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An in-depth investigation of five cities using police body cameras highlights what the technology addresses and what it doesn’t
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Norwegian Nobel Winners Release Their Inner Avant-Garde Musicians
Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine repurposed a Norse folk tune for a science lecture
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California’s Ongoing Drought Is Its Worst in 1,200 Years
Tree ring records unveil the severity of California’s drought
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Someone Walked Off With a Picasso From a Miami Beach Art Festival
An $85,000 silver plate went missing late last week
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The Science of the Red Sea’s Parting
It is physically and scientifically possible for a body of water to part
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Queen Victoria Dreamed Up the White Wedding Dress in 1840
For most people, wearing a white wedding dress wasn’t really a thing until the 1950s
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That Detox Diet Is Not Going to Rid Your Body of Toxins
It doesn’t matter how many pureed veggies you drink, they won’t vaporize those mysterious “poisons” you’ve heard about
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It’s Possible to See Exoplanets Without Schmancy Equipment
A cheap DSLR and some light computer processing can unveil far off exoplanets
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Like Underwater Jedi, Electric Eels Can Remotely Control Other Fish
Electric eels can shock prey into both revealing their positions and freezing in place
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Creep Through Albert Einstein’s Love Letters
The Digital Einstein archive offers a look into the great physicist’s writings
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A Successful First Flight For NASA’s Orion Spacecraft
American spaceflight enters a new era
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Listen to the Sounds of a Dying Coral Reef
Healthy coral reefs produce a medley of sounds that ocean creatures use as homing beacons
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Found in “Penny Papers” from the 1800s, A Lost Walt Whitman Poem
A professor at the University of Nebraska stumbled upon an ode to Whitman’s contemporary William Cullen Bryant
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Humpback Whales in the Arabian Sea Have Been Isolated for 70,000 Years
Conservationists want this particular population of humpbacks to be classified as critically endangered
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Bats Have Specific Brains Cells for Tracking Their Location While in Flight
Humans likely carry the same kind of cells in our own brains
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Let Wildlife Recordings From the 1930s Take You Back to Nature
Hear African wildlife from the 1930s with the British Library’s nature sound archives
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Goodbye CAPTCHA: Just Click a Box to Prove You’re Not a Robot
Google is getting rid of spam bots and annoying squiggly text at the same time
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A Wayward Boat And Other Disruptions Delay Test of NASA’s Newest Spaceship
Orion’s quest for space will have to wait until tomorrow
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A Worm’s Gut Could Help Dispose of Plastic Trash
Microbes found in the guts of waxworms like to feast on polyethylene
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Tour the Great Wide World of Mushroom Cloud Imagery
Nuclear testing yielded far more, and more diverse, images of mushroom clouds than those that are commonly shown
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