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Predictions for Privacy in the Age of Facebook (from 1985!)
Mark Zuckerberg wasn't even a year old when a graduate student foresaw the emergence of online personal profiles
May 02, 2013 |
By Matt Novak
Breast Milk Protein Could Help Fight Superbug
By delivering antibiotics alongside a protein found in breast milk, researchers could fight MRSA in mice
May 02, 2013 |
By Colin Schultz
It Costs At Least $30,000 to Climb Mt. Everest
On top of dealing with the physical challenges, climbers have to be loaded.
May 02, 2013 |
By Rose Eveleth
This Camera Looks at the World Through an Insect’s Eyes
With 180 individual lenses, this new camera mimics an insect's compound eye
May 02, 2013 |
By Colin Schultz
The Internet on the Battlefield Could Be Way Better
On the battlefield, having internet to communicate with one another, control objects and weapons, and calculate positions can be extremely important
May 02, 2013 |
By Rose Eveleth
Want to See How an Artist Creates a Painting? There’s an App for That
The Repentir app reveals an artist's creative process by allowing users to peel back layers of paint with the touch of their fingertips
May 02, 2013 |
By Marina Koren
Some Shoppers Actively Avoid ‘Green’ Products
While energy efficiency and green labeling is a popular marketing strategy today, this strategy can polarize some conservative customers
May 02, 2013 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Events May 3-5: American Civil Rights, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and Interactive Robot Games
This weekend, tour America's shift towards equality, meet local Asian Pacific American writers and celebrate Children's Day
May 02, 2013 |
By Paul Bisceglio
8 Famous People Who Missed the Lusitania
For one reason or another, these lucky souls never boarded the doomed ship whose sinking launched America's involvement in WWI
May 02, 2013 |
By Greg Daugherty
The Only Clouded Leopard Left in Taiwan Is Stuffed on a Museum Shelf
Zoologists call the results of a 13-year-long hunt to find any remaining clouded leopards "disappointing"
May 01, 2013 |
By Rachel Nuwer
UPDATE: Sloth Bear Cub Has a New Name
The National Zoo's sloth bear cub is now called Hank
May 01, 2013 |
By Leah Binkovitz
Happy Birthday to the Father of Modern Neuroscience, Who Wanted to Be an Artist
Ramón y Cajal may have changed neuroscience forever, but he always maintained his original childhood passion for art
May 01, 2013 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Exploring the World’s Most Imperiled Rivers
Agriculture, pollution and hydroelectric development threaten many great rivers. See them while they still flow, via raft, kayak, canoe—or bicycle
May 01, 2013 |
By Alastair Bland
Physicists Have Been Waiting For This Painfully Slow Experiment for Nearly 86 Years
Thomas Parnell, the school's first physics professor, set up an experiment. It's still going
May 01, 2013 |
By Colin Schultz
High Fructose Corn Syrup May Be Partly Responsible for Bees’ Collapsing Colonies
High fructose corn syrup, the sugary compound in soda, is also fed to bees
May 01, 2013 |
By Colin Schultz
How Bone-Eating Zombie Worms Drill Through Whale Skeletons
The worms use a "bone-melting acid" that frees up the nutrients within both whale and fish bones
May 01, 2013 |
By Rachel Nuwer
How Do You Build a 12-Ton Sculpture Installation? Very Slowly
Two years, two births, one Olympic Games and one global crisis–a lot can happen in one art project.
May 01, 2013 |
By Leah Binkovitz
IBM Engineers Pushed Individual Atoms Around to Make This Amazing Stop-Motion Movie
IBM was the first to draw with atoms, and now they're making them dance
May 01, 2013 |
By Colin Schultz
It’s Crazy to Move a Hundred-Year-Old Tree, But This One Is Thriving
There's controversy surrounding the oak's new home, but park or no park, the Ghirardi Oak is staying, and the transport seems to have been a success
May 01, 2013 |
By Rose Eveleth
Physicists to Shoot Extremely Fast-Moving Electrons at Dinosaur Skin Fossil
The actual color of dinosaur skin is still very much up for debate
May 01, 2013 |
By Rose Eveleth
