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Oh Great: Sidewalks in London Are Exploding
A dozen sidewalks in the past six months, to be precise. With a dozen similar roadside blasts reported in 2010, eight in 2011, and 29 last year, that brings the grand total to 61. That's according to...
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Drafting the NBA: This Guy Built the Basketball Nerd's Infographic Wet Dream
In honor of the basketball season being extended by two more sweet days — thanks to perhaps the most incredible two minutes of basketball in history — spend a few minutes checking out this infographic...
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Population Growth Alone Will Force a Wealth of Species Towards Extinction
Photo: Ed Schipul/Flickr Hot on the heels of the latest United Nations forecast for population growth over the rest of this century (the middle of the road estimate is now 9.6 billion of us by 2050)...
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Human-Focused Design Will Stop the Soulless Future of the Internet of Things
The looming age of the Internet of Things—the networked interconnection of everyday objects—promises great possibilities—and some unsettling ones. In a world where all objects are equipped with...
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Video: The Real Life Wolverine
"Seeing how human life works these days," says 80-year-old Werner Freund, "that's no longer a world I want to be part of." Now, the former German paratrooper would rather be a wolf than a man. Having...
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A New Species of Deadly Fungus Is Lights Out for Cats
A cat infected by the newly-discovered fungus on the left, and post cure on the right. Imagine a sci-fi subgenre that focused on a post-feline world. Assuredly you can't, because the thought is too...
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When the Dark Knight Got a Red Phone
A half century ago today, the infamous "red phone" linking the White House to the Kremlin went live. Of course, the secure Washington-Kremlin hotline involved no phone at all, let alone a red one. Its...
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Where Is the Paper Trail for the FBI's Drone Use?
FBI Director Robert Mueller, via the US Embassy in Estonia In a Wednesday hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted that the Bureau does, in fact, use drones...
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USC Scientists Are Working on Deleting Memories
A probe that binds to synaptic proteins allows scientists to see how the brain changes after you learn something. Photo: Patrick Hoesly Using a protein found in glowing jellyfish and some fancy...
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The Military-Information Complex Is Rising in Silicon Valley
The new Silicon Valley. Image: Wikimedia Silicon Valley has a closer relationship to Big Government than most shining libertarian disruptopreneurs would care to admit—mostly because there's a heaping...
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Surveillance for All: Foreign Governments' Responses to the PRISM Scandal Are...
NSA Chief Keith Alexander is weathering an international shitstorm. Via the Army One of the great absurdities following Edward Snowden's NSA PRISM revelations has been the way in which Obama, and other...
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Math Can Predict the Future of Cities and Urban Sprawl
The urban populations of the world, visualized by UNICEF Urban growth isn't determined by millions of random decisions by individual citizens, but can be explained by regular correlations of time and...
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We Want Our Organ Donors to Be Like Us
Photo via Flickr / CC There are always more people looking to receive organs than there are people looking to donate them, hence the international black market. Despite the scarcity, however, people...
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Why a Ten Cent Bus Fare Hike Was Too Much for São Paulo
São Paulo's sprawl, by Roger4336/Flickr It was a rainy day somewhere north of 80 degrees, and a woman was standing on my feet. It wasn't her fault, really; in a triple-length bus crammed with a few...
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Congress Tells NASA to Quit Researching Climate Change and Asteroid Retrieval
A proposed render for how NASA might catch an asteroid. NASA's pretty skilled at grabbing headlines, but even then, its plan to capture an asteroid and bring it back to Earth is a cut above. Sure, it...
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Still Gripped by Violent Protest, Turkey Begins a Massive Push for Solar Power
Image: Occupy Gezi Across Turkey, in city streets and public spaces, mass demonstrations are still breaking out. But a nationwide push for cleaner energy is nonetheless continuing as planned. It seems...
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The "Revolutionary" Science of North Korea: Political Flowers, Quitting...
Pyongyang's national flower exhibition, displaying the Kimilsungia and the Kimjongilia, the DPRK's national flowers. Photo by Maxime Delvaux No matter whose finger is in charge of pushing the big red...
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Nepal Convicted 13 Rhino Poachers Four Years After the Act
An Indian rhino chilling out, by Diganta Talukdar/Flickr Nepal has become a model country for conservation and anti-poaching efforts, and here's another feather for its cap: 13 rhino poachers have been...
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This Gun Radar Could Make Concealed Carry Obsolete
University of Michigan professor Kamal Sarabandi with the mannequin he uses to test his gun-detecting radar. Credit: University of Michigan. So far, 2013 has been a great year for guns. Firearms have...
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The Feds Made 113,664 Weed Busts on the Mexico Border in Six Years
A bunch of seized bud, via US Customs and Border Protection Immigration reform may be in the air--literally in the air, with legislation proposing 24/7 drone surveillance of the US-Mexico border--but...
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