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Beautiful moon trail photo reveals a red streak across the sky

Photographer Janne shot this beautiful photo of a moon over the course of 37 minutes. So instead of seeing the ordinary orb we’re used to up there, Janne was able to capture a moon trail that makes our moon look like a red streak across the sky. It’s so stunning that I wish I could…

Apple and Google Are Racing to Analyze Your DNA

Technology is filled with all kinds of rumors, real and fabricated. It gives us a look at might be and will be. BitStream gathers the whispers all in one place to divine what the future has in store. Smartphones allow us to do just about anything, and soon, analyzing our DNA could be up there…

How The Sinking Of The Lusitania Heralded An Entirely New Kind Of War

A century ago today, the world’s most famous luxury liner, the Lusitania, was sunk by a German U-boat. It was a shocking incident, one that signaled a disturbing change in how the war was to be fought. It also set the U.S. on a path that would eventually lead it to war. Here’s what happened…

The Best Combined With The Worst In Last Night’s Arrow

Last night’s Arrow episode, “This Is Your Sword,” combined some really cool stuff with some very bad stuff. Some of the bad stuff was “bad” as in evil and tragic. But some of it was just bad. Thea Gets A Goodbye But No Say In Anything Running totally outside the main story is Thea’s reunion…

One Of Pathfinder’s Best RPG Campaigns Is Back, But With Sound Effects!

As the cornerstone of the campaign world of Golarion, Rise of the Runelords laid the foundation for much of Pathfinder’s success. Now there are more ways to enjoy the revised and expanded 5th-anniversary collection, with integrated encounters for Hero Lab and a custom sound effects set, so you can experience these adventures in a new…

Unused Forest Foods Could Help Solve the Global Hunger Crisis

About one in nine people globally still suffer from hunger, with the majority living in Africa and Asia. The world’s forests have great potential to improve their nutrition and ensure their livelihoods. In fact, forests could be essential to global food security, particularly when considering the importance of diverse, nutritionally-balanced diets. Forests are key to…

This Is What 15,000 Aircraft Look Like to Satellites in Space

The main task of European Space Agency’s Proba-V minisatellite is monitoring vegetation growth on our planet—but it also sees something a little higher in our atmosphere, too: signals from thousands of aircraft. The collected data contains flight information such as speed, position and altitude. Based upon all this information, experts have created this flight map…

What Hidden Gems Would You Tell Visitors To Your Locale Not Miss?

Forget the guidebooks. Today, we want to know about the much lesser known attractions near you. Maybe you want to clue us in on an unlikely, but delightful, tour you can take. Or maybe you want to tell us about an unusual feature of nature that’s easily visible there. Perhaps you want to let the…

These Neat Animations Show How CMOS and CCD Sensors Work

Ever wondered how the CMOS and CCD image sensors inside cameras work? Well, these neat animations byRaymond Sirí do a great job of explaining it. The animations show the basics of how the two sensor types capture light, make sense of it, and then send it off to be stored as an image. They were,…

Which President Greenlit A Trip To The Center Of The Earth?

In the 1820s, the Hollow Earth Theory had two powerful advocates. They went to the United States Congress to lobby for a sponsored expedition to the center of the Earth. Congress turned them down, but one president said yes. John Cleves Symmes was an American army officer, born during the Revolutionary War, who spent his…

Another Marvel Movie Character Could Be Coming Back To Life

JJ Abrams discusses honoring Star Wars’ past in The Force Awakens. Clark Gregg looks to Agents of SHIELD’s future in the MCU. Plus, teases for the finales of Once Upon A Time and Arrow, and where a potential fifth season of Person of Interest could go. To me, my Spoilers! Top image: Avengers: Age of…

The Sun Celebrated Cinco de Mayo With This Beautiful Solar Flare

If you’re gonna celebrate, do it in style. Well, the Sun did to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, spewing out this gorgeous solar flare that’s captured here in a variety of different wavelengths. The images were obtained by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on May 5th at 6:11 p.m. EDT. Each one reveals a different wavelength of…

How Nature Can Mummify Your Brain

Brain tissue is very soft and full of water, and through autolysis it usually begins to decompose rapidly after death. Nevertheless, it can sometimes be preserved. In 1998, archaeologists excavated the fossilised remains of an 18-month-old infant from a burial site near Quimper in France. The child had died about 700 years previously, and its…

New Legal Case Supports 3D-Printed Gun Blueprints Under Free Speech

It’s three years since the files to 3D-print a gun were published online by Cody Wilson. Soon after he received a letter from the State Department demanding the files be removed from the internet—and now he’s fighting that under the argument of free speech. The letter, issued by a smaller Department agency known as the…

Gates Foundation Is Opening Six New Centers to Help End Child Mortality

The Gates Foundation has announced that it’s investing $75 million into six new research centers across Africa and south Asia, that will act as a disease surveillance network to help end child mortality in the developing world. Spurred by the recent Ebola epidemic in west Africa, the Gates Foundation is creating these centers in order…

Novel About an Exorcism Reality Show Will Be a Movie 

We’re once again entering the world of movie studios buying rights to a book before it even comes out. In this case, it’s Focus Features getting ahold of Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full of Ghosts, due out June 2nd. The premise is not only interesting, but seems well-suited for adaptation to a visual medium: a…

Why do horses need hooves? Here’s a short video from the BBC which shows how hooves play into the speed and efficiency of a horse’s run.

Stick Figures Go On Amazing Adventures In a Series of Photographs

Paris-based artist Yacine Ait Kaci has an alter-ego: Elyx, a stick figure who “lives in a little notebook” but “totally shares our reality.” On Instagram, Elyx can be seen reinventing mundane parts of our world into something amazing. Yacine told theInstagram Blog: “He has the vision of a child, discovering everything as if it was…

Swatch Wants To Fix The Biggest Problem With Smartwatches

Swatch is normally a company associated with duty-free shops and 12-year-old’s birthday presents. It’s not a leader in the smartwatch market. In fact, it’s not actually in the smartwatch market. But apparently, it’s months away from solving the biggest problem with wrist computers: the battery. According to a report in Swiss newspaper Handelszeitung, Swatch has…

These Augmented Reality Hands Are Giving Me Nightmares

Evolution decided that humans should have five digits on the end of each limb. Not four. Not six. Certainly not five little hands attached to one big hand. But thanks to this art/technology/torture installation, some people got to experience what would’ve happened if Darwin screwed up. Augmented Hand Series (v.2) was a project developed by…