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How The Internet Has Spread Around The World [Infographic]
The World Wide Web is really starting to look like, well, a world wide web. When Tim Berner-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1991, it was a bit of a misnomer--at the time, virtually all of the...
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FYI: How Long Would It Take Santa To Deliver Presents To Every Kid On Earth?
Santa's got a long journey ahead! DreamstimeNot all that long if Santa knew how to stretch time like a rubber band! About six "Santa months," according to Larry Silverberg, a professor of mechanical...
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Montana Bans Wolf Hunting In Areas Bordering Yellowstone
Tagged Grey WolfWilliam Campbell/USFWSFollowing the shooting of a tagged Yellowstone grey wolf just outside the park's borders in Wyoming--the eighth such wolf shot this season--the state of Montana...
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White Nose Syndrome In Bats Could Yield Clues About AIDS
Little Brown Bat Wing Inspection Biologists in Massachusetts inspect a little brown bat for wing damage, a symptom of white nose syndrome. Ann Froschauer/U.S. Fish & Wildlife ServiceResearch on how...
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Concept Of "Purity" Makes Conservatives Care About Environmental Issues
Jack D. Rippervia YouTubeRe-framing environmental rhetoric so it appeals to conservatives can really work, a study finds. It's not that political conservatives don't care about things like climate...
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Genetic Researchers Grow A Fish That Has Legs
Zebrafish LimbsFreitas et al., Developmental CellRecapitulating phylogeny in the lab The fossil record has a lot of strange stories to tell about the evolution of life on Earth, and one of the...
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A Humanoid Robot With Lifelike Bones And Muscles
Watch it stretch. We see a lot of robots here, including some that mimic human movement. But this one gets a special prize for having the most muscles--or the robot equivalent, pulley-like...
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9 Gift Ideas For People With Terrible Home-Improvement Skills
This Is Not A DrillBlack and DeckerThe ultimate gift guide for friends and family members who desperately need to improve their home-improvement skills Click to launch the photo galleryWhether you rent...
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BigPic: Two And A Half Years Of Computer Use In One Incredible Image
Every Day Of My LifeMarcin IgnacA map of when artist Marcin Ignac used his computer, when he didn't, and what he was seeing For a project titled Every Day of My Life, artist/programmer/designer Marcin...
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Magic Foam Can Be Shot Into The Body To Stop Major Bleeding
The new DARPA-developed technology is aimed at buying soldiers enough time to get medical care. Following the debut of an amazing new shapeshifting material that could improve drug delivery,...
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Tiny, Convenient Terahertz Microchips Can See Inside Objects
Danger Hidden In A Toy A knife blade and a bullet were hidden inside this innocuous-looking teddy bear. The inset shows the items, imaged with a silicon chip--no need to cut open the bear to see what's...
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China Fires Officials Who Sanctioned Secret Feeding Of Genetically Modified...
Golden Rice Compared to regular white rice, "golden" rice, at the top, has been genetically modified to produce beta carotene, a precursor to vitamin A. International Rice Research Institute via...
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The Strangest Thing You'll See Today: Air Pollution Represented By...
Hairy nostrils will have to get waaaaaaay hairier to protect us from pollution!DreamstimeClean Air Asia creates a strange visualization of air pollution in Asian cities represented by the length of...
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Round Four: What Are The Most Important Inventions Of The Last 25 Years?
Vote on the penultimate matchups in our Best of What's New bracket! Graphic by Katie PeekWelcome to the fourth round of our five-round bout!There was no shortage of impassioned debate when we gathered...
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How People Explain Color Throughout The World [Infographic]
This clever color wheel reveals how different languages explain the color spectrum, whether in three words or more than 60 words. Data interpreter/designer Terrence Fradet created this lovely...
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What Does A Climate Scientist Think Of Glenn Beck's Environmental-Conspiracy...
Glenn BeckMichael E. Mann, director of Penn State's Earth System Science Center and author of The Hockey Stick and The Climate Wars, reviews Beck's latest work of fiction Agenda 21. When I was first...
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R.I.P. Pixels?
PixelsWikimedia CommonsGive the pixel five years, researchers say, and it'll be dead--cast aside for a vector format. The pixel isn't perfect. For most everything, lining up tiny blocks and displaying...
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Mexican Drug Smugglers Are Launching Pot Into The U.S. With A Huge Pneumatic...
The Mexico-U.S. Border Apparently the border is permeable (if you have a giant pneumatic launcher). via FlickrBorder Patrol agents have recovered 33 canisters of marijuana from a field in Arizona that...
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These Terrifying Handcuffs Can Shock And Drug Prisoners
Electric Shock CuffsUSPTO via Patent BoltA recently filed patent details the (scary dystopian) handcuffs of the future. An Arizona-based company recently filed a patent for high-tech futuristic...
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Very Important Science Finding: Put Your Boxed Wine In The Fridge
Boxed WineWikimedia CommonsYou wouldn't want to bring out sherry or dried fruit tones in your giant box of chardonnay, would you? Today in Very Important Science: if you're drinking bagged or boxed...
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