- EDITORS' PICKS
- Japanese Robot Learns to Sing by Mimicking Pop Stars
- A Day in the Life of a Commenter
- The Extinction of the Ewoks
- Post-Apocalyptic Wizard of Oz Miniatures
- When 'Monopoly' and Internet Collide...
- Facebook Bandit Pleads Guilty, Is a Moron
- Popcorn Apocalypse
Gadgets Make Your Blood Boil? There’s an App
Medical gadgets and the iPhone would seem like a match made in heaven, but device makers have had a hard time finding appealing solutions. Is a blood pressure cuff the perfect fit? Continue reading
The Nature of Petroglyphs
The Bradshaw paintings, petroglyphs found on the lands of Australia’s Wanjina Wunggurr Wilinggi people, are perhaps 46 to 70,000 years old—yet their colors remain bright, their figures sharply delineated. A new study suggests that the colors remain vivid because they’re alive. Continue reading
Flocks of Trouble
A mystery deepens as more redwing blackbirds turn up dead in the America South. It’s likely not UFOs or secret weapons, but the birds’ instinctual flocking behavior, that’s to blame. Continue reading
LEGO of Your Inhibitions
Another advertisement from the Land of People Who Want to Be Toys. Video after the jump. Continue reading
For Self-Repairing Solar Cells, Leave it to DNA
A team of scientist at Purdue University takes a biomimetic approach to engineering solar cells, appropriating the components of living systems to novel ends. Continue reading
Decline, but not Fall
The decline of experimental results isn’t something many scientists want to talk about, writes Jonah Lehrer. But perhaps when it comes to science, such disappointment isn’t a bug but a feature. Continue reading
Scenes from an Event Horizon
Imagery that comes to grips with black holes, places where the equations of the physicists seem to stretch unto breaking. Videos after the jump. Continue reading
Flights of Fancy
A laboratory in Montana that limns the bases of avian flight; a tumblr that collects evidence of our airborne technological fantasies. Continue reading
The Writing on the Wall
The strenuous outsider scholarship of underground intellectual Steve Duncan charts the history of New York public transit, surreptitiously. Video after the jump. Continue reading
Spirit of the Age
Seven years ago, Mars Exploration Rover Spirit landed on Mars. Mired in 2009 after traveling nearly five miles across the Martian landscape and silent since March, Spirit’s parking spot may be its final resting place. Continue reading
