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Spinning Solar Cones Are the Future of Power
When we imagine what will power human civilization in the future, say, 100 years down the line or beyond, we tend to go big and utopian—gleaming fusion power, thorium nuke plants, sparkling solar...
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Not Even BlackBerry Can Save BlackBerry Now
BlackBerry's new Z10, also known as its Hail Mary. Some people are calling today the most important day in BlackBerry's company history. Or, in The New York Times's view of things, it's at least the...
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Swim Through the Beauty of Mangrove Forests in the Bahamas
Mangrove forests are some of the most crucial ecosystems on Earth. They provide a buffer zone from heavy waves and storm action, which is important for inhabitants on land as well as the fish and...
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Watch This Brazilian Soccer Drone Go Haywire
(via) Brazil just can't catch a break. Earlier this week a freak venue fire in the southern town of Santa Maria killed over 200 teenagers, and now this: A small hexacopter drone goes haywire at...
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How Deer Antler Spray, Which Ray Lewis Denies Using, Actually Works
This is what Ray Lewis looks like when you ask him about deer antlers. Image credit: Matthew Emmons/USA TODAY Sports via ESPN If you want to annoy Ray Lewis right now (and I'd be careful about that),...
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Our Rovers Have Only Explored About 110 Miles of the Moon and Mars Combined
As if we needed any reminder that we’ve barely scratched the interplanetary surface in studying Mars and the moon. Space.com assembled an infographic that displays the total distance traveled by the...
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What's Up with All the Rocket Launchers Showing Up at Gun Buyback Events?
Do you keep a rocket launcher at home? Probably not, because rocket launchers are built for war — see above — and last I checked, the United States was not being invaded by North Koreans or Iranians...
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Why Finland Has the Most Freedom of Press on the Planet
Finland is officially home to the freest press in all the land, according to Reporters Without Borders. The group's Press Freedom Index 2013 states, “For the third year running, Finland has...
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The Bacterial Apocalypse Is Coming
A scanning electron micrograph of MRSA, via Public Health Image Library Over the past 60 years, human beings haven’t been good stewards of their own environment and technological innovations. The...
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NASA's New Mining Bot Will Scrape Water from the Moon
If water is the key to life on Earth, it's doubly so if we want to survive in space. Water's crucial for our own human needs, and is also an excellent starting point for rocket fuel, but it's also...
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Ken Burns Effect on GIFs: Grizzly Bear's 'Gun-Shy'
At first sight, Grizzly Bear's latest video, "Gun-Shy," directed by Kris Moyes as a kind of science-y meditation where the band's creativity comes from, had that crisp color corrected HD feel that...
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These Color Photos of the Third Reich Are Absolutely Chilling
Image: Hugo Jaeger/LIFE Hitler's Nazi party is well known for its heavy use of symbolism in campaigns. Today, that use of massive banners and massive eagles and massive crowds all lined up at...
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Malik Daud Khan and the Future of Counter-Terror Collusion
L to R: Khan's son, Noor, holds a photo of his father, who was killed by a US drone in 2011. A relative, Kareem Khan, holds a photo of his son and brother, both killed in American drone strikes (via)...
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Will You Pay for YouTube?
Think of your time on YouTube: Most of it is spent watching a two-minute cell phone clip waiting for five seconds of action. Now that Vine has that segment covered, would you pay for something that's,...
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A Brief History of the Monocycle, Humanity's Most Useless Vehicle
This month, the RYNO, a one-wheeled electric motorcycle, is slated to start rolling off the assembly line. Why, one might ask, might human society need a one-wheeled electric motorcycle? Well, we...
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When Tumbleweed Attacks
Under any other circumstances, passing tumbleweed conjures up all the rough-n-tumbled grit of a disappearing American West. But then you have something like this, which if it isn't something straight...
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Can We Stop Worshipping Cats, Because They're Evil as Hell
Twitter's new Vine service is rad, but it hadn't fully arrived until now. Yes, Vinecats.com has arrived, as signals that Vine has been fully accepted by the internet because it can finally trade in...
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Will the Only Senator to Stand up to John Brennan Be the One Who Was Tortured?
Amid the commotion over Chuck Hagel's nomination to lead the defense department, Obama's pick for CIA director has received considerably less attention. But if John McCain's stance on torture and his...
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The Silk Road Is Showing Cracks
It always sounded like a hoax, didn't it? Silk Road: an Internet website where you can buy any drug in the world? Yeah, right. But it's real. It was almost two years ago that we first heard about the...
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Monkeys, Not Just Humans, Can Teach Each Other Better Ways to Use Tools
René Descartes thought human beings were pretty special. And we are. But it also led him to say a lot of things that were wrong. We’re only special to a point. He said, “I think, therefore I am,” and...
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