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The Rapidly-Acidifying Arctic Ocean Won't Return to Normal for Thousands of...
Photo: Tim Lucas/Flickr So much of the focus on climate change-induced ocean acidification has been on its effects in tropical regions, and sometimes on the effects on shellfish (more acidic waters...
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Who's Building Bitcoin? An Inside Look at Bitcoin's Open Source Development
One of the biggest stories so far this year has been the re-emergence of bitcoin, the little cryptocurrency that could. It’s been a wild ride, to say the least. Amid the craziness, it’s been easy to...
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Vietnam and South Africa Have Pledged to Close a Huge Rhino Loophole
Why would you want to shoot these guys? Image: Richard Ruggerio / USFWS More than 270 rhinos have been poached this year, which means poachers are on pace to top last year's record high. Yet even as...
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Mind Melt: A Chat With Graphic Artist Leif Podhajsky
All images via Leif's site at his permission Leif Podhajsky is fast becoming one of the most prolific graphic designers in the industry. You may recognize his artwork on any number of...
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Elon Musk Wants to Build an "Autopilot" Tesla
Image: Wikimedia Tesla's electric car and Google's self-driving system are two of the biggest forces in auto technology right now, so it only makes sense to combine the two, thus creating a single,...
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Inside a Mouse's Brain Lies a Chemical Key to the Fountain of Youth
Source image via Wikipedia If a scientist came to you with a plan to tweak a gland in the center of your brain so that you may live to be 140 years old, you'd probably back out of the room slowly and...
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Researchers Are Training the Body to Attack Heroin Like It's the Flu
via Wikimedia Commons Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute have developed a vaccine to neutralize heroin’s effect in the bloodstream, before the drug reaches the brain. While still in the...
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Who's Afraid of Google Glass?
Image via Flickr / taedc Soon, the world will be home to at least 10,000 Google Glass headsets. In addition to the 2,000 already handed to developers, another 8,000 will go to so-called "Explorers"...
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Syria Just Turned the Internet Off Again
Image via Wikimedia Just before 10 p.m. local time, the Internet went dark in Syria on Tuesday night. Scattered reports showed traffic to and from Syria fall off a cliff. Meanwhile, Google reported...
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Tao Lin's Photos of Taipei's 'Facedown Generation'
Via VICE — Over the next month, in celebration of the forthcoming release of Tao Lin's latest novel, Taipei, we will be featuring a weekly selection of photos taken by the author during his recent...
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Climate Change, Not Human Hunting, Killed Off Ancient Australian Megafauna
Photo: Karora/Wikipedia Human activity may be responsible for the demise of many animal species in both historic and prehistoric times—remember, we're in the middle of the sixth great extinction...
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The Beginning of the Ender's Game
For millions of people, especially those who were once bookwormy nerd-skewing preteens like myself, few books were as important as Ender's Game—the tale of that unwittingly xenocidal second grade...
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Constant Dullaart, URL Killer
Twin Towers at Window of the World theme park in Shenzen China. Photo by Constant Dullaart Breathless ache history. The strange comment Constant Dullaart left on my wall sounded like him, but I knew...
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The Quantum Future of Sharing Secrets Might Be a Bit Underwhelming
The quantum internet is way more exciting than most anything at the front edge of communications. At the same time, it’s highly underwhelming. That is, on the one hand, quantum encryption is the...
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Drones Are Flying Above Rhinos and Elephants, But It's Not Yet Clear They Help
Image: Sandra Fenley/Wikimedia In recent months, wildlife preservation agencies, park rangers, and, in some cases, national armies have turned to unmanned aircraft to help them track increasingly...
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Syria's Internet Is Back and So Are the Assad Regime's Bogus Explanations
Image via Wikimedia After 19 odd hours of darkness, Syria's internet flickered back to life on Wednesday. The traffic monitoring company Renesys reported the first signs of activity flashing on the...
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What It's Like to Be a Cyborg, As Explained by a Cyborg
Image: Flickr Neil Harbisson is one of the world's first bona fide cyborgs. Born with total color blindness, Harbisson initially believed himself to be confined to a life in grayscale—everything...
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The Beautiful Promise of Injectable Oxygen
Image via JAS As recently as sixty years ago, if you stopped breathing, you were as good as dead. The advent of a sound technique for cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the 1950s changed all that, but...
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Enormous, Faint Intergalactic Clouds Offer a Clue to Galaxy Formation
The hydrogen clouds as imaged (inset) within an artist's render of neighboring galaxies. According to an NRAO astronomer I spoke with, the image isn't necessarily to scale, but it's probably close....
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Can Drones Make Us Laugh?
Drones have killed untold thousands of civilians--the Bureau of Investigative Journalism suggest it's somewhere around 2,000. But when they're not busy doing that, the incredible technology can be...
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