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If We Want to Find Aliens, We Need To Look at Weirder Planets
Chart comparing the smallest known exoplanets with Mars and Earth. via Sara Seager, a researcher from MIT, is calling for scientists to keep an open mind when it comes picking exoplanets to target...
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Are Chinese Oil Companies Planning To Gut Ecuador's Amazon?
Image: Stefan Kistler To oil and gas companies, the Amazon rainforest is one huge cash cow just begging to be milked. But anyone who'd rather not rid the world of 30 percent of its animal species...
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How Big Smells Help Cool the Earth
Image: Michelle Walz/Flickr If you’ve ever wondered how one gets into the climate change denial game, it’s actually pretty simple and has to do with how vast and complex the whole climate system is....
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For the First Time, Researchers Spy on the Undisturbed Quantum World
Here’s an unpleasant thought: part of our everyday reality, the most important part arguably, is forever shielded from our observation. There is a door to this realm that is locked and our ability to...
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Global Warming Is Going to Ruin Surfing for 25% of the World
Image: Flickr In the future, surfing is going to suck for a quarter of the world. New research from Australia's national science agency reveals that thanks to warming waters, the height of ocean waves...
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This Is How You Do Drone Cinema
Flip to HD, will you? A low pass over a slender fishing boat. A night crawl through a deserted city street. A gradual, dizzying ascent from a string section and pianist, all balanced precariously on...
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For Sale: The EKG That Proves Neil Armstrong Wasn't Stressed About the Moon...
The Armstrong EKG plaque for sale, via RR Auctions Despite the years of training it takes to become an astronaut, don't you think you'd be a bit nervous to become the first person to walk on the Moon?...
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Outcast Japan: A Chat About the Future with Ryu Murakami
All photo by Nico Perez Via VICE — Ryu Murakami is one of Japan’s most celebrated and controversial authors. His first novel, Almost Transparent Blue, was a dark book about disillusioned Japanese...
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Can Paid YouTube Subscriptions Fulfill the A La Carte Cable Dream?
Would you pay for YouTube channels that guaranteed you television-quality shows every month? Google has long been rumored to think it could work, and according to a report from Financial Times...
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'Watergate: The Video Game' Exists, and It's Awesome
Image: Watergate: The Video Game Good point-and-click games and good investigative journalism have more in common than you might think. Both start slow, for instance: getting the boring basics of the...
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How a Troll Is Just Like a Troll
Netizens have come to know a “troll” as ”someone who posts a deliberately provocative message” to fuel an argument online. That these inflammatory net users were labeled as “trolls” was no accident....
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Cody Wilson's Fully 3D-Printed Gun Works Alarmingly Well
Image via YouTube / Andy Greenberg The hypothetical idea of a fully 3D-printed gun became a reality last week, when Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson unveiled "The Liberator." It's a boxy ugly...
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These Killer Autonomous Robots Are Already Switched On
Last week, the UN published a report outlining the case for banning lethal autonomous robots, or, as the tech press prefers, "killer robots." Many of those articles about the report led with an image...
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Scientists Mapped How Invasive Species Sail Around the World
The Port of Los Angeles, via Lance Cunningham/Flickr Invasive species are taking over the world, and marine ecosystems aren't immune. And as worldwide shipping volume grows, the risk of spreading...
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What Does Google Want with Vint Cerf's Interplanetary Internet?
Image via Flickr / Joi Over 15 years ago, Vint Cerf, "one of the fathers of the Internet," and some of his pals at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory started an absurdly ambitious project. They wanted...
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Solar Power's Finest Airborne Publicity Stunt Is Slowly Soaring Across the U.S.
Image: Wikimedia The Solar Impulse is an all-electric airplane that uses nothing but sun power to soar across the sky at very slow speeds. Its design and mechanics have been steadily improving over...
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As Boreal Forests Move North, They're Likely to Shrink
Photo: NOAA The boreal forests of the world—that vast swath of woodland that circles the globe across the top of North America, Europe, and Siberia, in between the Arctic tundra to the north and the...
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This Video of a Half Second of High-Frequency Trades Is Just Too Much
Capitalism (via) It can be hard to wrap your head around the blistering speeds that rule the world of high-frequency trading. We know what a few seconds worth of computer-powered HFT looks and sounds...
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Russian Billionaire Dmitry Itskov Plans on Becoming Immortal by 2045
Itskov modeled as an avatar at Russia 2045's 2012 conference, via its Facebook page Dmitry Itskov wants to live forever. The 32-year-old Russian billionaire and media mogul thinks he can do this by...
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The TF-X Will Be the First Flying Car That Actually Works Like a Flying Car
Image: The TF-X concept from Terrafugia The dawn of the flying car is nigh, at least for rich people. A company called Terrafugia has been working to bring the first airborne sedan, the Transition, to...
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