80 to 100 species of fungus have been found to live on people’s feet, according to the scientific journal Nature. Powered by WPeMatico

A fisherman in Australia’s far north spent his 45th birthday sharing a caravan park cabin with a 2-metre crocodile after a local official refused to let it lodge in his house, news reports said. Powered by WPeMatico

Three Limpopo farmers have been arrested for alleged attempted murder after apprehending a suspected rhino poacher. Powered by WPeMatico

Astronauts on future missions to Mars may be able to dial up a pizza via a 3D printer. NASA announced it awarded a $125,000 grant to Systems & Materials Research Corporation’s Anjan Contractor, who has already designed the printer. The head of the printer will be fed with a combination of nutrients, water, oils and [...]

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics said Thursday its latest flagship Galaxy S4 had become its fastest selling smartphone to date, topping 10 million units globally less than a month after its debut. Powered by WPeMatico

Working on the moon with lunar soil and grit could prove easier, more efficient and less costly than using earthly materials Powered by WPeMatico

Pro and Con Images from Clean Water Portland (left) and Healthy Kids Healthy Portland (right) So when is Portlandia going to do a skit about this? Residents of Portland, Oregon, voted down, yet again, an effort to add fluoride to their tap water. With 80 percent of the expected ballots counted, Mayor Charlie Hales “conceded [...]

Triton on the Tarmac, May 21, 2013 U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Northrop Grumman by Chad Slattery The long-range maritime drone will give the U.S. unprecedented surveillance of the world’s oceans. For the U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman, it’s shaping up to be a banner year in unmanned flight. While the carrier-based autonomous X-47B continues [...]

MRSA CDC Antibacterial clays can kill antibiotic-resistant E. coli and MRSA, researchers found. The colloquial medical advice “rub some dirt in it” appears to have some merit. Researchers at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have been experimenting with different clays, and it appears in research presented in the journal PLoS ONE that they’ve come across [...]

Oklahoma City Tornado bschjoth A disaster by the numbers. Monday’s tornado in the Oklahoma City area killed at least 24 people and leveled a massive number of homes and businesses. The L.A. Times quoted weather officials as saying the twister “was at least in the same league” as the harrowing tornado that struck the same [...]

Nanoflower 4 Wim L. Noorduin Harvard researchers grew these lovely microscopic gardens using delicate chemical reactions. Click here to enter the gallery A nanorose may not smell as sweet as an organic one, but the red petals on this micron-scale flower are unquestionably just as beautiful. At Harvard University, materials scientists have perfected an underwater [...]

The Award-Winning, Manipulated Photo Fred Hansen In the wake of the scandal around the winner of the World Press Photo award, which was found to have been manipulated significantly with Photoshop, it seems like the right time to discuss this sort of editing. Our sister publication, American Photo, has an excellent interview with Fred Ritchin, [...]

The Full Disk Here’s a full-on “disk” shot of the planet, taken by NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite. (Fun fact: NOAA is pronounced like the name “noah.”) You can see the storm over the central part of the US. NASA/NOAA GOES Project, Dennis Chesters What the destructive tornado looked like from satellites high above. Click to launch [...]

Illustration of a Generic Flu Virus Centers for Disease Control and Prevention A synthetic biology method proves its chops. A copy of the genetic code of an H7N9 avian flu-similar to, but not exactly the same as the flu that has killed 36 people in China-arrived in a lab in Boston Easter Sunday, 2011. By [...]

'Joe's' multi-round-ready 3-D printed Lulz Liberator A Wisconsin engineer has produced a cheaper, more durable version of Defense Distributed’s 3-D printed pistol on an inexpensive, consumer-grade printer. Defense Distributed’s plastic, 3-D printed “Liberator” single-shot handgun was here for a moment and then it was gone in more than one sense. For one, the news cycle [...]