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Scientists Stuck Dinosaur Models in a Wind Tunnel to Better Understand Early...
Video showing the Microraptor model. Credit: University of Southampton. The origin of avian flight has long been a mystery. While several possible models exist to explain the evolutionary trajectory...
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Elon Musk Says Self-Driving Teslas Are Three Years Away
Tesla's Model X crossover, to be released next year, could be a candidate for autopilot technology in 2016. Via Tesla Motors We may not have hoverboards, but never fear, future lovers: Self-driving...
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Why Haven't Lasers Replaced the NFL’s First Down Markers?
The NFL is a conservative organization, and like most massive sports leagues, it's fairly adverse to change. So an idea like using lasers to project a visible first down line across the playing...
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This Is Your Brain on a Financial Bubble
Photo by David Blackwell At this point, listening to politicians and pundits place blame on each other for the last half-decade of financial ruin has become sickening. What if there was more to the...
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How Tidal Sail Generators Could Be More Efficient
If we want a future without fossil fuels, we can either build a ton of nuclear plants, hope for some as-yet undiscovered breakthrough, or increase our efforts to utilize renewable energy sources in...
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Are Soldiers Getting Too Emotionally Attached to War Robots?
US sailors and soldiers watch the iRobot PackBot 510 pick up a cup, via Wikimedia The US military is still a far cry from Star Wars' Rebel Alliance, but robots are becoming increasingly crucial on the...
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Blue Whale Earwax Offers a Surprisingly Good Record of Pollution
It's hard to get a whole blue whale in a single frame. Via the NOAA Humans have steadily pumped the oceans full of pollution, and bioaccumulation of chemicals is a problem that threatens the health of...
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Destroying Nature Has Made These Nations More Vulnerable to Climate Change
Image: Nature Climate Change There's a longstanding truism about this warming world of ours: Climate change will perversely do the most damage to those most vulnerable. Poorer countries in the global...
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What Is the Best Animal to Strap a GoPro To?
This morning I watched a video so beautiful and so perfect in its essence and its execution that I'm not sure I even need eyeballs anymore. Somewhere in southeastern France, a truly brilliant...
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Higher Rates of Gun Ownership Don't Correlate to Less Crime
At this point, it feels like every permutation of the debate on gun control has happened. After each tragedy, both sides drag out talking points, shout, and nothing changes. But a new study this week...
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The UN High Commissioner Says Privacy Is a Human Right
Grumpy cat-themed anti-NSA sign, via Flickr A significant development in the debate over the human right to privacy and freedom from surveillance recently occurred at the United Nations. Navi Pillay, a...
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Your Parents Hate Your Boyfriend Because of Evolution
Image via striatic on Flickr My parents never cared who I dated. Sure, they appreciated good manners and general social adroitness, but ultimately, as long as the dude was good to me, they were...
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Scientists Just Divided the Sense of Smell Into 10 Types
Photo via Flickr / CC. Science is all about trying to explain and understand the apparent chaos in the world, and a big part of that is breaking things down into categories. We humans love categories....
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Let's Apply Network Analysis to Medicine
Photo via Flickr / CC. The translation process that makes scientific research tangible to the medical field takes a long-ass time. In many industries, actually, the social engineering required to...
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Life on Earth Probably Has About 1.75 Billion Years Left
What the Earth might look like when the Sun enters its red giant phase, via Wikimedia Commons Like any good mother, at some point the good Earth isn’t going to support us anymore. People—and indeed all...
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The Best Way to Combat Piracy Is to Make Movies Easier to Watch
Star Wars isn't on Netflix Instant, Blockbuster's dead, and DVDs take a week in the mail. But unlicensed streaming is just a click away. The solution obvious: make your own, better streaming. Have you...
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Hiroshi Yamauchi, Who Made Nintendo a Household Name, Has Died at 85
Image via NintendoLife. Hiroshi Yamauchi, former president of Nintendo, died in Japan this morning. Yamauchi, who succeeded his grandfather, Sekiryo Kaneda (Yamauchi), was the last of the Yamauchi...
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First Colorado Was on Fire, Then It Flooded, Now It's Fracked
Image: Theresa Gilbert, Weld Air & Water Colorado was just drowned in epic flooding—commentators took to calling it "biblical"—killing eight people, forcing 10,000 to evacuate, and destroying or...
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Spotify Is Sort of Bringing Back ‘Behind the Music'
Spotify just upped the ante in the digital music game, though the hand isn’t won yet. The streaming service announced it will now offer original multimedia documentary series about classic moments in...
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Oh Thank Heavens: Facebook Likes Are Protected Speech
The internet is a wonderland of brilliant thought and discussion, albeit one that's frequently smothered under a vast blanket of pithy speech and pointless provocation or it simply drowned out by...
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