Rare Apple has Split Personality

Ken Morrish of Colaton Raleigh, Devon, England picked a bizarre Red Delicious apple off his tree. It looks as if someone stuck together half of a green apple and half of a red apple, but these colors are natural.

John Breach, chairman of the British Independent Fruit Growers Association, said: ‘I’ve never seen this happen before to a Golden Delicious. It is extremely rare. It is an extreme mutation.

Zombie Pin-Ups and other Retro Horrors

Kristian Hammerstad's posters features well-dressed zombie women, an alien invasion, and other images out of scifi-influenced horror, rendered in a nostalgic, Charles Burns-influenced style.

12 Surface IQ Pentagon

Move over, Rubik’s Cube: the 12-Surface IQ Pentagon is a Rubik’s Dodecahedron that promises to train both your left and right brain, if it doesn’t permanently scramble it into goo first.

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Eclipses

Cave Diving into the Devil's Eye

Jill Heinerth has spent the past 14 years exploring underwater caves all over the world. Wired has a gallery of beautiful photographs she’s taken in underwater caves, lava tubes, and glaciers. This picture was taken at Devil’s Eye Spring off the coast of northern Florida.

Longest lightning storm on Saturn breaks Solar System record

A powerful lightning storm in Saturn’s atmosphere that began in mid-January 2009 has become the Solar System’s longest continuously observed thunderstorm. It broke the record duration of 7.5 months set by another thunderstorm observed on Saturn by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft between November 2007 and July 2008.

Egyptian temples followed heavenly plans

ANCIENT Egyptian temples were aligned so precisely with astronomical events that people could set their political, economic and religious calendars by them. So finds a study of 650 temples, some dating back to 3000 BC.

Hieroglyphs on temple walls have hinted at the use of astronomy in temple architecture, including depictions of the "stretching of the cord" ceremony in which the pharaoh marked out the alignment for the temple with string. But there had been little evidence to support the drawings. Belmonte and Mosalam Shaltout of the Helwan Observatory in Cairo found that the temples are all aligned according to an astronomically significant event, such as a solstice or equinox, or the rising of Sirius, the brightest star in the sky.

How magicians control your mind

Magic isn't just a bag of tricks - it's a finely tuned technology for shaping what we see. Now researchers are extracting its lessons.

Secrets Of Hats On The Easter Island Statues

It is one of the great mysteries that has baffled explorers, archaeologists and anthropologists alike – what was the meaning of the giant Easter Island statues and what role did they play in the demise of this once-complex civilisation? But since the first non-islanders arrived in the remote archipelago half a millennium ago, another equally profound question has niggled away at the backs of their minds: where did they get those hats?

Gaze Upon The Most Beautiful Viruses You'll Ever See

We're taught to think about viruses in certain ways. "Beautiful" isn't one of them, but British artist Luke Jerram - who created these sculptures with virologists and glassblowers - is looking to challenge our preconceptions with his new work.

Old Photos of the Egyptian Pyramids and Sphinx

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New Study Shows Each Person has "At Least 100 Mutations"

Every person born has at least 100 new mutations in her genome, and probably a lot more. That was the finding from a group of scientists who studied genetic mutations in two men from an extended family. The scientists published their work in Current Biology, and described using rapid DNA sequencing technology to investigate the subtle genetic differences that signal mutation from one generation to the next. Based on the number of mutations they found, the scientists estimate most people would have between 100-200 unique mutations in their genomes.