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Garmin’s New Bike Light Looks Farther Ahead the Faster You Ride

As part of its new Varia line of smart cycling devices, Garmin just introduced a couple of lightning options that promise to make it safer for cyclists riding at night. And not only when it comes to visibility but also because they help riders keep their eyes glued on the road. When connected to one…

Sorry Ikea, This Robotic Arm Prints Furniture Any Shape or Size I Want

This robot that can spin together 3D-printed furniture could really get your creative juices flowing. And maybe eventually inspire the world to nix sectional couches once and for all. Meet Galatéa, the honking, seafoam-colored robot arm that looks like road construction equipment. “She” was invented by engineer Sylvain Charpiot, founder of French startup Drawn. Galatéa…

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Discusses Why Sandman is a Movie and Not a TV Show

Scott Lang learns how to take a punch in new Ant-Man footage. The Minority Report TV show casts a major lead. The Vampire Diaries is adding a new lesbian couple. Plus, set reports from X-Files filming, the cast and crew talk new characters coming to The Flash, and a new teaser for Hannibal. Behold, Spoilers!…

The Southern Lights Look Beautiful Through Satellite Eyes

The infrared eye of the Suomi NPP satellite captured this amazingly atmospheric light show created by the southern lights—aka aurora australis—over Antarctica before dawn on the 24th of June 2015. The view was captured by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) “day-night band” (DNB) aboard the satellite, which detects dim light signals such as…

What makes you happy to eat lobster, but still balk at eating larvae? Nature took an overview of the strategies to get people eating insects. The appeal of environmental or nutrition benefits fall short, instead better presentation and taste are what get bugs on your plate.

Can Lightning Strike an Indoor Pool?

Two swimming pool weather policies have surprised me in recent years. One was when I showed up to swim laps at an outdoor pool as it was beginning to drizzle. “Come on in,” I was told; as long as there was no lightning, the pool was still open. So I had one of my weirdest…

How to Listen to Apple’s Beats 1 Radio Station on Android, Right Now

Your friends that use iOS and OS X have been babbling about Apple Music and Beats 1, but you use an Android phone and are feeling left out. Well, now there’s a “very unofficial” way to listen along. While the official Apple Music app won’t arrive on Android until the fall, Twitter user Benji R…

A deserted farmhouse that has been untouched inside since the 1940s will soon be up for auction. See the house-turned-time-capsule at theCoventry Telegraph website.

There Are Weird Undeveloped Sperm in Your Semen (But No Need to Worry)

Doctors have long observed odd, circular cells in semen. They resemble undeveloped sperm, but scientists have been unable to work out how or why they appear—until now. Whenever a sperm sample is checked, healthy swimmers are counted along with the mysterious round cells. They’re often assumed to be underdeveloped sperm, but sometimes classified as white…

Mark Zuckerberg on VR, AI and Sending Thoughts Over the Internet

Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg ran a Q&A on Facebook, answering questions about the future of the social network, its technology and the Internet more generally. Here are some of the choice cuts. We’ve already covered his first public statements on real names and LGBT users. But elsewhere in the Q&A his discussed some of the less…

How Bigger Atoms Could Help Make Smaller “Lab-on-a-Chip” Devices

“Lab-on-a-chip” devices – which can carry out several laboratory functions on a single, micro-sized chip – are the result of a quiet scientific revolution over the past few years. For example, they enable doctors to make complex diagnoses instantly from a single drop of blood. In the future, shrinking such devices to extremely small sizes,…

Long Ago, a Ship Entered a Lake And Became an Island For The Lost

On these small islands, spindly rock formations are the only hints of the dark magic that transformed the original ships into monuments to angering the local mages. Alternately, it’s an island called Phantom Ship located in Crater Lake in Oregon. Lots of inspiration in both the island and lake names. Contact the author at [email protected].…

Here Are All the Ways Scientists Propose to Protect Earth From Asteroids

In a short, informative video, the American Museum of Natural History explains all the proposals for deflecting asteroids. Sadly, the plan from Armageddon is not on the list. Happy asteroid day! Here’s a bunch of reasons not to be too frightened of them. Contact the author at [email protected].

FBI Investigating Attacks On Physical Internet Infrastructure In SF

Squads of Chinese hackers aren’t the only threat to internet infrastructure in the US, it would seem: the FBI is reportedly investigating “at least 11” physical attacks on high-capacity internet cables in the Bay Area dating back a year. According to a report in USA Today, agents have confirmed that they are looking into a…

Creepypasta spawned the Slender Man, and now it’s invading TV, thanks to a new horror anthology series on SyFy, Channel Zero. The first season will be based on the internet horror forum-derived “Candle Cove,” a short story about a sinister TV show (meta!); future seasons will focus on other tales.

Here’s Hillary Clinton Working Out How to Use a Fax Machine

This evening, the State Department released another trove of Hillary Clinton’s emails from her time as secretary of state. Among the gems being uncovered is this terse exchange, a wonderful insight into trying to use a fax machine in the modern age. Anyone who’s tech-supported their parents over email can definitely relate. The full email…

Sprint Instantly Regrets Shady-As-Hell Video Throttling Policy

Early this morning, Sprint announced a new ‘All-In’ wireless plan with unlimited data, throttled to 600kbps for anyone trying to stream videos. The internet’s resounding ‘hell no’ showed Sprint the error of its ways, and it has now changed that explicit throttling policy to a more vaguely-worded (but no less shady) one. Sprint’s All-In plan…

What the sky would look like if you could see all the asteroids

Here’s a really cool visualization from astronomer Scott Manley that shows what our sky might look like if we could actually see all the asteroids. Asteroids aren’t visible to the naked eye because they’re too small to register but Manley was able to reveal the known asteroids and speed them up to exaggerate how they…

Mark Zuckerberg Wants You To Read Iain M. Banks’ Player Of Games

The founder of Facebook is reading a book every two weeks, and discussing it with the Facebook community. And his next selection is The Player of Games, one of the amazing Culture novels by Iain M. Banks. Writes Zuckerberg: This is a change of pace from all the recent social science books. Instead, it’s a…

See a Plane’s Eye View of a Red Sprite Forming Above the Clouds

Red sprites are poorly-understood atmospheric phenomena. They are bright glowing shapes that temporarily appear above the clouds. The Florida Institute of Technology has captured high-speed video of a sprite in action. Above is a picture of a red sprite taken from the International Space Station. The sprite is the faint smudge of red directly above…