Jun 15 2015
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This spring, an 80-year-old Japanese chalk company went out of business. Nobody, perhaps, was as sad to see the…
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Jun 12 2015
22
We take it for granted that urinals flush. With each pull of the lever, gallons of clean water come to whisk away a…
Jun 11 2015
11
The story of kuru, as classically told in biology textbooks, is a tragic one. The Fore population in Papua New…
Jun 10 2015
5
Yeast labs have a distinctive smell—a bready scent familiar to bakers and brewers. But the frozen test tube of yeast…
Jun 9 2015
12
Dinosaurs fossils, we’ve all been taught, consist of bone—their flesh, skin, and organs having decayed long ago. But…
Jun 9 2015
4
There is no permanent solution for Fukushima’s radioactive water, which has been leaking out of storage tanks again…
Jun 8 2015
6
Ever since humans started building tall things, birds have been pooping on them, including high-voltage power lines.…
Jun 5 2015
2
French scientists have created the first synthetic polymers that can store information as bits of 0s and 1s. You…
Jun 4 2015
4
Since 2012, the US has held the title of world’s number one wood pellet exporter. What’s the big deal with wood…
Jun 4 2015
23
Every time a virus gets you sick, your immune system keeps a record. This essentially becomes a kill list that lets…
Jun 4 2015
16
The dream of regrowing limbs? It’s just gotten one step closer. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have…
Jun 3 2015
9
Tri Alpha Energy does not have a website. Its office in California is unmarked. But this stealth company apparently…
Jun 3 2015
13
The physicists who invented the nuclear bomb worked out of Los Alamos in New Mexico, but the people who did the…
Jun 2 2015
3
It is not easy for a human to traverse the deep, cold waters of Antarctica. It is easy, however, for seals to swim…
Jun 2 2015
15
The summer after I graduated from college, I took an RA job on campus that gave me a lot of free time, but not much…
May 28 2015
15
Graphene, already a plenty weird wondermaterial, has an unexpected new property that could one day play a role in…
May 28 2015
1
Inbox, aka Google’s attempt at fixing the cesspool that is email, is no longer invite only. You can download it…
May 28 2015
2
There is gold out there on asteroids. Silver and platinum and titanium, too. And if we’re seriously going to mine…
May 27 2015
8
The U.S. Air Force’s supersecret X-37B was launched into orbit for the fourth time last week, and amateur satellite…
May 27 2015
2
Glaciology is in the middle of a slow-moving crisis. As the climate warms, glaciers are shrinking and then…