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What It Means That Monsanto Will Stop Pushing GMOs in Europe
Protestors via Karen Eliot/Creative Commons If you didn't catch the news on Thursday: Monsanto, the much-reviled transnational agriculture consort, will cease its attempts to bring more genetically...
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Jamie Lidell On Perfecting His Cyborg Soul Music, Prince, and Nashville Futures
It's hard to categorize Jamie Lidell's sound. An eclectic amalgamation of contemporary techno, dance and house influences mix with soul, funk, and an undying love for Prince that Lidell has carried...
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Comic-Con Day One: A Cosplay Traffic Jam On the Hunt for Soft Carpet
Everyone at Comic Con mentions feeling overwhelmed, especially if it's their first time. And how can anyone reasonably prepare to not be overwhelmed by the size and spectacle of it all? Complacency...
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Self-Flying Planes? They Don't Actually Exist
The Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 at San Fransisco. via Airmanship has changed since the days when barnstorming pilots and wing walkers ruled the skies. Modern cockpits are highly automated, and knowing...
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An Accidental Discovery Might Have Just Made Hydrogen Cars Affordable
Mustang via John Lloyd/Creative Commons The idea of fuel celsl as a way to generate power predates cars and even the most general feat of constant electric current. William Grove first demonstrated the...
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Comic-Con Night One: Yes, Comic Fanatics Party Too
The days in San Diego can get kind of long and tiring with all there is to see and do around the convention. However, it's important to keep some gas in the tank for once the sun begins to set. The...
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The World's Most Endangered Big Cat Could Go Extinct Because of Climate Change
Photo: WWF Massive investment efforts might not be enough to save the world's most endangered big cat. Blame climate change: According to a new study out of the University of Copenhagen, climate change...
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An Interview with @PTCruiserUSA, One of Twitter's Strangest Users
There's nothing that makes a whole lot of sense about @PTCruiserUSA. Even by Twitter standards. In defiance of sense and easy answers, this anonymous account has somehow garnered nearly 20,000...
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China Just Broke Ground on World's Next Tallest Skyscraper, and It Aims to...
Just as the weekend took off, so did the world's next tallest skyscraper. In China's 25th biggest city, Changsha, Hunan, ground has ambitiously been broken. In just the next seven months, Broad...
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A New Technique to Strip the Plastic Film Off Trash Will Let Us Recycle...
Image via Wikimedia Commons. Disposable coffee cups are confusing. No one ever seems quite sure if they belong in recycling, compost, or trash. And really, it all depends on the materials involved and...
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Is This the Man That Hacked Apple's Developer Site?
The notoriously tight-lipped Apple saw its fair share of controversy this weekend, when the company's developer center was hacked, causing the website to go down for four days. The developer site,...
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These New Biodegradable Drones Look Just Like Paper Airplanes
The "Polyplane" UAV via University of Queensland In fifth grade I had to stay after school and chat with my teacher, who had caught me tossing a meticulously crafted Falcon-style paper airplane I made...
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Bombing the Great Barrier Reef Isn't Even the Worst Thing the Navy Has Done...
In the on-going war on Mother Earth, the US Navy is at least trying to negotiate a treaty, attempting to wean the fleet off of oil and onto biofuels. But even those good intentions don’t look like much...
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Here's What Wi-Fi Would Look Like If We Could See It
Images via Nickolay Lamm Wi-fi. It's all around us, quietly and invisibly powering our access to the world's information. But few of us have a sense of what wi-fi actually is, let alone what it would...
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Fly Girls (and Boys): 'The Fly Room' Opens Up a Pioneering DNA Lab in Film...
In "The Fly Room," a young Betsey Bridges (Zoe Brooks) in the lab where her dad explored DNA Back on the campaign trail in 2008, Sarah Palin made a quip about the need to cut earmarked spending for pet...
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Dolphins Give Each Other Names, Are Probably Plotting Something
Just two dolphins, probably talking smack about you. Photo: Flickr/Jason Pratt When a bottlenose dolphin sees a shark is about to attack its friend, he or she probably says something like "Hey,...
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An Alien Fleet of Self-Replicating Probes Could Have Already Scoured the...
GIF by Daniel Stuckey via YouTube The Fermi Paradox is a perplexing one, even as exotic-sounding all-caps paradoxes go. Since the probability that alien life exists out there in some far corner of the...
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The Brain's "Love Hormone" Forms Social Bonds and Preserves Traumatic Memories
Photo via Murakami_Reader/Flickr Oxytocin, also known as the “love molecule,” is an appropriately many splendored thing. The naturally occurring brain chemical helps form sexual arousal, bonds between...
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Wikipedia Isn’t Quite as Sexist as Everyone Thinks
Wikipedians are a bunch of misogynistic brogrammer-types with too much time on their hands and a decidedly male preoccupation with facts and science—right? Wrong. At least, mostly wrong. The...
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Researchers Can Stop and Start Genetic Transcription in a Flash
Photo via Wikimedia Commons It's been ten years since the Human Genome Project announced that it successfully sequenced the human genome, but there is still much to be learned about how our 20,000...
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