The New York Times reports that an Older Brain Really May Be a Wiser Brain

Thanks to NASA’s Swift satellite, astronomers have seen a star actually blow up.

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In February, 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell experienced the little understood phenomenon sometimes called the “Overview Effect”. He describes being completely engulfed by a profound sense of universal connectedness … Read the rest of this fascinating piece from The Daily Galaxy.

Amazing story of a man who lost his finger, and was able to regrow it using a powder composed from the cells of a pig’s bladder. Watch the video.

I love statistics … and here’s a fascinating page of real-time stats showing such things as current world population, births and deaths, food and environment stats and a whole lot more. You can also check out how much spam has been sent in the world so far today. Some of the figures are staggering …

It seems that America is about to be overrun by cats! Check out this story from FoxNews.

The BBC has screened remarkable footage of penguins flying as part of its new natural history series, Miracles of Evolution.

Camera crews discovered a colony of Adélie penguins while filming on King George Island, some 750 miles south of the Falkland Islands.

Google and Virgin Group have just announced a joint-venture aimed at creating a human settlement on Mars by 2050, in a project the two companies called the Virgle.

“Earth has issues, and it’s time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history,” says a statement on the home page setting up the venture.