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Big Pic: 'Red Tide' Algae In Bloom
Red Alert C-Wams Project, Planetek Hellas/ESA Several of the world’s largest desalination plants sit along the coast of the United Arab Emirates. Every year, they deliver 115 billion gallons of...
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New York Botanical Garden Digitizes Biodiversity History
Sarracenia purpurea L. This fantastic-looking flower is special for NYBG—it was the two-millionth specimen digitized. It's commonly known as the purple pitcher plant (great alliteration) and was...
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These Ski Boots Are Comfortable Uphill And Down
Boots Made For Walking Greg Maxson Even though skiers are spending more time hiking into the backcountry, their boots are still geared to traditional lift-access runs. Most alpine boots have cuffs and...
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Documenting The Lives Of Tigers
Tiger peers at a camera trap. Steve Winter/ National Geographic This fall, National Geographicaward-winning photographer Steve Winter published a book with Sharon Guynup called Tigers Forever. The...
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Mars One Narrows List Of Wannabe Martians For 2025 Colony
Concept For Mars One Colony Bryan Versteeg and Mars One The number of Earthlings looking at a potential one-way ticket to Mars has just shrunk by 99.5 percent.People started applying for a voyage to...
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Video: Rush Of Gas From A Champagne Bottle
This is a cork popping out of a champagne bottle, as imaged by a high-speed infrared camera. The infrared light lets you see the plumes of carbon dioxide that shoot out of the bottle’s mouth behind the...
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2014: The Year In Science
Lasers Unleash A Flood Of Space Data ESA's Optical Ground Station The European Space Agency’s Optical Ground Station on Tenerife in the Canary Islands can communicate via laser with NASA’s newest...
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A Silent Isolation Room For Satellites
Local Color Built in 1967, DTU’s anechoic chamber was orginally black, but “it was like working in a grave,” says Olav Breinbjerg, an antenna engineer. So in the nineties, new absorbers were painted a...
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FYI: Do Fat People Stay Warmer Than Thin People?
Warm Santa Kirby Hamilton/Getty Images At the yearly Rottnest Channel Swim in Western Australia, participants often smear their bodies with animal fat for insulation against the 70-degree water. But...
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Now On Twitter: More Than 300 Australian Sharks
Great white shark surfacing Brocken Inaglory via Wikimedia Commons Besides donning swimwear and slathering on sun lotion, visitors to Australian beaches may also want to check Twitter to see if there...
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Inside One Of The FAA's New Drone Test Sites
Welcome to North Dronekota According to the University of North Dakota's privacy policy regarding drone use, these signs must be set up alerting the public to a drone flight. Kelsey D. Atherton...
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Ford C-Max Solar Energi Concept: Using The Sun To Charge An Electric Car
Ford C-Max Solar Energi Concept at CES 2014 Solar power has proven itself better for static charging than it has for on-vehicle use, even if Australia's Solar Challenge race has shown solar cars to be...
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Why Strange Lights Sometimes Precede Earthquakes
L'Aquila earthquake damage Lights were reported prior to an earthquake that struck near L'Aquila, Italy, in April 2009. Emergenza Terremoto Abruzzo via Wikimedia Commons For centuries people have...
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Good Idea/Bad Idea: Use A Belt Sander To...
Belt Sander Chris Philpot Sharpen Knives (Good Idea)Belt sanders may smooth floors and strip paint, but YouTube user wyldediver demonstrates how they can also breathe new life into dull blades. To...
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Century-Old Photos From Legendary Explorer Found In Antarctica
A blast from the past Alexander Stevens on the deck of the Aurora, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Stevens was Ernest Shackleton's chief scientist. Antarctic Heritage Trust, www.nzaht.orgEven after 100...
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Dinosaurs Were Mostly Scaly, Study Finds
Thick-Skinned A fossil of hadrosaur skin Canadian Light Source Were they fuzzy or were they flat-skinned? That's the great question now for dinosaur researchers. After surveying all the world's known...
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Humans May Have Fewer Genes Than Worms
Once upon a time in the 1960s, scientists thought the human genome might contain as many as 2 million genes, units of DNA that code for proteins. But ever since then, the estimated number has been...
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A Goose-Powered Moon Lander And Other Imaginary Spacecraft From The Past
Bird-Powered Moon Lander From The Man in the Moon by Francis Godwin Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-53277 The year is 1638. The Puritans are still settling New England....
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From Untold Billions To None: How Passenger Pigeons Went Extinct
Extinct bird A stuffed passenger pigeon at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Keith Schengili-Roberts via Wikimedia Commons It's hard to fathom how many passenger pigeons there once were, but writer...
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Q&A: How Legal Is The NSA's Interception Of Computers?
NSA Headquarters At Night This image is officially titled, I kid you not, "The Mission Never Sleeps" National Security Agency On Sunday, German newspaper Der Spiegelpublished a story about the...
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