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Look at These Newborn Sumatran Tiger Cubs
Courtesy the National Zoo The National Zoo is on a hot streak of endangered species births lately, with an extremely rare wild horse born a few weeks ago and now a pair of critically endangered...
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Here's What $5 Million Worth of Ivory, Rhino Horn, and Leopard Pelts Looks Like
All photos via Hong Kong customs There have been a few high-profile wildlife trafficking busts recently, including the arrest of a ivory kingpin in Togo. But a seizure in Hong Kong might just take the...
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Forensics Experts Can Identify Lipstick Brands with Lasers
Photo via M Glasgow/Flickr In what might be described as the most film-noir study of all time, forensic scientists have figured out how to identify the brand of lipstick found smeared at a crime scene,...
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A Former NSA Chief Thinks Privacy and Free Information Activists Are...
Official CIA portrait of Michael Hayden, via Wikimedia Commons While people are fixated on former NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden's Tuesday comments that the NSA's sifting through metadata is “really...
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PayPal's Co-Founder Made an App That Predicts Pregnancy
Photo via Flickr / CC. How many of you have watched news coverage of the royal baby for the last nine months? Between the little prince of Cambridge and KimYe’s North Star, the world has been...
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Twitter Knows Which Restaurants Are Getting People Sick
The nEmesis system geolocates Tweets and analyzes them to see who's suffering from a food borne disease, via If taking time in the middle of a bout of food poisoning to update your Twitter followers...
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With the Googleburger and Soylent, Silicon Valley Is Officially on a Quest...
Image: Cultured Beef On August 4th, the first lab-grown burger was subjected to a taste-test. The prognosis? "Not unpleasant." Needs salt, maybe cheese. The same day, Google's Sergey Brin was revealed...
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Why Car Crashes Don't Spike When Cell Phone Calls Do
Photo via Flickr / CC. It’s pretty much conventional wisdom at this point that talking on your cell phone and driving is bad. Like, drunk driving bad. So cities and states are legislating accordingly...
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The Best Ways to Visualize the Internet in Real-Time
One Second on the Internet attempts to quantify our relationship to the Internet via Facebook likes, Reddit votes, and emails, among other variables. This doesn’t sound all that interesting—it’s not...
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Thousands of Grateful Netizens Are Sending Edward Snowden Virtual Thank You...
All photos via Fight for the Future The digital rights group Fight for the Future just launched a campaign to encourage people to say “thank you” to Edward Snowden for exposing how the NSA has been...
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An Ode to VidCon, Where YouTube Groupies Meet Their Heroes
VidCon, the unofficial YouTuber’s conference, is a weird mix of fans, industry people, grumpy business men, squealing little girls, and YouTube stars themselves. In its fourth year of existence,...
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Snowden's Email Provider Goes Dark
Image: Lavabit Ladar Levinson, founder of Lavabit, an alternative email provider, would rather shut his service down than hand over email information to the government. Apparently, NSA whistleblower...
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The Five Ways Conservative Media Keep Trying to Trick Us About Climate Change
Photo via Flickr / CC. For some reason, a media-analysis study that came out back in April has been getting a lot of attention over the past few days. Originaly published in the journal Public...
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London's New Recycling Bins Will Be Watching Every Step You Take
Image via Renew London Recycling bins in the City of London know what you’re doing. They are absorbing information about you through your smartphone and then using that data to advertise to you on your...
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Have Researchers Finally Developed a Malaria Vaccine That Won't Fail?
U.S. Army volunteers administer a malaria vaccine clinical trial in 2010. Photo: U.S. Army Time after time, the world has gotten its hopes up as scientists have suggested they've been close to...
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Is New York City Ready for Digital Voting?
Ben Kallos, candidate for New York City Council's fifth district, at a Twitter wall at his campaign opening. Photo courtesy Kallos for Council It’s no secret that conventional political participation...
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The US Government Killed Three Secure Email Services This Week
NSA chief General Keith Alexander (center, four stars) joins others at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new computing facility at Fort Meade in May. Via the NSA Yesterday, the encrypted email service...
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This Guy Bootstrapped an Insane Doc on Cartel Panga Boats
Photo: Derren Ohanian. A few years back, Motherboard went inside Colombia's coke-smuggling submarines to try and wrap our heads around the cutting-edge of drug running. In the unending quest for money...
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Why You Should Learn to Play a Musical Instrument
Let's be honest: This is the number one reason you should start playing music. Being an adult is hard. And in our vast techno-digital landscape, there are millions of screaming voices, but too few...
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Coal Burning Is Up 50 Percent Worldwide, and It's Killing More People Than Ever
Image: Flickr There's a strong case to be made that coal is humankind's thorniest problem. It's the chief source of the world's energy—it currently keeps the lights on in 40 percent of the world—and...
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