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Dogs Love Robots, Prefer Humans
Image credit: Eniko Kubinyi. Here’s a little bit of charming science for your Friday afternoon: researchers recently spent some time forcing dogs and robots to hang out together, in order to better...
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The One Direction Dog Killer Is a Hoax
Image via Twitter The crazed One Direction fan that apparently killed her chihuaha because the band wouldn’t follow her back on Twitter is clearly trolling. Since yesterday, outlets like Fox News,...
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When TV Ads Dare to Depict a Grim Future
As a rule, advertisers shy away from creating a bleak future for people to imagine consuming their products in—the ad world we know is one of shiny happy people, canned slogans, and three out of four...
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Science Says We Actually Love the Sound of Our Own Voice
Image via Flickr Complaining about things to win "Likes" and "Favs" is the crux of today's online media companies. Recently, a website well-known for its list articles was parsing on things that "media...
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Pedro Reyes Reclaims Guns and Turns Them Into Musical Instruments
Pedro Reyes frequently travels through dangerous territories. Not just creatively: pushing the boundaries of how we appropriate materials for use in artistic works, but also literally. Frequently...
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How To Live Forever By Being Mostly Dead
Image: Mark A. Wilson/Wikimedia This summer Motherboard contributor Alicia Puglionesi is traveling around the United States visiting the oldest plants in the country. Her thoughts are collected...
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Earth Isn't So Much Wet As It Is Just Kinda Damp
Image: Kai Schreiber/Creative Commons Earth gets a lot of credit as a waterworld. Maybe not so much as a fresh waterworld, but we nonetheless live on a blue planet even if we can't drink all of it...
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Europe Moves To Drastically Cut Crop-Based Biofuels
Image: Jess Johnson/Creative Commons Usually this is a pretty annoying debate tactic when it comes to science or otherwise: but look at Europe. Mainly, I'm thinking of transgenic organisms, which have...
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Did the Strength of Gravity Just Change?
If you must—absolutely must—search for traces of god in the universe, a great place to start is with its constants. There are several absolutely crucial values for forces, masses, and ratios that hold...
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Evangelicals Are Resurrecting America's Dead Diseases with Vaccine Paranoia
The Cow-Pock—or—the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation by James Gilray, 1802. Image via I’ve never really understood the fear of vaccines, mostly because there's no real, hard evidence linking...
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Hunting Earth's Mystery Lightning From the International Space Station
A Red Sprite taken from the ISS, via Wikimedia For astronauts aboard the International Space Station, the view of the Earth isn’t just space age eye candy. It’s a unique perspective from which they can...
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Researchers Identify a 'Cosmic Factory' for the Building Blocks of Life
Image: Not-actually-a-comet by Steve Jurvetson/CC A couple of weeks ago I made the drive from southwestern Colorado to Washington state. If you’ve never done this particular route, it involves...
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The Fox Song Leads to Existential Crises Among Deep-Thinking YouTube Users
In the two weeks since the Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis’ song “The Fox,” which asks what sound the vulpine makes, went viral, some Internet citizens have had metaphysical break-downs in the YouTube...
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RECENT HISTORY: The Week the iPhone Found a Diplomatic Solution
Apple by Sharon Pruitt/Creative Commons Each week, Motherboard turns back to examine its recent history. Don't understand the Syrian chemical weapons crisis? You could read some long but still somehow...
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Gaze Into These Supercell Storms and Be Awed
The photos below come courtesy of Slovenian weather researcher and storm chaser Marko Korosec. His day job is managing a road weather information system for Slovenia's main highway company, and he also...
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The NSA Spied on Credit Cards and Bank Transactions
Photo: Shelly Munkberg/Flickr The huge NSA spying scandals this year have prompted surprisingly little action, even as the government has continually proved to be misrepresenting the scope of the...
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We Watched the Ghosts of Google Street View Come to Life
Photo: Derek Mead Paolo Cirio brings ghosts to life. At least, he pulls them out of their eternal resting places in the digital expanse of Google Street View and paints them into three-dimensional...
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Why Did FEMA Ground a Flood-Mapping Drone In Colorado?
Early Saturday morning, Chris Miser was headed to the mountain town of Lyons, Colorado, to get a bird's-eye view of the devastation from recent and historic flooding. Miser, who owns Falcon UAV, a...
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Sci-Fi Legend Norman Spinrad on the NSA, Edward Snowden, and the Repression...
The cover of Spinrad's Iron Dream People typically peg New Wave science fiction's inception to Britain, where in 1964 Michael Moorcock became editor of Amazing Worlds. In America, Harlan Ellison's 1967...
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The First Attempted Mission to Jupiter's Moon Has Entered Phase 1
If you’ve been looking to get into research and development for a space program, but NASA wouldn’t give your resume a second look, today’s your lucky day. If you’re interested in helping to send human...
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