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NASA Might Stop Exploring the Planets: Here's Why That's Terrible
Saturn, as photographed by the Cassini probe in 2008 (NASA)In the fall of 1997, a massive, unmanned rocket—one of the largest ever—took off on American soil, bound to Venus. It swung around that...
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Imgur: The Biggest Little Site in the World
The whole thing started with a picture. An extremely tall fellow, Dan, peeked over a door—over a door—to watch TV. It was funny. Someone took a photo. Dan posted the photo to the image-sharing site...
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5 Intriguing Things: Wednesday, 12/4
1. Google has quietly acquired seven small robotics companies in an effort to do for humanoid robots what the company did for autonomous cars. "A realistic case, according to several specialists,...
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Airplane Emergency Landing Cards Can't Compare to This French Nuclear Blast...
Should you have the misfortune of finding yourself under atomic attack, please, ne paniquez pas! Lest you end up in a stampede: If you are able, hide behind a protective wall. Keep your face covered....
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Shazam for Neo-Nazi Music
ShotspotterGerman police are considering creating software that would allow them to identify right-wing music being played online or in public. "The new software would let police quickly identify...
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No Big Deal, Just a Robot Walking Around Campus
Here we see MARLO, a robot, walking at the University of Michigan. First he walks inside, then he moves outside, though still supported by a safety harness and trailing batteries. The robot is a...
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New York City's Energy Infrastructure Transformed Last Month and Nobody Noticed
A really important thing happened last month to New York City and the rest of the mid-Atlantic. This event will change the daily lives of millions of people, especially during the coldest months of...
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Can That Viral Photo of the Fogged-In Grand Canyon Possibly Be Real?
Fogged in Grand Canyon (National Parks Service)You may have seen this photograph (or one like it) floating around your social media feeds in the last week. It's the Grand Canyon filled with fog....
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How to Take a Picture of a Single, Ultra-Magnified Snow Flake
Flickr/chaoticmind75No two snowflakes are alike, they say. And yet: We rarely get proof of that. Our eyes perceive snow not as individual, idiosyncratic crystals ... but rather as uniformly fluffy...
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How Tesla Batteries Are Powering an Energy Revolution
Those Tesla Motors lithium-ion battery packs aren’t just powering electric luxury sports sedans for the 1 percent any more. They’ve started appearing in a small number of California homes to store...
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How Many Tulips Can You Buy With One Bitcoin?
See that big number up there? It’s the current bitcoin-tulip exchange rate. Based off the weighted price of bitcoin from the currency exchange website Mt. Gox, and updated every 15 minutes, it...
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The Best, Most Stunning, Jaw-Dropping Space Station Time-Lapses of All Time,...
NASA/Rebecca J. RosenWe live in an age of space-image abundance. Sure, NASA may not be able to continue running its existing missions, but, guys, we have more space photos and videos than we know what...
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Here Is What Happens When a NASA Scientist Designs Holiday Sweaters
Digital Dudz via The Daily MailMark Rober spent nine years working as a rocket scientist. At NASA. His focus? The Curiosity rover, the plutonium-fueled science-experiment-cum-robot that is currently...
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Another Problem for Amazon's Delivery Drones? Angry Birds
A hawk attacks a "Robo Raven" drone during a flight test at the University of Maryland. (UMD Robotics screenshot via UPI)We can talk about regulatory hurdles. We can talk about delivery zone issues. We...
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5 Intriguing Things: Thursday, 12/5
Lyuba, a well-preserved baby mammoth carcass. 1. The "not-too-distant" future of television. "What remains of live programming is reserved for sports programming, breaking news stories, talent...
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5 Intriguing Things: Friday, 12/6
Augustin Mouchot's Sun Machine. 1. 'Crazy ants' (this is their real name) are overwhelming swaths of Texas. They horrify us because we see in them "the impression of life caught up in a senseless,...
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How Do We Welcome Astronauts Back to Earth? By Making Them Go Through Customs
Shutterstock/FER737NGIn a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) yesterday afternoon, the now-retired astronaut-cum-social-media-phenomenon Chris Hadfield answered a series of redditors' questions about space...
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Sympathy for the Blue Screen of Death
It’s the late ‘90s and something’s wrong. You can’t put your finger on it, but you know, deep down, it’s just not working anymore. Instant Messenger isn’t loading or Napster just crashed. Your computer...
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Facebook Considers Adding a 'Sympathize' Button
Shutterstock/ollyy/FacebookPerhaps what we need, what Facebook needs, what the world needs, is a Sympathize button. And, according to an engineer at the company, it’s something that the company has...
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The World's Greenest Oil Company?
A SunPower/Total photovoltaic power plant in Kern County, California (AP)When Total, the French oil and petrochemicals conglomerate, announced a joint venture yesterday with California biofuels company...
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