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Scientists Cram 1,200 Fungal Colonies Onto a Single Microscope Slide
Soon, growing bacteria in petri dishes might become a thing of the past. Photo via USDA Say so-long to Petri dishes. Scientists at the University of Texas at San Antonio have found a way to grow more...
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The DEA Just Seized 11 Bitcoins
Photo via Flickr / CC. That comes out to $814.22 USD. Hardly staggering. But the Drug Enforcement Administration can nevertheless carve another notch in its bloated belt: In an apparent first for both...
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The Incredibly Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Still Has Scientists Stumped
Detail of Voynich Manuscript, via Early in the NSA's life, an encrypted document bedeviled its head, William F. Friedman, even when he tried to hack it using the latest computer technology—which, at...
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Old Security Photos Highlight the Unknown Builders of the Atomic Bomb
The Los Alamos cafeteria, via the LANL site We think of the nuclear age as being fathered by giants. But for all of the famous and infamous names credited for developing the most destructive...
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Finally: A Drone for Dropping Rhymes, Not Bombs
David Shook is out to prove once and for all that the pen is mighter than the sword drone. The Los Angeles-based poet and filmmaker hopes to raise $10,000 on Kickstarter to buy a flying drone to...
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Could the Sea Squirt Be a Bountiful Biofuel Source?
Photo: Wikipedia What to do with invasive species has been a perennial discussion in the environmental community. Some have suggested that in places where they have become an ecological menace we...
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President Obama Just Declared War on Coal
Image: Flickr Tuesday afternoon, Obama all but declared war on coal. It's about time. If we wish to avert the more catastrophic planetary scorching our planet faces, we're going to have to cut out...
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It's Reddit's World (and National Geographic Just Happens to Live in It)
Image via Flickr / CC Earlier this week, a post on the r/science Reddit subthread rocketed to the top of that channel when National Geographic Society announced a 'partnership' between 11 NatGeo...
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The 1960 Snowdens: NSA Agents Who Showed Up in Moscow Bearing State Secrets
Martin and Mitchell meeting the Soviet press, via Fifty-three years ago a pair of NSA agents pulled a Snowden—they told their bosses they were going on vacation, went to Mexico before slipping off to...
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The WikiLeaks Truck Is Still Rustling Jimmies at Bradley Manning's Trial
Artist Clark Stoeckley, the owner of the mobile performance art piece known as the WikiLeaks truck, is one of a handful of activists and reporters that consistently attend Bradley Manning’s trial,...
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A Motherboard Field Trip to the NSA's Museum
The only inkling the National Cryptologic Museum gives you that the NSA might be watching what you're doing is a big sign that tells you you're being watched. "NOTICE: Surveillance cameras in use for...
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Will Potluck Be 'A House Party on the Internet' or Succumb to Social Network...
There’s a new social network in town, which will surely elicit groans and eyerolls from fatigued netizens already struggling to juggle a half dozen online profiles and carefully curate their web...
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Milos Milovjevic Makes Green Design Look Good
Image via Milovjevic's site. Milos Milovjevic is a Serbian-based architect with an eye for fashion. His work bears a crisp, aesthetic-conscious edge, as he believes that "architecture and fashion are...
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To Halt Infectious Diseases, Quarantine the Popular Kids
By measuring popularity, researchers will know who to quarantine first, Photo: Flickr/scragz In the event of a pandemic outbreak of bird flu or the new MERS virus, public officials might want to look...
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Hubble's Latest Discovery Could Change Everything We Know About How Planets Grow
A Hubble image and illustration of the gap forming in TW Hydrae's disk, via NASA. Not too long ago, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope lost a second reaction wheel. It was a crippling setback, leaving the...
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The Supreme Court's Ruling on Gay Rights Is Proof Google Is Better than Bing
Today, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark victory for marriage equality—it ruled the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, and dismissed California's Proposition 8 on standing. This is...
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Topiary Is Free: The Lulziest Tweets of Anonymous's Hacker-Comedian
Back in 2011, when Anonymous splinter group LulzSec was blasting its Lulz Cannon all over the Internet, one of their number became the mouthpiece on Twitter and, presumably, their Pastebin communiques....
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How 'Pay-for-Delay' Keeps Brand-Name Drug Prices High While Blocking Generics
Last week, two important cases involving the "pay-for-delay" of generic drugs were decided in the US and EU. The European Commission fined various pharmaceutical companies, most notably Lundbeck, to...
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The Ecuadorian President Blasted the Washington Post for Snowden Comments
Rafael Correa: Not happy with the press, American or otherwise. Photo: Gobierno Municipal de Pinas. Lost in all this Edward Snowden stuff is what Ecuador, the country that will presumably take him in,...
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In Vietnam, "Depraved" Blogging Could Get You Locked Up for a Decade
A reminder to customers at an Internet cafe in Thu Duc, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam warning against accessing "depraved" or "reactionary" materials online. (Photo via) Via Vice — Vietnam is not a good...
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