Sci/Environment

The wild scene has been described by many as a real-life “Sharknado,” as more than 100 frenzied sharks pursued their prey through the surf and onto the sand at Cape Lookout National Seashore in North […]

Internet-connected cigarettes could mean you ‘pay as you puff’ as tobacco giant Philip Morris patent a device which tracks every inhalation. The patent, published earlier this week, proposes an e-cigarette that could connect to a […]

A geological study conducted by researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey and San Francisco State University is warning that four fault segments running beneath Northern California or nearby are primed for an earthquake of 6.8 […]

Corporations and governments alike are hungry for data on people. In addition to internet behavior records and mobile phone metadata, there is a little-known digital bounty they are after – voiceprints – and they’re harvesting […]

Are you invested in Monsanto stock like Bill Gates, who owns hundreds of thousand of Monsanto shares worth about $23 million? It might be time to pull out since the company just reported over $156 […]

A whale washed ashore on Long Island on Thursday with bite marks “bigger than a Chihuahua,” Kim Durham of the Riverhead Foundation told Newsday. Gothamist reports that the 58-foot fin whale was discovered about 8 […]

Fascinating article By Seth Shostak /Huffington Post (Source Link) who asks: “Do you ever wonder about the meaning of life, and in particular your life? Well, of course you do, but maybe you should ease […]

‘Do you scan your veins before accessing your bank account? Use a microchip implanted in your hand to pay for your groceries? Or have a tattoo on your wrist that can unlock your smartphone? If […]

Tesla and SpaceX C.E.O. Elon Musk said he was worried that people didn’t understand how fast artificial intelligence was progressing, and expressed his concern that, in a worst-case scenario, a “super-intelligent” machine might decide to […]