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A Time-Capsule Launched into Space for Aliens to Find When All the Humans Are...
Billions of years from now, when the earth has erased all traces of our stay here, hundreds of dead satellites will remain in orbit around the earth. Along with these pictures. Soyuz Fg Rocket Launch,...
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For Lonely Astronauts, a Robotic Companion
Koichi Wakata will have a humanoid pal to keep him company in space. Soon, he'll have a tech-savvy buddy to help him out. (Space Operations and Astronaut Training) You know the only thing lonelier than...
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What's Your Country's Risk of Internet Blackout?
Good news for the U.S. is really bad news for Syria. And Libya. And ... Greenland. Renesys (click to embiggen) What happened in Syria this week -- a wholesale disconnection from the Internet -- could...
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The Kind of Energy Research I'd Like to See More Of
We hear a lot about energy research and development. Perhaps that's because it's the one sort of policy that Republicans and Democrats generally agree on. But there's a different kind of research that...
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The New Math of Some Temporary Things, Ranked by How Long They Last
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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A Machine That Makes Cameras: The Aesthetics of the Lytro
An image taken with a Lytro camera is not really an image, but a machine capable of producing many possible renditions. The Lytro Light Field Camera Let's think about photography as people live it. A...
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Confirmed: William and Kate Are Having a 'High Demand' Baby
William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are expecting a baby. Yes! Calloo, callay! The news has been a matter of speculation for a long (looooooong) while now -- and grew to a fever pitch...
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2day, txt msg = 20
Shutterstock/Pixel Embargo Twenty years ago today, the software engineer Neil Papworth sent a text-based note to Vodafone director Richard Jarvis. The message read, prematurely, "Happy Christmas."...
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3 Theses About The Daily's Demise
The only way to even *know* what readers might like is to allow them to read and share on the open Internet.Reuters Knowing what it's like inside a media company, let me state up front that there are...
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Oh What Fun It Is to Spy on Spy Satellites
Thierry Legault, an engineer and amateur astronomer, is famous for his striking photographs of space, like this image of the International Space Station silhouetted against the sun. He has also...
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Stupid and Unjust: The Highway Robbery of Prison Phone Rates
For nearly 10 years a petition seeking to lower the rates prisoners and their families pay to talk on the phone has languished before the FCC. Reuters Over nearly two decades while he was in prison,...
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Physicists Bummed That Physics Is Pretty Much What They Expected
A scientific nightmare is coming true. Reuters.The Large Hadron Collider discovered the Higgs boson. Hooray! Success for the big machine! But not really. The discovery of the Higgs means that an entire...
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The Cell Phone in War
A striking photo highlights a new facet of modern warfare. These are five government troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, three of whom, according to Reuters' caption, are recording video with...
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Satellite Image: North Korea Prepares for Its Upcoming Rocket Launch
A glimpse of the Sohae launch facility where North Korea is readying its next satellite-bearing rocket NorthKoreaTech.org Journalist Martyn Williams of NorthKoreaTech.org has tracked down images from a...
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NASA Just Announced Its Future Plans for Mars
Another rover by 2020, and humans by the 2030s NASA/JPL NASA just announced the plans for the next phase of its Mars program, culminating in the arrival of humans in the Red Planet's orbit by the...
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The Explosion of 15th Century Printing: A Data Visualization
Harvard's metaLAB is "dedicated to exploring and expanding the frontiers of networked culture in the arts and humanities," pursuing interdisciplinary research like this fascinating look at the spread...
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Federal Agencies Are Failing to Uphold Obama's Stated Commitment to Transparency
A new report for the National Security Archive shows the majority of agencies lagging far behind in complying with a 2009 presidential order. Paul Matthew Photography/Shutterstock On President Obama's...
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Discovered, Probably: The World's Earliest Dinosaur
The "terrible lizards" are even older than we'd thought. Here's how scientists figured that out. The humerus specimens of Nyasasaurus parringtoni seen in (a) anterior and (b) posterior views, as well...
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Black Marble: The Earth at Night Like You've Never Seen It Before
“Nothing tells us more about the spread of humans across the Earth than city lights.” For three weeks spread out over April and October of this year, the Suomi NPP satellite (jointly of NASA and NOAA)...
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An Amazing, Hyper-Detailed Satellite View of the Earth's Lights at Night
Cities, rivers, and even wildfires can be distinguished in this rich composite of satellite images of our planet, taken by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite. The project is a...
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