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Magnetic Tape Is Still Our Best Hope of Preserving Human History
Via Flickr The future of human history has a pretty ironic problem. While scientific and cultural information about the Earth and human civilization is being pumped out at exponential rates, we've yet...
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Americans Want to Legalize Weed Because They're So Bummed Out
Photo via Flickr/CC. The president's approval rating keeps on slipping. Congressional approval ratings have hit an all-time low. The economy's been worse, though it's still limping out of the hole....
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Are Chimps People? A Major Animal Rights Lawsuit Says Yes
A chimpanzee, but not Tommy, via Valentina Storti/Flickr In case you can’t tell from the name, the Nonhuman Rights Project is treading uncharted waters. The organization’s mission is “to change the...
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This Could Be the Last Tax-Free Cyber Monday
Photo via Flickr Get it while the getting's good, ye online shoppers: This could be the last Cyber Monday without an internet sales tax. In a blow to the online retail giants, the Supreme Court ruled...
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The Dream of Wrapping the Moon in Solar Panels to Power the Earth Orbits On
Image via Shimizu One nice thing about the internet is that grand, headline-making ideas are made reasonably permanent: they forever orbit our augmented consciousness as optimistic little data packets...
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Now Even the Vatican Library Is Digitizing Books
via the Bodleian Library If you’ve been working on cracking the Da Vinci Code for the last decade, but still feel like you need to visit the Vatican to check out some dusty Greek parchments, the...
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Not Coming Soon: The Pill for Men
Image via Flickr/Sarah C A male contraceptive pill might be more and more feasible, but don’t expect to see it in pharmacies any time soon. A study published yesterday in the scientific journal PNAS...
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The Evolution of Animal-Inspired Robots
Cheetah-cub is a super-fast mammal-like quadruped robot. Image via Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL Robots might already be able to fight wars, make art, and win at rock-paper -scissors, but they’ve got a...
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After 70 Years, the Search for Japan's Lost Mega-Submarine Is Over
Japanese supersub I-400 emerges from the deep A Japanese super submarine has been found lurking in the deep—right where American forces scuttled it nearly 70 years ago. On August 1, a team of...
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The UN Just Launched Spy Drones for the First Time
Photo via Flickr/CC. This morning, peacekeepers with the United Nations spun up a pair of mid-sized unmanned surveillance aircraft from Goma, eastern Congo's second largest city. It marks the first...
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Can a High-Tech Fertility Clinic Save the World's Largest Superorganism?
Image: Flickr The world's largest superorganism is probably Australia's Great Barrier Reef. It's a vast conglomeration of different organisms, and, at 1,600 miles long, it's certainly the planet's...
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How Koalas Became the Barry Whites of the Mammal World
Oh, to live a koala's life. Via cafuego/Flickr They're cute, they're fuzzy, and their surprisingly deep, dulcet tones are key to gettin' it on. I'm talking about male koalas, whose mating calls are far...
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An App to Catch Neo-Nazis by the Music They Listen To
Image via Flickr/Jonanamary German police are considering using a Shazam-like app to detect far-right songs being played at rallies or in clubs. It's part of an effort to clamp down on neo-Nazis trying...
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Humans Are Not at the Top of the Food Chain
Carnivores dining on a carcass. Image via Wikipedia. We humans love to believe that we are top-of-the-food chain predators. We chow down on our steaks and meat-laden sandwiches with the sort of aplomb...
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How Microplastic Is Poisoning the Ocean Ecosystem
Lugworms via Wikimedia Commons Seabirds found filled with fishing lines, sea turtles choking on discarded shopping bags, and a plastic soup spreading out bigger than Texas in the Pacific are among the...
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No, Our Brains Aren't Hardwired According to Gender Stereotypes
Image via the study About the last thing 21st-century women still struggling to overcome the limitations of pervasive gender roles need is scientific proof backing those stereotypes up. But that's what...
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What the Future of Looking for Birds Sounds Like
Nelson's sparrow, via Flickr/CC. So there you are in the woods, birding. You're looking out for a particular species—the Nelson's sparrow, say. You wait around, and wait around. Nothing. Then you...
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There Are No Substitutes for the Metals in Your Smartphone
Photo via Dillon K./Flickr Our high-tech habits depend upon an increasingly complex supply chain of metals, a good number of which are in limited supply. And as our human population grows and becomes...
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Introducing Designer Babies, Sperm Edition
Photo via Flickr To a certain extent, people already custom-make their offspring. At the most basic biological, or even subconscious level, we choose our mates based on who will serve up the...
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Drone Trains Won't Stop Wrecks
NTSBgov If you were trying to crash a train, as in, intentionally throw it off the tracks and kill people, pretty much your only option would have been to do what Metro-North engineer William...
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