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What? This 'Sheep-Eating Plant' Isn't Even All That Sinister
Image: Col Ford and Natasha de Vere/Creative Commons You’re a sheep, just a normal ol’ sheep doing sheep things. One of those things is munching on the various green plants that come across your path....
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Meet the Newly Discovered Pirate Ant, and Three Other Species That Will Ruin...
Photo of a pirate ant female via ant discoverers Bernhard Seifert and Sabine Frohschammer Most don't put ants high up on their list of fears—the six-legged Formicidae are considered innocuous picnic...
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What 17 Million Pounds of Seized Ganja Looks Like
So the Feds clocked in at 113,664 weed busts--that's about 17 million pounds of cannabis--along the US-Mexico border between January 2005 and October 2011. While it's wholly (/sadly) unsurprising to...
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India Banned Dolphin Captivity on Moral Grounds
Photo via Hilts UK/Flickr India has become the world's fourth country to ban the keeping of captive dolphins. To anyone that has ever seen The Cove or read the growing mountain of evidence...
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Julian Assange Says More PRISM Documents Are "Likely" to Leak
Photo via Flickr / New Media Days Considering how closely WikiLeaks is working with Edward Snowden, we may get the rest of his PRISM documents—the ones that the Guardian and the Washington Post won't...
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Why Tesla Is Making Auto Dealers Nervous
Tesla, hot on the heels of winning Car of the Year awards for its electric Model S, appears to have hit a massive milestone for electric vehicles: the point at which they can fill up just as fast as a...
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How Producers of Super Greenhouse Gases Are Blackmailing the Planet
Air conditioners in Nanjing, China, via Let Ideas Compete/Flickr Following the announcement by the United States and China that they will cooperate on phasing out super greenhouse gases—while not...
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Facebook's 'Shadow Profile' Bug Proves We've Lost Control Of Our Data
Most Gen-Yers, the internet generation, gave up on protecting our online privacy a while ago, but some hold-outs take great pains not to share too much personal information, hoping to enjoy the fun and...
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Businesses Better Be Ready for Nasty Space Weather
Solar prominence that shot away from Earth, via NASA/GSFC/SDO The space weather vanes are wobbling, the solar winds are shifting, ominous space clouds are gathering; there’s a space storm a-brewing,...
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Could 'Birth Credits' Stop Overpopulation?
Photo via. The world is a busy place. And, according to the latest UN projections, it's only going to get busier. The world population is set to hit 7.2 billion by next month and estimated to reach...
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Google Glass Is Already Being Used in the Operating Room
Google Glass has gotten grief for being goofy-looking, expensive, and intrusive—oh, and then there was that Roger Scoble shower (shudder)—but as the wearable computers begin to get into the hands of...
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Could Greenwald Be Prosecuted for NSA Leaks? Terrifyingly, It's Possible
In case you forgot to record Meet the Press this week, host David Gregory has set off a veritable shitstorm around press freedoms. In an interview with the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald regarding Edward...
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America's Fracking Economy Isn't Helping Anyone
Image: Flickr, CC Historians believe that the earliest oil wells were drilled in China in 350 AD, nearly two thousand years back. One thousand years ago, around the 10th century, humans built a massive...
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Edward Snowden Doesn't Exist, Is a Gay Alien, and Other Conspiracy Theories
Not long after the existence of the NSA's massive PRISM surveillance program leaked, Snowden truthers began speculating on the leaker's identity. Was the whistleblower still an NSA agent? Was it all...
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Why a British Museum's Ancient Egyptian Statuette Won't Stay Still
A time-lapse set up by Manchester Museum curators seems to have debunked a months-old mystery involving an ancient Egyptian statuette that appeared to inexplicably move on its own within its glass...
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America's Nuclear Power Plants Are Money Pits
The closing San Onofre nuclear power plant, via Flickr Just like a pet alligator that’s grown too big to flush, America’s maturing nuclear power plants are a lot more work and danger than we thought,...
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Sorry, NSA, Terrorists Don't Use Verizon. Or Skype. Or Gmail.
Image: Flickr The NSA has to collect the metadata from all of our phone calls because terrorists, right? And the spy agency absolutely must intercept Skypes you conduct with folks out-of-state, or else...
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Vaccines Are Not a Shot in the Dark
Photo via Flickr / CC. As I recover from a summer illness that left me delirious for about a week, I am reminded of how grateful I am to medical science for helping to attenuate ailments even as...
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With Passion and Selfies, Bill Nye Is America's Science Guy
Bill Nye knows a lot about a lot of things: Evolution, climate change, how to rile up conservative commentators on Fox News. He also knows a lot about cameras. Every week, Nye takes hundreds of selfies...
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A Robot Sphere Is Rolling Over to Save Farmers' Jobs
Image: Rosphere In a refreshing break from the robots-are-stealing-our-jobs bedlam, some farmers are betting that automation will be the savior, not the downfall, of their struggling industry. Advances...
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