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Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Has Taken Its Battery Certification Flight
Boeing just flew the flight it needed to certify the improved battery housing on its 787 Dreamliner, whose battery woes have marred the next generation plane's launch. Here is Flight Aware's live data...
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Let's Talk About Jurassic Park for a Moment
When I was a kid, I liked dinosaurs. I had my favorite dinosaur-themed t-shirts, and a box full of all kinds of different action figures under my bed. The dinosaurs weren't so much action figures as...
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It's Time To Go Deep Sea Diving on Europa
Once again, Jupiter’s Moon Europa is dishing out the awesome. We know it’s a wet world with vast saltwater oceans lurking under the moon’s cracked icy crust, and according to NASA’s maxim of “follow...
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A Former Apple Designer Turns to Reinventing the Nightclub
Alexander Grünsteidl, director of user experience at Method, London and owner of maverick digital think tank, Digital Wellbeing Labs, is a man on a mission. Passionate music lover and vastly...
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Drone Mania Aside, They Probably Won't Ever Build Our Skyscrapers
Drones are supposed to be the future of pretty much everything, so why not capitalize on that and have them build our skyscrapers for us? OK, Fast Company, the premise of drones as construction...
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As Tornado Season Busts In, Let's Remember the Super Outbreak of 1974
The Super Outbreak of April 3-4, 1974 unleashed some 150 tornados across 13 U.S. states and the Canadian province of Ontario. It remains the most-violent outbreak ever recorded, with 30 tornados...
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Silicon Valley: Now with 20 Percent More Homelessness
Image: Flickr, Creative Commons Silicon Valley is supposed to embody the 'cutting edge' of technological and social innovation. But even the thought leaders in that bastion of tech entrepreneurship,...
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Science over Politics: What an Over-the-Counter Morning After Pill Means
Overruling what he called "bad faith," on Friday a federal judge decided that the morning-after pill, often referred to by the brand name Plan B, must be sold over-the-counter in drugstores. The...
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The Philippines Will Bill the US $1.4 Million for Crashing a Warship into a Reef
The USS Guardian in the midst of salvage operations, via the US Navy Reefs around the world are in rough shape, and those in the Asian tropics aren't immune. But while China's economic boom has caused...
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OMNI's Greatest Hits: Into the Archives of a Strange, Forgotten Future
From the cover of OMNI's second best of sci-fi issue. Over the course of 17 years, OMNI Magazine pushed the limits of what made a great science magazine. With its gonzo synthesis of science fiction,...
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Ecstasy Is Poisoning the Netherlands' Forests
With its liberal stance on the best type of drugs, the Netherlands has been one of the top producers of ecstasy for the past decade. What isn’t going to make you want someone to touch your genitals is...
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How Not to Protest Drone Strikes
Code Pink's Medea Benjamin at a rally in Washington, DC, October 2011 (via Flickr / markn3tel) Here's a tip: The worst way to go about drawing attention to the use of flying robots that end lives is...
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Remember, Oil Companies Are Spilling Toxic Stuff Literally Every Day
Image: Flickr At this point, we can only assume that Exxon Mobil is tring its hand at a slapstick comedy routine: just as it was scrambling to clean up the Arkansas town it just dumped oil all over,...
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The Story of Karl Welzein, According to @Dadboner Creator Mike Burns
For some reason or another I have always held a great amount of respect for Michigan. Somehow, that led to me following Karl Welzein of Grand Blanc, WI, née @dadboner, just to get my Rust Belt kicks....
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Japan Plans Hundredfold Increases in Fines for Wildlife Trafficking
The Central Asian tortoise (Testudo horsfieldii), listed by CITES in 2007 as being the second-most imported tortoise to Japan. Via Wikipedia While Japan isn't the world's worst offender for wildlife...
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The Coasts Are Becoming More Dangerous and More Humans Are Moving to the Coasts
Image: Wikimedia For the last four decades, the United States' coastal population has been growing, and fast. It's expected to continue to grow until at least 2020, and almost certainly after. That...
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Scientists Are Struggling to Wade Through the Bullshit of Fake Academic...
It's easy to forget that science is not always as scientific as we might like to think it is. Like any other discipline, scientific research is a complex web of connections between scientists,...
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Don't Make Wikipedia Angry, You Wouldn't Like Wikipedia When It's Angry
The French government isn't very good at the Internet. Well, maybe not the entire French government but an intelligence agency known as the Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intéieur (Central...
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A Reborn 'Decade of the Brain' Could Cost America More Than Money
About 10 years ago the promise of neuroscience was reaching a frenzied high point, which means that it was just beginning to tarnish. The 1990s were supposed to be, per the first President Bush, a...
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This Is What Bitcoin Sounds Like
As bitcoin surges past the $2 billion mark, the digital cryptocurrency is now the talk of the town. But for futurist financiers, explaining the intricacies of the money of tomorrow to non-nerds or...
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