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Giving Feral Cats Vasectomies Works Better Than Neutering Them
Photo: Flickr/Sara Golemon Feral cat colonies: They're the worst, right? They spread mind-altering parasites, help kill off small mammals and birds by the billion, and are the inspiration for sub-par...
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Obesity in America Is Three Times More Deadly Than We Thought
Photo: Ed Yourdon/Flickr The massively unhealthy food, urban development, advertising, and healthcare system the United States has created over the past several decades leading to the obesity epidemic...
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The Long Tail of Soylent Green
Image: Soylent Green Most of the future food that gets doled out in our dystopias tend to be pretty similar: tasteless tablets, green gunk, milky-grey mushes. Part of the reason that the new wave of...
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How Data Visualizations Are Making Public Transportation Beautiful
Bruno Imbrizi's "experiment 7." Whether public transportation is the bane of your existence, a necessary evil, or your favorite part of modern infrastructure, we all can agree that, at the very least,...
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The Hyperloop Got the Taiwanese Animation Treatment, Is Now a Relevant News...
I'm sorry if this offends all you news junkies out there, but I have trouble believing that a breaking "storyline" is important until it's been packaged with cartoons and a font palette ripped from...
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The Guy Who Cycled Naked Across Part of the US
Somewhere in Nevada, via Facebook. Rob Greenfield is self-proclaimed adventurer. He has spent his life traveling. In college, he studied abroad five times—not just to your typical European tourist...
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"Party at the NSA": YACHT's Got Your Paranoid End-of-the-Summer Jam
The NSA is watching everything we do online, so we might as well party with them. So muse the future-pop maestros at YACHT in their fantastically goofball paranoid dance jam, 'Party at the NSA'. No,...
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The Largest Owl in the World Is One Impressive Bird, But They're Disappearing
Looks like we've got a badass over here. Blakiston's fish owl, the largest owl in the world, makes its home in old growth forests surrounding streams and rivers in Russia's Far East, east China, and...
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Soda Makes Five-Year-Olds Break Your Stuff, Science Finds
When the US military tested PCP on volunteers in 1984, "some subjects became irritable, argumentative or negative under the conditions of social stress and demanding tasks." Now, a study published by...
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Edward Teller, the Real Dr. Strangelove, Never Met a Thermonuclear Bomb He...
Edward Teller dreamed of nuclear devices that were bigger, smaller, faster, underground, powering airplanes and rockets, in orbit, on the moon, and always more of them. He would be more vilified than...
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These Images Show the Harsh Reality of NYC's Income Inequality
Wealth distribution throughout Manhattan These images could have changed the sound of the viral tune of New York. You know, the one playing in every Forever 21 in which Alicia Keys croons about New...
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Let's Get Even More Unreal About Mass Transit
Concept design for Elon Musk's Hyperloop transportation system Only 42 years young, visionary extraordinaire Elon Musk has presented the world with a handful of era-defining products and services. You...
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Extreme Heat Waves Are Now Unstoppable
Photo: Bev Sykes/Flickr Over the coming decades extreme heat waves will only increase in frequency, thanks to all the greenhouse gas emissions we've already spewed into the atmosphere. In fact, a new...
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The Key To Making More Efficient Biofuels Is Taking the Wood Out of Wood
Here’s the problem with using wood as a biofuel: it’s wood. That’s it, basically. The thing we associate with wood being wood, rigidity, is what makes trees poor materials for use in ethanol...
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Another Deadly Mosquito-Borne Disease Rises From the Swamps
Triple E has a nice “Captain Trips” ring to it. A kinda friendly term for a super-deadly illness. Fortunately, Triple E, also known as Eastern equine encephalitis, doesn’t quite boast a 99.4 percent...
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Orson Scott Card Is Just Trolling Us Now
Welcome to a special Hatin’ on Obama edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of 1 to RACIST, with “1” being the least racist and “RACIST” being the most racist. - I get...
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The Kepler Space Telescope's Planet-Hunting Days Are Over, But It's Been A...
via Wikimedia NASA has finally called it. Months after the Kepler Space Telescope lost a second reaction wheel—and after months of trying to find a way to bring it back online—the space agency has...
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Considering Age and Time in the Shade of Charleston's 500-Year-Old Angel Oak
Top image: Greg Walters/Creative Commons. All other photos by Alishea Galvin. This summer Motherboard contributor Alicia Puglionesi is traveling around the United States visiting the oldest plants in...
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Rising Seas Are Set To Cost Earth's Cities $1 Trillion Before 2050
A trillion dollars? Hell, that’s barely the cost of one Iraq war. Though, at the same time, a trillion dollars is also the yearly GDP of the United States 60 times over. So it’s kind of how you look at...
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Ecuador Called the World's Bluff, Will Drill in the Amazon
A scarlet macaw near Rio Tiputini in Yasuni National Park. Via Geoff Gallice/Flickr "The world has failed us." With those words, Rafael Correa, Ecuador's president and the man who has been put in...
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