Sci/Environment

Many of the stones on Death Valley’s playa floor have trails behind them as if they’ve been pushed to where they’re standing. Nobody’s ever seen them move though and there’s no sign as to what […]

A meeting of electricity company experts in Washington D.C. organized by the Bipartisan Policy Center addressed the growing concern about cybersecurity threats to the United States power grid. A meeting of electricity company experts in […]

Human beings have been spreading across earth for thousands of years. It is believed that we originated from Southern Africa around 200,000 years ago and Around 130,000 years later we migrated out of Africa and […]

What will the world look like when all the ice melts? Many experts believe that water levels in the ocean are rising as ice melts due to higher temperatures caused by climate change. Right now, […]

In September, NASA announced that the Curiosity rover found remnants of an ancient stream bed on Mars—evidence that our red neighbor was, at one point, a blue planet covered in water. Now, Kevin Gill, a […]

Number 10. Project Loon. Launching a bunch of WiFi enabled hot air balloons to circle the globe and provide connectivity where there is none sounds like a fabulous idea. Number 9. Smart Contact Lens. Packed […]

According to an article in The International Business Times (source): Humans apparently took to the mountains of Peru 900 years earlier than previously documented, U.S., Canadian and German researchers reported. An archeological team found signs […]

Megalodon didn’t make the evolutionary cut, and researchers now believe that it being wiped off the face of the Earth may be what allowed some whales to get so big. Long ago, an almost unimaginably […]

A 28-year-old Japanese man became the first person to be jailed for designing and printing 3D guns. Yoshitomo Imura reportedly printed five plastic guns, two of which could fire real bullets. The Yokohama District Court […]

The lava flow from the Kilauea volcano is headed toward the cemetery in the town of Pahoa on the Big Island of Hawaii, crossing streets and prompting evacuation notices for people living in the flow’s […]