Weird, cool illustrations:
Illustrator Thomas Lamadieu Continues to Imagine the Strange Inhabitants Living in the Sky Between Buildings

New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function; of the mice that received the treatment, 75 percent got their memories back.

More:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

Look like very nice landscapes, if you ask me:
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/01/brothers-grimm-landscapes/

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/gallery/entertainment/25-breathtakingly-beautiful-frozen-lakes-oceans-and-ponds-look-art

So cool (thanks to low_delta for pointing me to this):
Incredible Flowers Created with Splashes and High Speed Photography.

The folks at Futility Closet go into the "Wow" signal, and what caused the astronomer to write "Wow" next to this printout from a radio telescope.
The Wow! signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected by Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977, while he was working on a SETI project at the Big Ear radio telescope of The Ohio State University, ( Read more... )

‘Biospleen Device’ Uses Magnetic Nanoparticles to Filter Pathogens from Blood

Woah. Trippy (and it makes sense to me; I hope it's illustrated right):
http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/our-model-of-the-solar-system-has-been-wrong-this-entire-time/

Edit: No, it's wrong. Here's the ( Read more... )

From ThinkGeek:A dog named Robot is pretty awesome. A dog named Robot in 1940 is crazy awesome. A dog named Robot in 1940 who goes down a hole and finds 17,000 year old cave paintings? That's Lascaux for you. Today's the 74th anniversary of the day 4 teenagers (and a dog named Robot) discovered the magnificent Paleolithic cave paintings. Best dog ( Read more... )