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Could Your Browser Make You a Better Employee?
The answer could be yes…if you use Firefox or Chrome
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A Special Facility in England Keeps the World’s Chocolate Safe
The cocoa tree is very sensitive to disease and pests, so someone checks every plant bound for international trade
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The First Green Beer Was Made With Laundry Whitener
Before food coloring, St. Patrick’s Day’s most festive brew got its hue from a different kind of dye
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Slime Mold Has an Uncannily Accurate Sense of Where Rome Built Its Roads
The strange organisms are remarkably good at mapping the most efficient route from place to place—and that’s exactly what roads do
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Scientists Have Been Studying Two Fake Human Pheromones for Decades
Two chemicals provided by a perfume company appear in a 1991 research paper and side-track years of work on human pheromones
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There’s an Invader in the International Space Station
An Invader mosaic has found its way to space
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Now the Turing Test Goes Visual
A proposed test would have computer programs not only pick out what is in a photo but what is happening
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Celebrating the Women of the Supreme Court With LEGOs
What better way to hail the female trailblazers of the bench than miniaturizing them into tiny toys?
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When Even the Simplest Word Looks Weird And Wrong You Have Wordnesia
We don’t really know why it happens, but at least there is a term for it
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London’s Congestion Pricing Plan Is Saving Lives
By charging $17.34 for a trip downtown during peak hours, London has reduced traffic fatalities by 40 percent
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Why’s Wikimedia Suing the NSA?
Wikimedia Foundation joins Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and others to protest mass surveillance online
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How Dick Tracy Invented the Smartwatch
The detective’s two-way wrist radio paved the way for the Apple Watch and other wearables
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From dancing cranes to protective structures, origami is popping up in science and tech
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NASA’s Next Space Robot Was Inspired by a Baby’s Toy
Meet the Super Ball Bot, a flexible robot that could explore new planets
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Microsoft Billionaire Finds Enormous Sunken Japanese Battleship
Paul Allen used his megayacht to locate the long-lost ship, which has been missing since World War II
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The FCC Just Voted to Preserve Net Neutrality
FCC passes “Preserving the Open Internet” rules by 3-2 vote
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See Shipping Traffic Move Through Straits Around the World
A visualization shows a week’s worth of vessel movement
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Amsterdam Is Out of Bike Parking
The city will create 40,000 new bike parking spaces by 2030
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Save the Birds By Embarrassing Your Cat
Outfitting cats in colorful collars may be one key to preventing them from effectively preying on birds and other small animals
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