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This Neat Lego Automaton Can Draw Portraits

This is Legonardo, an automaton capable of drawing portraits. It doesn’t have the complex clockwork used by automatons of old, like its Swiss counterpart made by Pierre Jacquet-Droz and Henri Maillardet in the 18th century, but it’s pretty neat anyway.


Watch What Happens When An ATM Gives People Free Money

This publicity stunt will restore your faith in humanity. A video recorded in Spain, which is suffering a terrible recession, shows what people did when an ATM offered free money on the unenforced condition that they shared the money wth others.


Scientists Find Lost Continent In The Indian Ocean

Scientists have found proof of a sunken continent in the Indian Ocean. According to a study published in Nature Geoscience, the continent “was separated from Madagascar and fragmented into a ribbon-like configuration by a series of mid-ocean ridge jumps during the opening of the Mascarene ocean basin.”


Incredible Images Of The Massive New Tunnels Hollowing New York City

There is a 7m long, 180-tonne steel monster under Manhattan. Dead, resting deep somewhere under Grand Central Station and Park Avenue, this machine and her twin brother excavated the massive tunnels that you can see here, one of the largest public transportation works of our time.


Evidence Of Martian Life May Be Waiting In This Scoop Of Dirt

Like a Danish gourmet, the Mars Curiosity Rover is about to eat a scoop of ground dirt — the one you can see here. This is the first sample of powdered Martian rock extracted using the rover’s drill.


Russian Ghost Cruise Ship Mysteriously Reappears After Two Months Adrift

This is the Russian cruise ship MV Lyubov Orlova. It disappeared shortly after it left Canada en route to the Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean. Two months later it has reappeared as a ghost ship, completely empty, floating adrift 2400km off the west coast of Ireland.


Hubble Captures Extraordinary Galactic Trains Collision

See that V in the sky, surrounded by galaxies? It’s uninspiring name is IC 2184 and it is one of the weirdest galaxies you will ever see. In fact, it’s still two galaxies, captured in the middle of a collision that will result in a completely new galactic shape a few million years from now.


Never-Before-Seen Video Shows Fire Raining On The Sun

“On July 19, 2012, the sun produced a medium-size solar flare,” NASA says on this new video, “what occurred with the flare was amazing.” It’s true. It’s amazing. Fire started to fall down like rain — a hell waterfall many times the size of planet Earth. You have to watch this uncanny document for yourself.


Astronomers Announce Tiniest Planet Ever Discovered

If I were Pluto, I would be really pissed off with the astronomers that just announced the tiniest planet ever discovered. It’s a new planetary system called Kepler-37, which is centred around a star similar to our sun about 210 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra.


This Is Neither Mars Nor Mercury — This Is Earth

Commander Chris Hadfield — god bless his astrochops — just took this photo of Earth with the following caption: “Mars is a very interesting planet, with its rugged, ancient surface. But this is Earth.”


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