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For the First Time in 35 Years, A New Carnivorous Mammal Species is Discovered in the Americas
The Olinguito, a small South American animal, has evaded the scientific community for all of modern history
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Lego Architecture Studio Brings Modernism to the Play Room
The childhood toy becomes an architect’s dream come true
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In 1967, the Submarine ALVIN Was Attacked by a Swordfish
They decided that the best thing to do was “surface the submarine and remove the swordfish.”
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Ten Years Ago, 50 Million People Lost Power
Ten years later people are remembering, energy companies are trying to get better, but the grid is the same
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Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and the War That Changed Poetry, Forever
The two titans of American poetry chronicled the death and destruction of the Civil War in their poems
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911 Won’t Always Know Your Location If You Call From a Cell Phone
Among the networks, AT&T and T-Mobile seem to be the biggest culprits at leaving out pertinent location information when customers make emergency calls
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These Scientists Just Spent Four Months Pretending They Were on Mars
And they ate a lot of Spam
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Childhood Obesity in the United States Is Decreasing
For the first time in years, the proportion of children who could be classified as obese decreased
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Waters Around Antarctica May Preserve Wooden Shipwrecks for Centuries
Some capsized ships may linger on the ocean floor indefinitely
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Scientists Attempt to Replace Human Taste Testers With Test Tubes
If everybody tasted differently, can you actually objectively evaluate how food tastes?
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Why Are So Many Dolphins Washing Up Dead on the East Coast?
A Smithsonian marine biologist investigates the sudden die-off of bottlenose dolphins along the Atlantic—and suspects that human activity may play a role
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One Physicist Thinks the Universe Is Not Expanding—And He Might Not Be Crazy
Christof Wetterich can also explain the “red shift” that supports the idea of the Big Bang
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How American Rich Kids Bought Their Way Into the British Elite
The nouveau riche of the Gilded Age had buckets of money but little social standing—until they started marrying their daughters to British nobles
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Who Are the 2.8 Million Non-Hispanic Americans Who Speak Spanish at Home?
There are 37.6 million Americans who speak Spanish at home, but only 34.8 million self-identify as Hispanic
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America Bet 500 Million Tiny Copper Space Wires Would Help Beat the Soviets
During the Cold War, filling space with tiny copper bits didn’t seem like such a bad idea
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Cosmic Portraits Created From Hubble Space Telescope Images
Sergio Albiac generates images of people by collecting their head shots and replacing pixels with snippets from pictures of stars and galaxies
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Why the Next Silicon Valley Will Be in the Middle East
Venture capitalist Christopher Schroeder sees the Arab Spring giving rise to a new innovative center in Egypt and beyond
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A Last-Second Surge of Brain Activity Could Explain Near-Death Experiences
Near-death sightings of light at the end of a tunnel may be related to the 30 seconds of activity in rats’ brains after their hearts stop
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People Feel Sorrier for Battered Puppies Than Adult Humans
Adult victims ranked last because they’re seen as being “capable of protecting themselves while full grown dogs are just seen as larger puppies”
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America’s Founders Were Scarily Young on July 4, 1776
How old were famous Revolutionary War figures on July 4, 1776?
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