kenya have discovered the world’s oldest stone tools. At 3.3 million years, they’re 700,000 years older than what were previously the most ancient stone tools ever discovered. In fact, they’re even older than...

Both should be an option. Rehabilitate those you can, imprison those you can, execute those too extreme in their behaviors if needed. Ideally rehabilitation would be the option of choice for everyone, no matter their crimes, but as you rightfully pointed out, some people test our goodness too...

I am interested, but I am not interested in blankets. All things in life are grey, not black and white. Let's take a look at some common scenarios in the US: Do I support the death penalty? Yes and no, it's purely conditional on the individual case. Do I believe religion has worth in modern...

Here's food for thought though: By the numbers, the annual cost of the death penalty in the state of California is $137 million compared to the cost of lifetime incarceration of $11.5 million. Considering The Death Penalty: Your Tax Dollars At Work - Forbes It's commonly thought that the...

If the state so chooses, then they can. That may constituent cruel and unusual punishment though.

Nowhere. I am neither for nor against capital punishment.

Nebraska lawmakers vote to abolish death penalty Nebraska lawmakers gave final approval on Wednesday to a bill abolishing the death penalty with enough votes to override a promised veto from Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts. The vote was 32 to 15 in Nebraska's unicameral Legislature. If that...

Air Force's X-37B Space Plane Launches Secret Mission Today Editor's Update for 11:30 am ET: The Air Force's X-37B space plane has successfully launched on its fourth mission. Read our latest story: US Air Force Launches X-37B Space Plane on 4th Mystery Mission The United States Air Force's...

How A Notorious Chemical Weapon Led To The Invention Of Chemotherapy Mustard gas was, and is, one of the most terrifying weapons of war. It made people break out in blisters, and killed them slowly over weeks. It also inspired one of the first effective forms of cancer therapy. Here’s how...

The US Is Testing a Storm Surge Warning System for Hurricanes The wall of wind-driven ocean that accompanies a hurricane is called a “surge” for a reason: This isn’t a gentle rising of the water level, it’s violent and destructive—sometimes more so than the hurricane’s winds. This hurricane...

This Vacuum Chamber Looks Like Some Futuristic Spaceship Corridor Huge vacuum chambers on Earth are crucial for building and testing spacecraft, so we explore further into space. The photo above is Vacuum Chamber 5, where electric propulsion and power systems are being tested at Glenn...

JAXA - Japan's Space Agency Small Solar Sail IKAROS: Space yacht accelerated by radiation of the Sun A Solar Sail gathers sunlight as propulsion by means of a large membrane while a Solar "Power" Sail gets electricity from thin film solar cells on the membrane in addition to acceleration...

JAXA - Japan's Space Agency: Crew Capsule H-II Transfer Vehicle The H-II Transfer Vehicle is Japan’s International Space Station Resupply Spacecraft that is used to deliver cargo to the Station. It was designed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. HTV is built and operated by JAXA...