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Earth From Space: A Decade of Development in Dubai
NASA This image contains the Earth from Space, twice. But first, an explanation: Here is what a decade of globalization did to the city of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. The top picture, imaged...
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How to Get Students Interested in Space (and Science, and Math, and Engineering)
The learning platform Alleyoop is collaborating with NASA and other institutions to get kids to consider STEM careers. Shutterstock/Neo Edmund How do you get young people excited about space? How do...
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Sorry, Los Angeles: Synchronizing Traffic Lights May Not Reduce Emissions
What makes one car more efficient may not work when you apply it to a city.Flickr/epSos .deFor years, progressive urbanists and environmentalists have advocated for synchronized traffic lights. Syncing...
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The Inverse of the Animated GIF May Be the Real 'Instagram for Video'
A new app, Picle, offers a new form of mobile story production that feels just right.Walking through my neighborhood, I passed a local school: The sound of children playing popped out its open windows...
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Picture of the Day: Two Nebulae, in a Slow Collision
NASAScientists have known about the nebula 30 Doradus for some time. It's 25 million years old, it makes stars, and it might be running out of fuel. But they only recently discovered that what seemed...
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Meet the Kids—Now Adults—Behind 1995's 'Internet Prophecy' Video
The group includes a TV reporter, a grad student, a data control specialist ... and a programmer. The Internet prophets of 1995, Helena, Montana In the early 1990s, Cindy Gaffney attended a Silicon...
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Fewer and Fewer People Want to Know About Computers, Says Google
Bouncing around Google's trend data, I came across what to me is a very sad looking chart. It's the search volume for a basket of computer and electronics related terms (e.g. "windows, mac, hp, ipod,...
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Despite Android Sales, Apple Dominates the Mobile Web (and No One Uses...
This is most of what you need to know about the fortunes of RIM, the maker of the Blackberry, and Apple, the maker of money. They come from a new report on mobile web usage by the analyst firm,...
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This 'Thrilling Image' Shows the Martian Hills Where the Curiosity Rover Is...
It's been a few days since the Curiosity rover sent back a stunning image of the Martian landscape. We were getting impatient, actually. But no longer! Check out this view of the lower reaches of Mt....
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Transposing the Icons of Google Maps Into the Real World
Artist Aram Bartholl explores the growing influence of digital technology and the social web through urban installations and interactive projects. What happens when you reinsert elements from the...
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From Heroes to Humans: The Totally Regular People Who Landed a Robot on Mars
Now that our space explorers are astrobots, it's easier to see the ordinariness of the folks who are our space program.Implosion of memes! NASA staffers do their best McKayla Maroney. (Reddit)...
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Curiosity Scientists Select Random Rock on Mars to Shoot With Laser
N165 is the (un)luckiest bit of basalt on Mars. Which is saying something because there is a lot of basalt on Mars. Meet the most boring rock in the world. It's probably basalt, an igneous rock, which...
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The Sound of a Dying Star
Scientists imagine the scream of a star as it gets shredded by a black hole. As a star lay dying: The Egg Nebula, running out of nuclear fuel (NASA) When a star gets consumed by a black hole ... what,...
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Picture of the Day: Globular Clusters of Stars, From a Young Galaxy
NASA Big, hugely massive things tend to congeal into spheres. Earth, Jupiter, Mars: Every planet in our solar system is a sphere. Stars, too, are spheres. But what's not known is that stars themselves...
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Even E.B. White Felt Overwhelmed by His Inbox
In a 1961 letter, the author of "Charlotte's Web" revealed that he hated how his "morning mail" kept him from actually doing work.E.B. White is, by all accounts, a rather ideal human specimen. An...
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Can a Computer Tell Us What Makes Paris Look Like Paris?
Blue and green street signs, tall double-paned windows, balconies enclosed with iron filigree, and a distinct lamppost style: the keys to Parisian charm, as calculated by an algorithm. Google Street...
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Bad News, Space Fans: Barnard's Star—One of Our Sun's Closest...
Our corner of the universe just got a little bit lonelier. Wikimedia Commons Take a look at the picture at the top of this page. See that star in the lower right hand corner, the big, bright one with...
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Watch This Anthropomorphic Robot Strut to 'Stayin' Alive'
Boston Dynamics' PETMAN robot finally gets the soundtrack it deserves from video editor Tim Trusler. PETMAN was developed to test "chemical protection clothing," so it can walk, crawl and perform "a...
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Happy Birthday, Voyager! May You Enjoy Interstellar Space
On the 35th birthday of Voyager 2, a moment to pause and praise the old technology that is now at the frontier of space exploration, literally. NASA Think about the different pieces of consumer...
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Google Improved Maternity Leave, Post-Partum Attrition Dropped by 50%
Google's data-driven management might just be able to find the right set of incentives and work arrangements to make careers easier on moms. Reuters Amid all the handwringing about what technology...
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