Everything you need to know about recycling your cell phone

How many old mobile phones do you have lying around? One, two, three? A recent consumer survey found that 44% of the world’s phones are lying unused in drawers, yet only 3% of people recycle them. Want to make some extra cash and help save the planet? Here's how.

'Magic mushrooms' ingredient may ease end-of-life anxiety - CNN.com

Terminally ill cancer patients struggling with anxiety may get some relief from a guided "trip" on the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin, a new study suggests.

Giant Metal Transmission Towers Designed to Look Like Humans

Boston-based architecture firm Choi + Shine designs giant electric transmission towers with lifelike features! Nothing spoils a peaceful drive or bike ride through nature more than passing by a series of ugly manmade transmission towers...

First-Ever Baby Seahorse Spotted in British Waters

The Dorset waters are Britain's largest known breeding colony for seahorses, according to the Telegraph, which writes that adult, pregnant male, and juvenile spiny seahorses have been spotted there since surveys of the area began in 1994. But this was the first time a baby has been spotted.

Research: Early Man 'Butchered & Ate the Brains of Children as Part of Everyday Diet'

Other than that, early man was fantastic...

Thousands Of Returning Soldiers Face A New Enemy

The legacy of one of America's longest combat missions will continue to affect the thousands of troops who came home suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries.

New Fabric-Dyeing Technique Uses Fluid-State CO2, Not Water

A Dutch company has unveiled what it believes to be the first commercial dyeing machine to replace water with supercritical carbon dioxide—a pressurized form of the gas with unusual liquid-like properties. Heated up to 31 degrees Celsius (88 degrees Fahrenheit) and pressurized to 74 bar, CO2 takes on the characteristics of both a liquid and a gas, allowing for the dissolution of compounds such as dyes.

Making phosphorus safer | R&D Mag

A MIT team has developed a new way to attach phosphorus to organic compounds by first splitting the phosphorus with ultraviolet light. Their method eliminates the need for chlorine, which is usually required for such reactions and poses health risks to workers handling the chemicals.

Painted Hills, Oregon Sunrise

Sunrise on the Painted Hills at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Painted Hills, Oregon. I had to travel three hours on very rural winding country roads in the dark, with steep drop-offs to get there for this opening shot of the day! (This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.) Oregon - United States - Rural area - John Day Fossil Beds National Monument - Shopping

How to get into 20 classic science fiction shows: The ultimate guide

Even if you're a massive science fiction fan, there are probably still some great shows you've yet to discover. But for massively long-running shows, where to begin? Here's our guide to how to start watching twenty classic science fiction shows.

Do Not Mess with the Lion. Gorgeous...(Pic)

The Motion In The Ocean: How Waves Are Formed (Graphic)

There's motion in the ocean, but where does it coming from? Waves are a beloved part of nature, but few know how they're actually formed. Some are big some are small, some are short, some are tall. So, if you've been wondering how the waves at your local beach are formed, look no further

Turds or Curds: Which Fairground Droppings Best Convert to Energy?

Which waste is the best to convert to energy -- animal dung or leftover funnel cakes, corn dogs, cotton candy and other fairground favorites? That's what a Midwest scientist and a group of researchers are exploring at the Minnesota State Fair.

25 Pictures of Rockets Being Launched

The title is a little deceptive in that there are certainly other weapons being fired in some of these images. Nonetheless, I found these images stunning, and

Bill Gates: The End of Textbooks as We Know Them

An Afternoon of Conversation engages big thinkers and doers in serious discussion about their work and the future.This conversation features Bill Gates and Walter Isaacson.

House Built From Hemp Is Full Of Green Surprises

All images from Push House In much of the world, hemp is thought of as a useful building material; Warren recently showed us an interesting house from Australia and it is common in the UK. But in America, it is still the butt of hippie jokes; Matt Hickman of the Mother Nature Networks describes a new house in Asheville, North Carolina with references to Tommy Chong and describes the interior: "there's not a blacklight poster, hanging spider plant, or crumpled up Cheetos bag in sight." Discovery News says "Put aside old visions of burlap-like shirts that belong with hacky sacks." Even the owner tells CNN ""We heard that we could have a really great neighborhood party if it ever caught on fire." It's a shame that everyone is focusing on that, because it is just one interesting product in a fascinating house that is full of surprises.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image of the Day: NASA Space Time-Lapse of Earth

Historic NASA Photos [PICS From the Archive]

NASA has partnered with The Commons on Flickr and the Internet Archive to make a collection of 180 historic photos available for public viewing. The photos are arranged into three sections – Building NASA, Launch/Takeoff and NASA Center Namesakes. We’ve compiled some of the photos below but head on over to the NASA Flickr stream for the whole collection. The photos are also available, along with thousands more, on the NASA Images website.

NASA Outdoes All Homemade Flamethrower Videos [Video]

Whoa.

New Research Challenges Marijuana Gateway Theory

The widespread belief that marijuana users will eventually and inevitably move on to harder drugs has yet more evidence against it with the release of a new study. Whether teenagers who smoked pot will use other illegal drugs as young adults has a lot more to do with factors such as employment status and stress, according to the new research.

Mass Extinction Threat: Earth on Verge of Huge Reset Button?

The most species-rich groups of animals don't necessarily rebound after a mass extinction event.

Hawking: God Not Needed for Universe to be Created

Physicist Stephen Hawking has written a new book called The Grand Design. In it Hawking says that the universe’s beginnings – or the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics and that God wasn’t needed to “light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."

Curious Whales Check Out Photographers with Stunning Results

Reaching sizes of up to 80 feet long and 150 tons, whales are some of the oceans' most varied and majestic creatures -- and they're also some of its most endangered: Of the 11 species of great whales, at least nine have been severely impacted by years of whaling, according to Sea World. But while whales can be aggressive at times, they are more often gentle, curious creatures -- and likely to check out foreign objects in the water, including boats and photographers. Right Whale This massive right whale came up to wildlife photographer Brian Skerry with "great curiosity, but no aggression," he told The Daily Mail, when he was working underwater off the Auckland Islands. Fully-grown right whales are around 55 feet long and weigh nearly 70 tons, and are usually black with patches of rough skin known as callosities on their head. Though endangered right whales live all over the world, scientists believe there are no more than 350 of them left in the North Atlantic, 100 in the North Pacific, and a few thousand in the Southern Hemisphere. Photo via The Daily Mail ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Simple Household Stink Pranks!

How to make 3 terrifying stink pranks. In this episode of Scientific Tuesdays we will take some common household items and turrn them into the ultimate weapon of olfactory doom...

Marijuana a "Gateway" Drug? Scientists Call Theory Half-Baked

New Study Says Life Stresses Explain Likelihood that Pot Smokers Move on to `Hard` Drugs

Brain Exercises Can Accelerate Mental Decline

Challenging your brain can delay dementia. But when it happens, symptoms progress more quickly.

When Bike Sharing Falters (and Why We Can't Let It)

Photo credit by batega via flickr. In its early days, Barcelona's Bicing seemed like an unparalleled success. With 400 stations and 3,000 of the squat, burly red-and-white bikes stationed around the city, Bicing quickly became part of Barcelona's big city atmosphere and was enthusiastically received by inhabitants. But after five years, something scary started to happen, in addition to the vandalism and abandonment that plagued Bicing and other big programs...ridership started to decline.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Could The Big Bang Theory Be Wrong?

A physicist has new ideas about the origins of our universe, possibly rendering the Big Babng theory obsolete!

New Explosion Rips Through Gulf of Mexico

No one was killed, but the rig was on fire.

Risk of Marijuana's 'gateway effect' Overblown, Research Shows

New Research from the University of New Hampshire shows the gateway effect of marijuana is overblown.

Start-up company aims to harness the full potential of producing electricity from waste heat

(PhysOrg.com) -- Matt Scullin co-founded Alphabet Energy just one year ago, but already the CEO has ambitions of turning the San Francisco-based start-up company into the 'Intel of waste heat.' By harnessing the waste heat emitted by power plants, industrial furnaces, and cars, Alphabet Energy envisions ...

A Plastic Revolution: de Rothschild Sails the Plastiki

The Plastiki is no average boat. It is made up of 12,500 plastic bottles salvaged from the garbage bins of San Francisco. Onboard there are solar panels, wind turbines and a hydroponic vertical garden.

Human-Like Brain Found in Worm

For the first time, a structure comparable to our cerebral cortex has been found in an invertebrate -- a humble marine ragworm.

Ethanol Blends Increasingly Common: Want Pure Gasoline?

The next time you fill up, think about this: What you think of as gasoline might not be gasoline. At least not entirely.

Brain exercises may slow cognitive decline initially, but speed up dementia later

New research shows that mentally stimulating activities such as crossword puzzles, reading and listening to the radio may, at first, slow the decline of thinking skills but speed up dementia later in old age.

Put Down the Electronics and Back Away

I know, it's TechStuff, so I should be telling you to pick up the electronics, right? According to a study at the University of California, San Francisco quoted by Matt Richtel of The New York Times, rats engaged with new experiences go through periods of intense brain activity. But the rats don't actually process what they've experienced and learn from that experience until they stop and have the chance to think about it. Richtel said the researchers believe the same may be true for people as well.

Sunspot Photo is Most Detailed Ever (pic)

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The Largest Hailstone Ever Recorded In The United States!

"Even after melting, the stone [produced from the thunderstorm that struck Vivian, South Dakota, U.S. of A., on 23 July 2010] still measured 8.0 inches in diameter and weighed nearly 2 pounds (1 pound, 15 ounces) with a circumference of 18.62 inches." Photo credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

How Blind People See the Internet

Your eyes are absorbing this webpage. They're passing over this, this, then this word, right now. That's how reading works, online: you take this for granted. But what if you couldn't?