What does NASA astronaut Don Pettit do in his spare time in space? Practice his yo-yo skills, naturally.

Every year, more than 150 million red crabs move across Christmas Island for mating season. Mayhem and hilarity ensue.

Normally we stick with standard-issue cute animal videos for lunch break posts, but today we're adding in a little science. David Hu and colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta filmed 33 wet mammals as they shook themselves dry. The results were surprisingly interesting.

We're interrupting the nonstop Paul Ryan coverage to bring you this terribly important lunch break video about physics. And cats.

The athletes of the 1950s were graceful, but didn't have much on Gabby Douglas.

A corgi has a most excellent afternoon.

“The first thing I felt was a huge bite on my left foot. It felt like I had my foot stuck in a refrigerator or a vise, and I knew instantly that it was a shark,” says a recent survivor of a shark attack. “And we started swimming as hard as we could toward shore.”

A roboticist in California has brought the 2008 Disney character to life.

If Etsy were in charge of the Olympics, it would probably look something like this "homemade highlight" dreamed up by the Wall Street Journal.

A relative of the anteater, the numbat is all kinds of awesome. Let's learn a bit more!