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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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The Fracking Boom Could Burn Out Decades Before It’s Supposed To
Overenthusiastic shale gas estimates may be setting the world up for a fracking crash
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Half the Cells in This Mouse’s Brain Are Human
Researchers implanted immature human brain cells in mouse pups, which then grew and replaced nearly half the mice’s own cells
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The Largest Manmade Block Ever Was Just Discovered in Lebanon
The block was never used, likely because it was too big to transport
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Welcome to the Next Era of NASA Spaceflight…to Mars
NASA’s long-distance crew capsule, Orion, will get its first test flight tomorrow
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Public Bathroom Bacteria: Not as Gross as You’d Think
Public restrooms are of no more of a health risk than your own home
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MIT Is Giving Its Students Bitcoin
Researchers interested in studying how people use Bitcoin are handing out $100 worth of the currency to whoever wants it
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Richard III’s DNA Analysis Reveals Cuckoldry in the Family
Researchers can trace the monarch’s maternal lineage to modern relatives, but not the male side
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HIV’s Ability to Cause AIDS Is Weakening
A combination of advanced treatments and viral evolution are slowing virus’ reproduction
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