Are you completely done with exploring the .onion deep web? What if there were a new top level domain, similarly named after vegetables, but funnier ones, like a turnip? Carrot? Perhaps rhubarb? Haven’t you always wanted to go to a website that ended in .rhubarb? Unfortunately, we can’t help you with that, but we can help you keep track of all your chef-based needs and desires with our new sister site, The Braiser!

While SpaceX may be leading the headlines as a leader in the commercial space sector, they aren’t the only ones working with NASA to build next generation spaceships. Boeing, that venerable aeronautics company, has thrown its hat in as well with its CST-100 capsule. This past Wednesday, the parachutes designed to bring the spaceship safely to the ground passed a critical test in the Nevada desert.

When I had an iPod Touch, the first thing I did after jailbreaking was replace my unlock slider with an unlock button. Apparently a lot of people out there are much more fond of sliding to unlock than I ever was; The Falco Initiative have actually turned it into an iOS game called Slide. It works pretty much exactly how you think it would. That is, you do a lot of sliding. What’s surprising is how deep the game seems to go with that simple mechanic.

While this bright purple and red crab seems impossible to overlook, it was only recently identified by a research team led by German scientist Hendrik Freitag from the Senckenberg Natural History Museum. Beautiful as it is, this crab – Insulamon palawanense — lives only in remote regions of the Philippine island Palawan which makes its future quite uncertain. 

Wikipedian and compulsive editor Justin Knapp has just accomplished a goal that is surreal in its magnitude. Justin Knapp is the first person to make 1 million edits to everyone’s favorite free, editable encyclopedia. Yes anyone can edit it, but no one edits it quite like Justin Knapp. He’s been barreling at the record for the a while now, maintaining an average of over 350 amendments per day. In celebration of his achievements, Knapp has been given an impressive array of Wikipedia awards, and has had April 20th named as a holiday in his honor as a thank you from Jimmy Wales himself.

Debuting just two years ago, Pinterest has seen a massive surge of interest in recent months. Now, a new report indicates that it has blown past competitors like Tumblr and Google+ to become the third most popular social network, after Twitter and Facebook.

Unlike your typical spring-powered scale, high-precision scales used to weigh the smallest materials use carbon nanotubes which vibrate at different frequencies depending on the mass on them. However, a group of scientists at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology in Barcelona, Spain have achieved an unprecedented level of accuracy with their nanotube scales, which are sensitive down to one yoctogram, or 10^-24 grams. For reference, a single proton weighs about 1.7 yoctograms.

In the last few months, we’ve seen an incredible influx in the sale of tablets and eBook readers, and now a report from the Association of American Publishers says that those devices were put to good use with enormous increases in eBook sales across the board. Most of these sales were concentrated in the Children’s/Young Adult category, which saw a whopping 475.1% increase over last year.

As most of you probably know, the black and white silent film The Artist won the Academy Award for best picture last night. In case you haven’t seen it (I haven’t, and have been itching to for weeks), The Artist is a mostly silent, black and white film about silent black and white film. With its win last night, this delightfully anachronistic movie has reset the clock on some remarkable Oscar records.

There’s a number of puzzles about the beginnings of life on Earth that continue to evade scientists. One of them was a pretty fundamental question about how life made the jump from single-celled organisms to the multicellular marvels we’re familiar with today. Researcher Will Ratcliff at the University of Minnesota wanted to look at how that process may have occurred and discovered that it might not have been so big a leap after all.