Back in the early 1960s, Dr Stewart Adams had a bad hangover. So he did what many a confident scientist of the time might do: he took a handful of an experimental drug he was working on. It worked—and the compound went on to become known as ibuprofen. Read more…
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How a Bad Hangover Helped Discover Ibuprofen
The hardest part of building a PC is picking the parts, especially when everyone around you seems to have an opinion. And no flame war is more prevalent than the NVIDIA snobs vs the AMD fanboys. What’s really going on with these two companies, and which card should you get? Read more…
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PC Graphics Card Showdown: NVIDIA vs. AMD
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, right? That, at least, is the motto the European Space Agency seems to have embraced with respect to two wayward satellites, which are being repurposed to provide the most accurate assessment yet of how gravity affects the passage of time. Read more…
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A Satellite Mishap Is Allowing Physicists to Test Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
If your Mac’s app updates are acting a little weird, you’re not alone. A security management slip-up means that some software updates might actually require a delete and reinstall to work properly. Read more…
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Faulty Security Certificates Are Screwing Up Some Mac App Store Updates
The cockroach is a resilient little beast, and now it turns out they have the proverbial jaws of death. They can bite with a force 50 times stronger than their own body weight, and with five times more force than a human being. Read more…
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A Cockroach Can Bite Five Times Stronger Than a Human
If you take the Empire State building, flipped it over to the side, and then put it in the ocean, it would be smaller than some of the world’s largest ships. That’s how big these behemoths of the sea are, more gigantic than skyscrapers. Oil tankers, container ships, pipe-laying vessels, yachts, sailing boats, cruise ships and more, we’ve got all the world’s largest ships still in service today. At times, the scale is just unfathomable. Read more…
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Here are all of the world’s biggest ships at sea
schwit1 writes: “This might come as a surprise to California natives in their 20s and early 30s: The state owns your DNA. Every year about four million newborns in the U.S. get a heel prick at birth, to screen for congenital disorders, that if found early enough, can save their life.” However, when those tests are done, the leftover blood isn’t simply thrown away. Instead, they’re taken to an office building and the DNA data is stored in a database. “It’s a treasure trove of information about you, from the color of your eyes and hair to your pre-disposition to diseases like Alzheimer’s and cancer.” And that’s not the end of it: “The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is not the only agency using the blood spots. Law enforcement can request them. Private companies can buy them to do research – without your consent.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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DNA Data From California Newborn Blood Samples Stored, Sold To 3rd Parties
The 300-year-old linen-lined trunk is filled with over 2, 600 letters that were mailed out—but never received—between the years 1680 and 1706. Historians are now taking a closer look. Read more…
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This Rediscovered Leather Trunk Contains Thousands of Letters From the 17th Century
The helpfulness of verifying and repairing file permissions in OS X is debatable , and in OS X El Capitan, Apple’s removed the option from Disk Utility altogether, favoring repairing permissions automatically. Some crazy circumstance might come up where you have to do it manually though, which is why OS X Daily points out the command line method is useful. Read more…
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Verify and Repair Permissions from the Command Line in OS X El Capitan
Inspired by bioluminescent organisms, the DIY biohackers at Grindhouse Wetware have unveiled their latest creation—a magnetically activated, LED-equipped silicone implant. Read more…
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The Latest Trend Among Biohackers Is Implanting LED Lights Beneath Your Skin