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The Broken Beyond: How Space Turned Into an Office Park
All the exciting parts of exploring the solar system have been leeched out. What's left is the drudgery of the everyday and the dreams of the rich. The Shuttle, its escort, and traffic (Reuters).I am a...
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Meet Mira, the Supercomputer That Makes Universes
Next month, one of the world's fastest supercomputers will run the largest, most complex universe simulation ever attempted. Argonne National Laboratory Cosmology is the most ambitious of sciences. Its...
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The Newest Factchecker: Reddit
Insight into a community as it tries to create something for the civic good. Factchecking has become a cottage industry, a common -- and expected -- accompaniment to political events as they play out...
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Chanel's *Renewable-Energy-Themed* Fashion Show
The aesthetics of wind and solar are unlike any power source that's gone before them. Energy analysis is a dry business. It's underpinned by spreadsheets showing depletion rates, carbon intensities,...
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Facebook's Population Is Now as Big as the Entire World's Was in 1804
In just eight years, Facebook has gained a population size that took humans hundreds of thousands of years to achieve. Vladimir Wrangel/Shutterstock.com One billion people. That's how many active...
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The Surprising Trajectory of Facebook's Growth to a Billion Users in 1 Chart
The company's hypergrowth began long after younger Americans had adopted the service. If you were in college in the mid 2000s, you think you saw Facebook's fastest growth period. That's when the site...
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The Best Way to Find Aliens: Look for Their Solar Power Plants
A team of astronomers is now looking for Dyson Spheres, massive star-scale solar power plants that extraterrestrial hunters hope alien civilizations employ. A portion of the Wide-field Infrared Survey...
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Charge Your Phone by ... Walking?
A new device can harvest some of the energy you create while walking, and can store it up for charging your phone or iPod later. Before I got a smartphone a few years ago, I only needed to charge my...
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Photo of the Day: The Space Station Launches 3 Tiny Satellites
The ISS sends a few mini-experiments on their way. Behold three CubeSats launched from the International Space Station, aka The Mothership. Future ISS commander Chris Hatfield tweeted the photo this...
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The OED Needs Your Help With These Words: Bellini, Disco, FAQ, Cootie
If you look up august in the Oxford English Dictionary, there's a picture of the Oxford English Dictionary itself. This is the world's gold standard for word origins and usage. So, you might think that...
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The Internet Museum of Oddity Records
While hunting for information on an obscure type of DIY records, I stumbled across a DIY site that's a perfect example of the early Internet ethos.I've recently become obsessed with an odd kind of old...
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Einstein Letter Calling Biblical Stories 'Pretty Childish' to Be Auctioned on...
Bidding to start at $3 million. Wikimedia Commons/Rebecca J. Rosen On January 3, 1954 -- one year before his death -- Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Eric B. Gutkind, whose book, Choose Life: The...
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SpaceX's Just-Launched Falcon 9 Rocket: The Things It Carries
Replacement equipment, science experiments, ice cream ... SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral. (SpaceX) Tonight, at 8:35pm East Coast time, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched into...
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Neanderthal Me
I have been involved for the past 2+ days with travel for and events at the (again very interesting) "Atlantic Meets the Pacific" session, held with UC San Diego in La Jolla. More on that, and other...
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The New Math of My Spam Folder
New Math is an attempt to quantify the world using words and basic math. #atlGallery .galleryNav { display:none;} #atlGallery .galleryHeader{ height:400px; border-width:0px; !important } #atlGallery...
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Felix Baumgartner's Incredible, High-Tech Space Suit
If the Austrian skydiver is to survive his plunge, it'll be thanks in part to his specialized, pressurized protection. Red Bull Stratos/Associated Press Within the next few hours, Austrian daredevil...
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The Web's Elusive Promise of a DIY Career in the Arts
Will self-managed musicians and artists continue to be rarities, or is that path finally becoming a reality on a greater scale? Johnathan Coulton (Wikimedia Commons) Are we finally entering the age of...
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The Newsreel of Joseph Kittinger's 19.5-Mile Jump From Space
In 1960, Joseph Kittinger's daring leap from 102,800 feet above Earth setting records that remained unbroken for decades. Skydiver Felix Baumgartner plans to break it on October 9, 2012, live...
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Can a Robot Learn to Cook?
The art of the perfect chicken soup comes from hands-on experience and social interaction. If robots master that, what separates them from us? The Jetsons Everyone's coming over to watch the big game....
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The Enablers: 3 Unsung Energy Technologies
Welcome back for another round of energy entrepreneurs. I want you to meet Lynn Jurich, co-founder of SunRun, CEO Siva Sivaram of Twin Creeks Technologies, and Alex Tkachenko, President of Siluria....
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