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How Going to Space Can Mess With the Astronaut Brain
The first astronauts who set foot on the moon were quarantined for three weeks when they returned to Earth. Scientists weren't sure what kinds of lunar germs they might have brought back with them....
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The Brutal Bust in Next-Generation Biofuels in One Chart
When it comes to setting overly optimistic targets for the production of advanced biofuels, the United States Environmental Protection Agency makes Pollyanna sound like Eeyore. The official 2013 target...
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The iPad Falls Short of Expectations—But What Does That Mean?
It was Steve Jobs' last magical gadget: the iPad, harbinger of the future. The iPad went into the tablet space, which was like the moribund corner lot where no restaurant can make it for more than a...
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The Future of Luxury: Avoiding People
When I power on my phone upon landing at LAX, a text message is already waiting for me: “Hi Ian, Silvercar here! We have your res at 1:00pm today. Let’s roll!” Silvercar rents a fleet of silver Audi...
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The Utopian Origins of Restroom Symbols
Navigating through sprawling airports and massive sports stadiums is frustrating enough with them, and traversing through such a labyrinthine world is unimaginable without them. I refer to those...
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Share It Forward: How 1 Facebook Status Spread Across the World
According to the Pay-It-Forward-Day authorities, today is Pay-It-Forward Day. The “holiday” celebrates of little acts of kindness between friends and strangers: If one person does something kind for...
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These Dolphins Are Using Sea Sponges as Tools
The first thing to know is that dolphins can be divided into two groups, and those groups are "spongers" and "non-spongers." The non-spongers are the dolphins that are probably the ones you think about...
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The Forever Battery
Imergy Power Systems’ headquarters in an office park in one of Silicon Valley’s less glamorous precincts is the type of place where the future used to be invented. There are no Beats headphones-wearing...
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Scientists Think Your Body Clock Was Set Before You Were Born
There's a tiny but critical collection of neurons in your brain that tells you what to do and when to do it. It's only the size of a mustard seed, but the suprachiasmatic nucleus, or SCN, regulates...
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Drought Now Covers 100% of California
California's drought has finished its conquest of the state: 100 percent of the land here is now in a drought condition, and 96 percent of it is in a severe, extreme, or exceptional drought. "This week...
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The Site of a 1950s Plane Crash Just Became a National Landmark
There was a thunderstorm over the Grand Canyon the morning that two airplanes vanished there the summer of 1956. Investigators later determined that the TWA and United Airlines flights had collided in...
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Alien Planets and Human Extinction
1. Finding habitable exoplanets is bad news for our long-term survival as a species because if there are lots of places to live but no aliens we can detect... "Might every sufficiently advanced...
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13 Minutes: The Average Warning-Time Before a Tornado Hits
There are a number of regions across the United States that see an exorbitant amount of tornadoes in a given year. None more so than what’s classified as Tornado Alley by the National Climatic Data...
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Why New Lightbulbs Will Make White T-Shirts Look Bad
LED lightbulbs are incredibly energy efficient, but they could do a number on your crisp white button-downs: According to a new study led by Kevin Houser, a professor of architectural engineering at...
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This Sunken Ship Near the Golden Gate Bridge Looks Exactly How You'd Expect...
Underneath the Golden Gate Bridge lies the wreck of the City of Chester, a steamboat that sank on August 22, 1890 at 10 a.m. The boat was impaled on the steamer Oceanic, arriving from Asia, and sunk...
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Two Steves Walking Around Apple? Too Confusing for Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs seemed to have a “reality distortion field.” When he announced new products, tech journalists said, he had the ability to make ordinary features seem incredible, amazing, awesome. Turns out...
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Be the Dolphin You've Always Wanted to Be
1. Body hackers try to acquire animal powers. "Now, some prosthetics wearers, body hackers and amateur scientists are taking this to a different level. With technology and biology at their disposal...
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Hey, YouTube, We Want to Sync Multiple Videos from the Same Event
When everyone has a camera with them at all times, people end up recording a lot of the same things simultaneously. And once in a while these many recorders capture remarkable moments from different...
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Carmakers Are Cutting Carbon Emissions, Except When They Aren't
Releasing a rare bit of optimistic news in the fight against climate change, the United States Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that automotive carbon emissions are down. They declined...
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This GIF Shows Just How Good We've Gotten at Planet-Hunting
A couple of years ago, I talked with Geoff Marcy, the astronomer whose work identifying habitable-zone exoplanets has earned him the nickname of "the planet hunter." When he started searching for...
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