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At a Glance: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the Oregon Coast

The coastal Highway 101 route, through rainforest and redwoods, is as beautiful as it is popular
August 29, 2012 | By Alastair Bland

Today Was the World’s Biggest Food Fight, Welcome to La Tomatina

What does it look like when 40,000 people start throwing 100 metric tons of tomatoes at each other?
August 29, 2012 | By Jeanie Riess

Playing Video Games At Home Turns 40

The Magnavox Odyssey went on sale 40 years ago, sparking the home video game revolution
August 29, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

Your Significant Other Might be Spying on You

About a third of people think it's okay to snoop on a significant other's cell phone or email if they suspect foul play
August 28, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Five Epic Patent Wars That Don’t Involve Apple

The recent Apple patent decision was a big one, but here are some historical patent wars you might not have heard of
August 27, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Your Password Will Probably be Hacked Soon

Passwords are getting weaker and hackers are getting better at figuring them out
August 27, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Check Out the Milwaukee Police’s Mind-Blowing, Crime-Busting Site

The Milwaukee Police are tackling crime with creativity and great web design
August 27, 2012 | By Rachel Nuwer

Why is Bluetooth Called Bluetooth? (Hint: Vikings!)

Bluetooth's odd name harkens back to Swedish telecommunication company Ericsson's Viking heritage
August 27, 2012 | By Rachel Nuwer

Who Needs to Wash Their Twitter Mouth Out? A Map of Profanity on Twitter

Watch the Twitter users of the United States wake up and greet their followers with either a good morning, or something a little less appropriate
August 21, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Bill Gates’ Potty Mouth – His Eco-friendly Toilet Contest Hands Out $100,000 in Prizes

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Reinvent the Toilet Challenge invited entrepreneurs and researchers to try their hand at creating novel ways of disposing of - or even better, making use of - human waste
August 20, 2012 | By Rachel Nuwer

Better, Faster, Taller – How Big can Buildings Really Get?

The race for the tallest structure in the world has been with us since humans built structures, and today it is going strong. But where's the limit?
August 20, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Books of the Future May Be Written in DNA

Researchers have encoded a book, including pictures and an accompanying computer program, in DNA
August 17, 2012 | By Rachel Nuwer

The Laboratory of Nikola Tesla, One of History’s Greatest Scientists, Is Up For Sale

Nikola Tesla invented a device that uses lightning to play music. No, seriously
August 17, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

Good Morning Curiosity – Wake up With the Same Songs as a Mars Rover

Every Martian morning, the Curiosity rover gets a wakeup song
August 17, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Why You Should Stop Worrying About the Robot Apocalypse

You, for one, won't have to welcome your robot overlords too soon
August 16, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Aircraft Design Inspired by Nature and Enabled by Tech

In 2050, Airbus hopes to fly you around in a see-through jet shaped like a bird skeleton, with morphing seats, spa treatments, and virtual entertainment
August 16, 2012 | By Sarah C. Rich

Yesterday’s Tomorrows: How a Smithsonian Exhibit I Never Saw Changed My Life

Meet the historians who pioneered scholarship of retro-futurism
August 15, 2012 | By Matt Novak

Doctors Probe Bodies with Tiny Microscopes But Don’t Know What They Are Seeing

Because tiny space-age probes are used by only a handful of specialists around the country, a new study found that different labs are interpreting what they see in very different ways
August 15, 2012 | By Rachel Nuwer

Julia Child Loved Science but Would Hate Today’s Food

It's her 100th birthday today, and while the master chef loved science she would have hated today's laboratory produced food
August 15, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Shark Week Proves We Are Fascinated by Sharks, So Why Do We Kill So Many of Them?

Around the world, these animals command a strange sort of fascination in their human admirers—an urge to see, learn and encounter, but also to kill
August 14, 2012 | By Alastair Bland


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