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More Apple Maps glitches depict a disturbing, surreal world
This is what happens when texture mapping goes horribly wrong — an algorithm's failed attempt to align three-dimensional models to a two-dimensional image. The result is something only Salvador Dali...
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Drinkable Water Once Flowed on Mars
Not to be outdone by Curiosity, the Opportunity rover has made one of its most significant scientific discoveries to date. A recent analysis of clay minerals indicates that neutral water once existed...
View ArticleWatch this mesmerizing timelapse of Hawaii's lava flows
Travel photographer Quang-Tuan Luong has put together this gorgeous video showcasing the active volcanoes of Hawaii National Park. Even though he's photographed each of the 59 U.S. National Parks,...
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7 Totally Unexpected Outcomes That Could Follow the Singularity
By definition, the Technological Singularity is a blind spot in our predictive thinking. Futurists have a hard time imagining what life will be like after we create greater-than-human artificial...
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A German Bomber From WWII Has Been Raised From the Dead
During the Blitz in 1940, a German Dornier 17 bomber was shot down over the English Channel near Kent. Now, some 73 years later, it has been brought up from its watery grave. It's considered the most...
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Floating robotic spheres will be used to play games in space next year
The European Space Agency and MIT is setting up a tournament where students can earn points by controlling the movement of volleyball-sized spheres located inside the International Space Station. The...
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A museum of robotic equipment used during the Chernobyl disaster
During the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, Soviet authorities tried to spare human workers from the harsh conditions by experimenting with a number of bizarre and oddly innovative remote-controlled...
View ArticleAccording to the source blog, Horoshiyblog, it's gotta be close.
According to the source blog, Horoshiyblog, it's gotta be close. The author writes: "We went yesterday to Chernobyl. Loved it."
View ArticleI know that most people think that aliens are going to be all warm and cuddly.
I know that most people think that aliens are going to be all warm and cuddly. A lot of this has to do with Carl Sagan's contact optimism and his hypothesis that the only extinction-risks survivable...
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Why it might be possible to go snowboarding on Mars
NASA scientists think that sliding chunks of frozen carbon dioxide — dry ice — may be responsible for creating track marks on some Martian sand dunes. Which brings up a totally awesome idea:...
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New Project to Message Aliens is Both Useless and Potentially Reckless
A group of scientists and entrepreneurs has created the world’s first continuous message beacon to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations. And for a fee, people can use it to transmit their...
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These Unresolved Ethical Questions Are About to Get Real
As our technologies take us from the theoretical to the practical, a number of thorny moral quandaries remain unanswered. Here are important unresolved ethical questions that are on the verge of...
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Say hello to the particle accelerator of the future
Behold the International Linear Collider — a proposed 31-kilometer electron collider that could shed light on new areas of physics — including dark matter. A five-volume report containing the...
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The oldest man to have ever lived has died
Japan's Jiroemon Kimura has passed away at the age of 116 years and 54 days. Guinness World Records is recognizing him as the oldest man in recorded history. He died of natural causes in a hospital...
View ArticleI incorrectly put 119; fixed to say 116.
I incorrectly put 119; fixed to say 116. Sorry about that.
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This New Video Map of Space Will Make You Feel Utterly Insignificant
Talk about your 40-foot perspective: An international team of researchers has put together an absolutely brilliant 3D video map of the nearby universe out to a distance of 300 million light-years. The...
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U.S. Supreme Court Says Human Genes Can't Be Patented. Sort of.
In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court of the United States has declared that isolated chunks of human DNA cannot be patented. And thank goodness for that. But it's a ruling that comes with a...
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Did men create menopause by chasing after younger women?
From an evolutionary perspective, human menopause doesn’t make a lot of sense. Searching for an explantion for this somewhat uniquely human process, a group of Canadian researchers used computer models...
View ArticleI've changed it to say that the "observable universe" is over 93 billion...
I've changed it to say that the "observable universe" is over 93 billion light years in diameter. Thanks for the head's up.
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Scientists discover an entirely new teeny tiny body part
Throw away your anatomy books, everyone, because they're now officially out of date. A professor at the University of Nottingham has discovered a layer in the human cornea that was previously unknown...
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A map of all the rivers in the United States, and nothing else
Just how many rivers are there in the United States? Based on this map, a hell of a lot more than you might think. Nelson Minar put this wonderful map together. He put all the data the files he used up...
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