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The Best Grid-Scale Batteries Only Store Six Times the Energy Needed to...
Photo: Don Debold Set against the backdrop of the recent news that the US added a bit over 13 gigawatts of new wind power capacity last year, with 3.3 GW of solar power installations, and efforts to...
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Why Japan's Methane Hydrate Exploitation Would Be Game Over for the Climate
The white part is gas hydrate deposited into sediment, here found off the coast of Oregon. Photo: Wikipedia. You know how NASA scientist James Hansen has characterized continuing to tap Alberta's tar...
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Scientists Just Almost Confirmed the Higgs Boson Discovery Again
Hold onto your lab coats, scientists. CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, came forward with a new batch of Higgs Boson news. Now that the researchers have gone through all of the...
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The Things that Early Adopters of Google Glass Will Be Quietly Doing While...
When Google releases Project Glass, possibly later this year, they won't just be letting its early users take pictures of anything they see, or do Google searches with their eyes closed and their...
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The Only Pi Day Celebration You Need to See
Have you heard? It's Pi Day. March 14—3/14—get it? Based on calendrical proximity, it's kind of like St. Patrick's Day, but instead of endless rivers of booze, there's an endless stream of digits. It...
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These New Renewable Energy Stats Will Blow Your Coal-Powered Mind
This dude gets solar. Image: Nola The last couple of days have brought a whirlwind of brain-busting news from the energy sector. And for once, most of it's good. No giant nuclear catastrophes, no new...
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Developers Use the Xbox Kinect to See Inside Your Head
Getting your head opened up in a non-figurative way—that’s to say, with a bone saw and scalpel—is kind of an all-or-nothing proposition. If you and your brain surgeon are going to take the trouble,...
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For the Sake of the Birds, We Humans Need to Keep Our Voices Down
At their best, urban areas can harbor an astonishing variety of bird species, with parks both large and small providing critical habitat for migratory birds (think New York's Central Park and all the...
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If You're a Foreigner Using GPS in China, You Could Be a Spy
Like many foreign companies in China, Coca Cola is no stranger to bad PR. A year ago, the company admitted that its Shanxi bottling companies had suffered from chlorine contamination; in November,...
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There Should Be Ground Rules For Trying to Re-Engineer the Planet's Climate,...
A geoengineering project in action. Image: Gizmag If we're not careful, some mad scientist-type is going to come along and try to re-engineer the planet's climate all by himself. Seriously. Okay,...
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I Gave My DNA to a Company in China so They Can Manufacture Genius Babies
It’s not exactly news that China are setting themselves up as a new global superpower, is it? While western civilization chokes on its own gluttony like a latter-day Marlon Brando, China continues to...
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Pope-Watching, 2013
The last time a new pope got anointed was in 2005, before iPhones. Before mobile Facebook and Twitter apps. What did the pilgrims say then, and to whom? What would they have tweeted? How would we know...
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Meet WendyVainity, the Animated Queen of Weird YouTube
Have you ever been to the weird part of YouTube? You know, the one where everyone repeatedly writes in the comment section “I’m in That Weird Part of YouTube” again? Well, 48-year-old Australian...
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So Long Google Reader, and Thanks for the Memories
Believe it or not, this picture was taken just a few weeks ago. We both thought it was, like, really beautiful. Oh, bitter irony! How could I have known leaving was on her mind? Not even two days...
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Beware or Be Drunk: The Boozy Origins of the Ides of March
Dictators, emperors and anyone with a friend named Brutus, consider yourself warned: It’s the mother-lovin’ Ides of March. Most of us recognize the ominous warning to “Beware the Ides of March,”...
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Rookie Claire Vaye Watkins Topples Heavyweight Junot Diaz in Story Prize Stunner
In a stunning upset of red-hot author Junot Diaz, Claire Vaye Watkins took home The Story Prize, the Stanley Cup of short-fiction prizes, at an event in New York City on Wednesday. Watkins’s...
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There Will Be Twice as Many Personal Wind Turbines Worldwide by 2018
A Helix small wind turbine. Image: Helix Wind power is booming. Giant, steely turbines now provide 6% of the United States' electricity. 13,000 megawatts worth of wind power—enough to power around 10...
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What Is Social Networking Doing to Language?
A map of languages used on Twitter, with more breakdown at FastCo.Design The default answer to the above is surely "making it worse." When it comes to social networks, grammar, syntax, spelling, and...
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An Appeals Court Said the CIA's Drone Secrecy Argument Is Hogwash
"Drones? We don't even know what they are," says the CIA. Photo: Dept. of Defense Is the US government's veil of drone secrecy beginning to crumble? There appears to be a rising tide of drone critics...
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When Swarms of Drones Invaded SXSW
Photos by Andrew White We've seen what all you street walkers at South by Southwest look like on drones. (You look great.) We've considered the risks that come along with flying drones in Austin, a...
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