Scientists trying to understand the biological processes behind involuntary human responses say they have been able to determine what makes a person's nipples become hard. The Guardian reports: S...
GOP CONVENTION. Marco Rubio will stay home. “Rubio joins a list of prominent Republicans — among them Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, John McCain and Kelly Ayotte — skipping the convention because ...
Do you like the sound of your own voice? If you are like most people, chances are you are not a big fan. That's according to YouTube superstars Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown. In their latest...
https://www.towleroad.com/2016/07/do-you-hate-the-sound-of-your-recorded-voice-heres-why/
A study published by the National Toxicology Program last month, which showed an increase in tumors in male rats exposed to cellphone-like radiation, raised some concerns about the safety of t...
You have likely seen a few headlines in your day that purport to use science as a means to prove some strange and obscure finding about how you could be living a healthier life. For instance, �...
https://www.towleroad.com/2016/05/john-oliver-scientific-studies/
Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, has begun a transit that only happens about 13 times every 100 years. The transit is currently underway and you can watch it LIVE below. The l...
https://www.towleroad.com/2016/05/mercury-transit-sun-watch-live/
New research examining the persistent presence of homosexuality across different time periods and cultures has concluded that at least half of all heterosexual people must be carrying ‘gay gene...
The LGBT group at CERN – the home of the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator – has been targeted with a prolonged campaign of homophobic abuse. LGBT CERN members have had posters defac...
2016 ELECTION: Republican National Committee hits Clinton with new email attack: “A new website attempts to rebut what it calls the “dishonest claims” the Democratic presidential front-run...
Yesterday we reported on Alaska Airlines Flight 870, which planned to alter its flight path so that passengers could get a glimpse of a rare solar eclipse from the plane's windows. Wrote the airl...
https://www.towleroad.com/2016/03/solar-eclipse-from-alaska-airlines/
Oceanographers recently discovered an unusual octopus living at a depth of 4,290 meters. The cephalopod lacks pigment, making it look like a ghost. Scientists aboard the NOAA ship Oceans Explor...
If you're wondering what sort of psychedelic visuals we're looking at here, it is the Milky Way in amazing detail. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) made these pictures public announcing t...
Using a rocket to propel commercial satellites into orbit and then safely returning that rocket to a small landing pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida doesn't sound quite as thrilling as, say, put...
Because everyone needs a bit of good news to get through the week, here's an uplifting clip of a sexy scientist who collects fracking data from ponds rescuing a fawn who coudn't get out due to...
https://www.towleroad.com/2015/12/science-hunk-rescues-fawn/
Elon Musk's SpaceX landed a reusable rocket at Cape Canaveral Monday night. View the webcast above. Watch the landing from a helicopter below: Writes SpaceX: With this mission, SpaceX's Falcon...
If you've ever wondered what happens when you fill a magnum-sized condom with water and drop it over your head, wonder no longer. Gav and Dan, aka The Slow Mo Guys, have filmed a lot of things o...
NASA this week released a very cool video of our solar system's dwarf planet Ceres, a composite of images taken by the Dawn spacecraft. Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt. The clip...
Just in time for HIV/AIDS Awareness month comes a video from the guys at ASAPSciene that explains the essential facts about HIV and AIDS and what hope there may be for a cure for the disease tha...
By Simon Tegel LIMA, Peru — On a remote hilltop 8,000 feet above sea level in Chile's Atacama Desert, scientists hope to answer one of the most fundamental questions facing humankind: Is there ...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin New Shepard reusable rocket hit a test altitude of 329,839 feet and then made a successful return landing to its launch site in western Texas on Monday, t...
Greg and Mitch, the gay couple behind ASAPScience, whose videos we often feature here on Towleroad, have launched a new series called “The Lab” where they take viewer questions and turn them ...
Humans have evolved over thousands of years to have a variety of traits that proved increasingly beneficial to the species as a whole. However, these mutations take thousands of years to develop ...
NASA's Cassini probe just sent back some amazing photos of Enceladus, Saturn's sixth-largest, ice-covered moon. Enceladus was recently confirmed to have a global underground ocean under its icy c...
Marine biologists diving near the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific were shocked when they came across a glowing sea turtle, the first bioluminescent reptile ever recorded. The turtle, a hawks...
NASA scientists announced today that they have definitive proof of liquid flowing water on Mars today, bolstering chances that life could be found somewhere on the planet. The walls of some valle...