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If somebody went and made kvetching an organized sport, New Yorkers would no doubt be among the game's most preternaturally gifted bellyachers. But what, exactly, would they complain about?

Yesterday we told you about the biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2012. But now we turn our attention to those developments that make us realize just how futuristic things are quickly becoming.

This was an incredible year for science and engineering. We sent a powerful robot scientist to Mars, and we discovered the elusive Higgs Boson particle, plus there were world-changing innovations in medicine and materials science.

We asked six great physicists to name their favorite occasions when breaking the laws of physics makes science fiction better, and here's what they told us.

A new study purports to use evolutionary psychology to explain why men fall asleep after sex, and what it actually means. The study is being widely reported as proving that men only fall asleep after sex to avoid giving affection or commitment to their female partners.

All across the globe, there are monuments and tourist attractions that transform our otherwise boring reality into a gleefully tumescent fantasia. Here are the world's most otherworldly phallic vacation destinations.

A tiny strip of plastic uses electrical impulses to manipulate air and fly. That's right — this could be the prototype for an actual magic carpet. Well, perhaps it would be more like magic linoleum.

This is so incredible I can hardly stand it. Check out this clip from Channel 4's Inside Nature's Giants, wherein researchers pass compressed air through the larynx of a dead lion to demonstrate how it modulates the tone of its roar.

When many of us think of reptiles we immediately envision them as egglaying creatures but there are some reptiles that actually give birth to live young All of the reptiles in this second category possess a rudimentary placenta, but until recenty, not one of them was believed to have a true placenta

The amazing inscriptions on ancient cave walls represent some of humanity's first known creative work, but it wasn't just master artists who were allowed to paint. Kids as young as two or three were cave-painting 13,000 years ago.