Science Highlights

HuffPost Science Correspondent Cara Santa Maria details scientific attempts at quantifying human attractiveness, including facial beauty, ideal proportions, and whether or not "gaydar" can be measured.

From NASA: In this animation of temperature data from 1880-2011, reds indicate temperatures higher than the average during a baseline period of 1951-1980, while blues indicate lower temperatures than the baseline average. (Data source: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Visualization credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio)

HuffPost Science correspondent Cara Santa Maria discusses the ever-growing problem of space junk.

Oklahoma woman learns the hard way why Jack Horkheimer says "keep looking up."

This zoom sequence starts with a wide-field view of the rather empty region of sky around the constellation of Aquarius. As we close in we can see the faint ring shape of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), one of the closest planetary nebulae to the Earth. In the final sequence we see a new image of the Helix taken in infrared light with the VISTA telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile.

Test your knowledge. How much does the average adult brain weigh?

HuffPost Science Correspondent Cara Santa Maria examines the risks and benefits of traveling to the red planet.

HuffPost Science Correspondent Cara Santa Maria digs deep to find out where prejudice resides in the human brain, how it manifests behaviorally, and whether our biased habits can be broken.

HuffPost Science Correspondent Cara Santa Maria discusses new NIH regulations regarding chimpanzee research.

Blow one out today for the inventor of bubble gum.

Some people will promise you the moon. Galileo once tried it with four of 'em.

HuffPost Science Correspondent Cara Santa Maria discusses in vitro meat, a new technology that may soon revolutionize the way we feed the growing world population.

An octopus found from the deeps of a vent in Antarctica.