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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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Is That Pill a Placebo? This Program Can Tell, Even If You Can’t
A new algorithm could make it faster and less expensive to develop new painkillers
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LED Skylights Perfectly Mimic Natural Sunlight
The lights fool human brains and camera eyes
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Found: A New Tool in the Fight Against HIV
New approach offers “vaccine-like” protection against HIV
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Only 1 in 4 Americans Would Take a Free Space Flight
Americans are still skeptical about some aspects of space travel
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This Teeny Chair Can Assemble Itself
A tiny prototype developed at MIT marks one of the first steps into a world where we’ll never need an Allen wrench again
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Is DNA the Solution for Permanent Data Storage?
New study uses “synthetic fossils” to store data for the ages
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Is Our Universe Supersymmetric?
Scientists hope the rebooted Large Hadron Collider could find supersymmetric particles—the next frontier of particle physics
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19th-Century Sexual Advice: No Sex Before Meals
The rest of the tips are even farther from any sort of modern scientific basis
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Britain’s First Driverless Car Stays on the Sidewalk
The car’s 15 mile-per-hour speed limit keeps things safe
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Jailing People Has Little Effect on Crime Levels
At some point, the data indicates, more people in prison doesn’t translate to fewer crimes
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Technology from ‘Interstellar’ Could Be Useful to Scientists, Too
The movie’s visual effects are now being used for scientific research
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