Switzerland is now officially a "bad country" according to Congress because it isn't saying what Hollywood wants to hear.

Research which involved slathering two types of fungus on wood (as one does) has yielded cheap violins which sound like a Stradivarius.

Earlier this hour, CERN announced a 5 sigma discovery of a new particle consistent with a Higgs boson. We break it down in layman's terms.

Firebug Pug is ready to bring the Goldberg.

Get ready for your big payout, Randall Munroe.

We know the Swiss are secretly pretty edgy: that guy at right, for example.

[via]Researchers at CERN in Geneva released the results from a recent experiment (full paper here) that suggested neutrinos can travel faster than light, which would be contrary to Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Researchers at UPenn's GRASP Lab taught quadrotor helicopters "precise aggressive maneuvers" then gave them claws and programmed them to lift objects in unison and recover from violent throws.

Not content with teaching a quadrotor helicopter how to be a Researchers study high-performance flight, fast-changing flight maneuvers and other topics [Ed.