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Apple Maps Directed Cars Right Across an Airplane Runway
Image: Wikimedia Ah, Apple Maps, one of the most abhorred apps ever. A year after Apple infamously switched the default maps app on the iPhone from Google to its own way worse version, the map is still...
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The Deadly Valley Fever Epidemic Is Getting Worse in the American Southwest
The dust storms that frequent the Southwest are a common exposure vector for the fungus that causes valley fever. Via marksontok/Flickr When Pauline moved to Arizona with her husband, the couple was...
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The Week the Internet Trolled the Internet's Comment Trolls
Photo: Flickr/CC Trolls run the internet. It's pretty much a fact. We've known this for a long time. Love them or hate them, the unruly, based, largely anonymous commenting masses keep the gears of...
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This Galaxy Is 15,000 Times More Dense Than the Milky Way
NASA astronomers say they have discovered what may be the densest galaxy in our tiny corner of the universe. Known as M60-UCD1, it's an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy sitting approximately 54 million...
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NASA's New FINDER Scans for Breathing Bodies in Disaster Rubble
Video via NASA The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami two years ago killed several thousand people, and left close to few thousand missing. The numbers of dislocated people felt, to anyone watching, an...
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The World's First Surfboard Made from Mushrooms Is Almost Ready to Get Pitted
Unless you're riding a wooden surfboard, there's no getting around the fact that the deck under your feet is probably an environmental nightmare. Sure, there are more environmentally friendly...
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Tamarins in the Central Park Zoo Are the First Monkeys to Be Caught Whispering
Cotton-top tamarins via wonderferret/Flickr A supervisor at the Central Park Zoo was experiencing something familiar—when he walked into a room, voices became hushed—but it wasn’t his coworkers who...
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BlackBerry's Best Hope Lies in Building the Anti-Surveillance Smartphone
Blackberry z10, via Flickr On Monday, BlackBerry reported it would be making the move back to private ownership through a consortium led by Fairfax Financial. The news followed hot on the heels of last...
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Are Governments Getting Trigger-Happy with the Internet Kill Switch?
Photo of Sudan President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir via Wikimedia This afternoon, three Internet monitoring companies confirmed reports that Sudan abruptly cut itself off from the World Wide Web....
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China's High-Speed Rail Now Moves Twice as Many Passengers as Its Airline...
Image: Wikimedia Five years ago, China didn't have a high-speed rail at all. Now tickets to ride on its network of ultra-fast trains routinely sell out, even though they leave every five minutes, and...
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Ecologically Fair Pricing Isn't the Magic Wand Environmentalists Think It Is
Photo: Marine Photo Bank/Flickr When it comes to ecological economics, Herman Daly is pretty much the man. So when he takes a swipe at one of the central tenets of current green thinking, the effect...
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The Spitzer Space Telescope Has Been Reborn as an Exoplanet Hunter
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. via It’s been months since NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, the exoplanet hunter, lost its ability to lock on to distant stars and find planets orbiting around them. But...
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Atlantis May've Sunk But the Silk Road Is Still Booming
Photo: Flickr/CC. Hey, remember Atlantis? The deep web's newest, boastful drug Mecca that was basically the Facebook of virtual black markets? Well it's closed up shop. Done for. Gone before it really...
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Sales of Siberian Tiger Parts on Russia's Internet Show Poaching Remains a...
A poached Amur tiger found during a Zoological Society of London anti-poaching campaign Deep in Russia's Far East lives the Amur tiger, the largest cat in the world. Also known as the Siberian tiger...
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When Did the Petro-State Become Cool Again?
Oil extraction from tar sands has reshaped large swathes of Alberta. Via Dru Oja Jay/Flickr Did I miss something? When did the petro-state become a cool way to run a nation again? There was a brief...
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Let There Be One Molecule of Light
A seperate US Air Force laser study, via Wikimedia Commons Every claim of Star Wars becoming reality warrants my full attention, so when Harvard and MIT researchers say, “It's not an in-apt analogy to...
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This App Could Get You Kidnapped
The app bubble has somehow yet to burst and everyday more start-ups emerge hawking their mobile services. Some of these are useful, like the crowd-sourced navigation tool Waze and the language...
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Google Is Still the Copyright Lobby's Favorite Anti-Piracy Punching Bag
When you see millions of dollars slipping out of your grasp, it can make you want to punch someone. Anyone. Even if it's not actually the person responsible for your dwindling cash. In the case of Big...
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Deep Parts of the Greenland Sea Are Warming 10 Times Faster Than the Entire...
Photo: Rita Willaert/Flickr Considering the mainstream media brouhaha over what Climate Progress's Joe Romm has dubbed the "faux pause" in global warming, it's important to note that 90 percent of...
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Al Gore Explains Why Civilization Might Not Survive the Next 100 Years
Al Gore is worried about the future. We've reached a point, he says, where the very survival of our civilization is at risk. But he's optimistic that we can turn things around, too. Motherboard sat...
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