Recently unearthed glass fragments in Brazil testify to a major event that occurred several million years ago. Called tektites, these fragments form when an object from space strikes the Earth ...

Aden Kahr Humans have long been fascinated by crystals. Archaeological evidence suggests our ancestors have treasured small ...

They gave quartz, calcite and other types of crystals to chimpanzees in a rehabilitation center. The apes responded with great interest, and the researchers ended up needing to trade large amounts of ...

Amazon has some interesting gadgets that you can buy, like this particular one that turns any object around you into a perfectly functional musical instrument.

This is an edition of the newsletter Box + Papers, Cam Wolf’s weekly deep dive into the world of watches. It’s currently being manned by Jeremy Freed, watch writer extraordinaire, while Cam is on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock One beachgoer found a translucent creature on a beach in West Cork, Ireland. While it may have looked like an ...

The Union Home Ministry now mandates singing the full six-stanza version of Vande Mataram at government events, reigniting debate over its religious imagery. Critics, including Tagore, favored only ...

Abstract: Active object tracking adjusts camera poses to keep single target within field-of-view, and therefore is more complex than video object tracking. In this paper, we propose KDAOT, a knowledge ...

From massive stone edifices like the pyramids in Egypt and the Great Wall in China to the high-tech (and incredibly expensive) International Space Station zipping overhead in low-Earth orbit, humanity ...