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How Archaeologists Dug Up a Human-Shaped Coffin That Wasn't There
A team of archaeologists and historians announced on Tuesday that they’ve identified the remains of four prominent men who died at Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America, between...
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America Offline
The population of people in the United States who don't have an Internet connection is down to 15 percent, new data from Pew Research shows. That's the equivalent of about 47 million people, which at...
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Aging Pipes Are Poisoning America's Tap Water
FLINT, Mich.—Melissa Mays looks around the emergency room at a frail, elderly man in a wheelchair and a woman with a hacking cough and can’t quite believe she’s here. Until a few months ago, she was...
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Night Vision Without the Goggles
In March, Gabriel Licina pinned his eyes open and had his friend, Jeffrey Tibbetts, place several drops of a carefully calibrated liquid into his eyes. After a few minutes, to let the drops settle in,...
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iTunes Really Is That Bad
iTunes is the glue of Apple’s software universe: It connects the company’s phones and tablets, desktops and laptops, and online media store and streaming service. It is also, in the inimitable...
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What an F-16 Pilot Sees—and Misses
For background discussion of the tragedy early this month, when an Air Force F-16 hit a civilian Cessna 150 at low altitude near Charleston, South Carolina, please see: “Why Would an F-16 and a Cessna...
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Body-Camera Footage Gets an Officer Indicted for Murder
On July 19, 2015, a 43-year-old Cincinnati man named Samuel DuBose was pulled over by a University of Cincinnati police officer, Ray Tensing. Tensing was white. Dubose was black. His car was stopped...
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Twitter Verification Is Meaningless
One of the best gifts someone could have given Ben O’Keefe for his 21st birthday was a blue checkmark next to his Twitter username. “I'm a public figure,” he told me. O'Keefe, a vocal member of...
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How Fake Data Could Protect Real People’s Privacy
The first U.S. Census was carried out in 1790 to count the population in each state and assign seats in Congress accordingly. Since then, the Census Bureau has expanded its mission, collecting...
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The Instant Aging Experience
This article was originally published at http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/399995/instant-aging-suit/
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The Trouble with Futurism
In the future, everyone’s going to have a robot assistant. That’s the story, at least. And as part of that long-running narrative, Facebook just launched its virtual assistant. They’re calling it...
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Is Anywhere on Earth Safe From Climate Change?
Put simply: Climate change poses the threat of global catastrophe. The planet isn’t just getting hotter, it’s destabilizing. Entire ecosystems are at risk. The future of humanity is at stake....
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Genetic Privacy, as Explained by Mystery Poopers
My hometown has few claims to fame. It’s referenced in a Sufjan Stevens song. It’s the founding place of Domino’s Pizza. Its water tower was once named the “World’s Most Phallic Building” by Cabinet...
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The Age of the Robot Worker Will Be Worse for Men
Many economists and technologists believe the world is on the brink of a new industrial revolution, in which advances in the field of artificial intelligence will obsolete human labor at an unforgiving...
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Gluing Yourself to a Live Crocodile and Other Mistakes
It was in Indonesia that Agata Staniewicz glued herself to a crocodile. Accidentally glued myself to a crocodile while attaching a radio transmitter. #fieldworkfail — Agata Staniewicz...
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Flying a Robot Into the Volcanoes on the Dark Side of the Moon
Really, there’s only one way to find out if the extinct volcanoes on the dark side of the moon are full of gold. Just deploy a special drone—one that can charge its own batteries, figure out where to...
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How Driverless Cars Could Turn Parking Lots into City Parks
Traffic jams aren’t exactly Zen. People are anxious about getting somewhere else instead of being happy about where they are. To make matters more frustrating: In many cases, the cars clogging roadways...
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Netflix's New Parental-Leave Policy: ‘Just About Ideal’
A handful of Silicon Valley companies provide employees with generous (at least by American standards) leave policies upon the birth or adoption of a child. Google offers 18 weeks of paid maternity...
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The Future of Morality, at Every Internet User's Fingertips
For much of the modern, advertising-driven Internet, attention is money. Whether a publisher, search engine, or social platform, the business model is fundamentally the same: the attention of users is...
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Why There Aren't Yet Nanobot Doctors
For years, the cutting edge of medicine has promised nanobots. Tiny little machines that could run around your body delivering drugs, checking up on arteries, and generally keeping people healthy. But...
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