Can You Tell What This Is?
This may look like finely crafted sculpture, but you're actually looking at an award-winning photograph of a biological sample. The question is: can you work out exactly what it depicts?
NASA's New Landing System Can Adapt in Real-Time Based on What It Sees
Taking a spacecraft to the surface of an alien planet is hard enough, but it can be even more difficult to reach the exact landing spot. Now, new NASA technologies could enable landers to adapt in real-time to what they see before them.
These Portraits Are Drawn Only With Eye-Tracking Software
Graham Fink is an artist with an incredible ability to concentrate. He must be: he manages to draw images like these by subtly shifting his gaze around a screen, recording those movements using eye-tracking software.
"Carolina Butcher" Was a Massive Croc That Hunted on its Hind Legs
The fearsome "Carolina Butcher" isn't a legendary serial killer. It's a 9-foot-long ancestral crocodile that stomped about the southeastern U.S. during the Late Triassic, eating smaller armored reptiles and competing with dinosaurs for top-predator status. Oh, and it walked on its hind legs.
Tag Heuer and Intel Are to Challenge the Apple Watch
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"Apple will get young people used to wearing a watch," Tag Heuer CEO CEO Jean-Claude Biver recently told Reuters, "and later maybe they will want to buy themselves a real watch." Could today be the day we see Tag Heuer's "real watch" answer to the rise of the smartwatch?
Target's Data Breach Settlement Could Pay Victims $10,000 Each
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Back in 2013, Target suffered an incredibly embarrassing data breach where 40 million customer credit cards were compromised. Now, following lengthy discussions with the lawyers of those affected by the hack, the retailer has agreed to pay up a $10 million settlement.
Relax, This Is Just A Mini Supernova
This is an image of a 'classical nova'. Sounds boring, right? Not when you describe it as "an outburst produced by a thermonuclear explosion on the surface of a white dwarf star", it's not.
50 Years Ago, The First Spacewalk Nearly Ended In Tragedy
On March 18, 1965, Alexey Leonov stepped outside the thin metal shell of Voskhod-2 to float in the harsh void of space. For 12 minutes and 9 seconds, Leonov opened the doors on an entire new branch of exploration as the first spacewalker. It was nearly a disaster.
A Combo 3-D Printer, CNC Machine And Laser Etcher Makes A Lot Of Sense
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3-D printers are powerful but limited tools: you can make anything you want, but only out of a specific kind of plastic. But combine that with a CNC machine that shapes metal, and a laser etcher for fine detail, and you have an all-in-one workshop that doesn't require you getting your hands dirty.
This dancer in a light suit is totally breaking reality
Damn. This video of a dancer in a light suit is like staring into a future that us humans chained to the present aren't supposed to see. The dancing is fun to watch, of course, but there's something about that black and white light up suit moving in those ways that is just jarring and completely warps my view of…
Chrome and Firefox Users Make Better Employees
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Have you ever griped at your company's IT department for forcing you to use Internet Explorer? Chances are, you weren't being difficult: you were just trying to be a better employee.
The tallest buildings on each continent throughout history, visualized
I love these fantastic charts from Halcyon Maps that show which skyscrapers or churches or temples or mounds of dirt or other structures that have been the tallest buildings on each continent throughout history. You can see the ridiculous skyscraper arms race that develop in each area over the years and see what…
Video About Newt Sex Shows Just How Boring Human Sex Really Is
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Sure, humans have invented fancy sex toys and internet sexbots, but we have nothing on newts when it comes to humping. That's because getting horny doesn't cause our bodies to change shape and grow fins so that we can make babies underwater. Newts do that and more.
These Mega-Cruise Ships Look Like Small Cities From the Air
The stacks and stacks of cabin windows make today's ocean liners look gargantuan enough from the shore. But the view from directly above gigantic cruise ships is even more startling.
No Cars Will Be Allowed on This Stately New Bridge in Portland
It was 1973 the last time a new bridge opened over Portland's Willamette River: a double-decker span with eight lanes of freeway. Times have changed. When the Tilikum Crossing Bridge opens later this year, it will be one of the few in the U.S. that's purpose-built for transit, bikes and pedestrians—no cars allowed.
The MAVEN Spacecraft Has Spotted a Strange Aurora on Mars
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While you were looking for an aurora on Earth last night, NASA scientists were preparing to unveil something far more unusual: an aurora on Mars, unlike any seen on the red planet before.
Stunning footage of molten lava proves that volcanoes are hell monsters
This is the most terrifying thing I've seen in a long time. Like, monsters are real and the apocalypse is nigh terrifying. And yet I can't look away because the footage of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is so stunning that I can smell my fear burning as the molten lava rock starts taking over the Earth.
Would You Take the Bus If It Earned You Free Credits For Tolls?
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There's a running joke in many American cities: The only way to make public transportation truly work would be to pay people to ride it. In Atlanta, that's kind of what a new pilot program is doing. For certain transit trips, passengers can now earn $2—but they can only use the money to pay tolls on a nearby highway.…
The New Materials That Are Revolutionizing Helmet Safety, Right Now
Modern helmet construction hasn't changed significantly since the adoption of styrofoam impact absorption in the 1960s. But new materials and construction methods are improving safety, in some cases absorbing 30 percent more energy than their styrofoam equivalents. And you can buy helmets made from them today.
Why is the Times quoting this quack on the danger of Apple Watches? [Gawker]
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