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The Public's About to Get Its First Taste of Lab-Grown Hamburger
Absolutely not a lab-grown burger. Image: Wikimedia Just a tad late for a 4th of July barbeque, Dr. Mark Post of the University of Maastricht is officially set to debut his infamous and awesome...
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Enjoy the Experience: The Strange Vibes of Long Forgotten, Self-Released Records
I used to experience a specific sort of melancholy while flipping through records at the record store. There was just so much stuff, just moldering there. Somehow seeing the covers made it worse, since...
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New Hovercraft Golf Cart to Make World's Laziest Sport Even Lazier
Image: Bubba Hover This is how the road to WALL-E levels of post-apocalyptic laziness begins. Not with a bang, nor a whimper, but with a hovercraft pod someone invented so golfers can spend less time...
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This Is What Record Heat in Death Valley Looks Like from Space
Image via Robert Simmon/Earth Observatory On June 30, air temperatures in Death Valley National Park in California peaked at a skin-scorching 129° Fahrenheit. That unofficially matched the US record...
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This Game Is Probably the Closest You'll Get to Visiting Mars
Mars! We’re bewitched by it. What it is like? Is there life? When can we go there? Will there be aliens? Since most of us will probably never get to explore Mars in real life, a new survival videogame...
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Brightening Clouds Could Save Coral Reefs
Photo: Wikipedia Trying to manipulate the reflectivity of the clouds over large areas to try cooling the climate is not without serious risks. By nearly every single assessment, save those by...
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Meet the Late Dr. Robert White, Who Transplanted the First Monkey Head
Part 1 Back in 2009, Motherboard met up with Dr. Robert White, the neurosurgeon behind the infamous “monkey head transplant” experiment of the 1970s. In what turned out to be his last ever interview,...
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A New Drone Will Hunt for Missing Skiers in the Alps
Photo via Delta Drone Roll over, Beethoven; a company in France has specially designed a drone to search and rescue wayward skiers in the Alps and elsewhere. For much of the public, the word “drone”...
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Why We Can Never Look Away From 'Catastrophe'
We love a good disaster. OK, maybe not love. But time and again we're drawn to not look away. Just look at the recent Asiana passenger plane crash in San Francisco. Fatal plane crashes are beyond rare,...
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How to Immerse Yourself in "Good" Internet Tracking
All the recent news about Internet surveillance and tracking technology freaks a lot of people out, and I get that. But it could also be kind of cool. Take Immersion, for example. Immersion is a new...
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The Long Tail of Roswell: A Brief History of Our Most Famous Aliens
Image: Wikimedia On the 66th Anniversary of the Roswell ncident, Google featured an interactive doodle of an alien spaceship flying through the sky—a playful ode to the first reported UFO landing in...
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Nanoparticle Drug Patches Will Deliver Cancer Treatment Without Needles
Dislike needles pumping fluids into your body? Fear not, for student researchers at the University of York are hard at work making syringe injections a thing of the past. Atif Syed and Zakareya...
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Despite Embargoes, "Terrorist States" Are Still Using American Surveillance...
Syrians protesting Bashar al-Assad, via Flickr While Americans fret over the US government spying on its citizens in the name of fighting terrorism, the very terrorist regimes the feds are trying to...
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There's So Much Plastic in the Oceans It's Been Called a New Ecosystem
Photo: Ralph Hockens/Flickr Plastic is now the foremost form of marine pollution—perhaps not surprising to readers considering the publicity that the great Pacific garbage patch has received, as well...
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The CIA Let the 9/11 Mastermind Design a Vacuum Cleaner While in Secret Prison
Here comes a simply absurd tale in the CIA's law-skirting legacy of secrecy: to stave off boredom while in secret detention, the CIA let Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the guy who masterminded 9/11, to design...
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Our Solar System Has a Tail
Image via NASA. Not like the tail monkeys use to scale trees. This one, called the heliotail, consists of solar wind, or particles released by the sun, and is estimated to be 93 billion miles long. As...
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A Federal Court Approved Chevron's Request for Activists' Data
Image: Flickr It’s not just the NSA collecting your data. Now corporations are getting in on the game as well. Oil giant Chevron just subpoenaed Google, Yahoo and Microsoft for the metadata of over 100...
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How (and When) to Cauterize a Wound
Branding isn't cauterization, but you get the idea. Via Mary Harrsch/Flickr Being an adult is hard. And in our vast techno-digital landscape, there are millions of screaming voices, but too few voices...
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Desert Bus, the Most Legendarily Terrible Game Ever, Is Now Thriving
Desert Bus was created by American illusionists Penn and Teller in 1995 for the Sega CD, devised as an intentionally bad video game that was to "work as a satire against the anti-video-game lobby"...
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Meet Lithium, the Future's Most Important Mineral
Salar De Uyuni, Bolivia Image: Flickr cc Rock On is a weekly column about the mysterious minerals, metals, and rocks which make up the world in which we live. We look at the history, economics,...
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