Japanese researchers have successfully cloned a mouse from a drop of blood taken from a donor’s tail. The breakthrough means that animals don’t have to be euthanized when extracting their cells, which could prove important if we’re ever going to clone endangered animals. Read more…
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Scientists Clone a Mouse From a Single Drop of Blood
We’ve all seen those pop-up ads peddling discount prescription drugs from Canadian pharmacies. Ohhhh! Cheap Xanax! They always seem a little dubious, but as of this week, you’re probably going to see fewer of them. In partnership with international regulatory and law enforcement agencies, the FDA has just shut down 1,677 illegal online pharmacies, and seized a whopping $41,104,386 worth of illegal drugs. Read more…
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The FDA Has Shuttered 1,677 Illegal Prescription Drugs Websites
The Drug Enforcement Agency has seized 11.02 Bitcoins —about $800—from a drug dealer in South Carolina who had been using Silk Road. It’s the first (known) time the government has taken control of the virtual currency like it were property or real-world cash. Read more…
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Drug Enforcement Agency Seizes First Bitcoins From Silk Road Dealer
Microsoft rolls out the next version of windows, 8.1, at its annual Build developers conference today. It’s a big deal. Windows 8 was a crazy ambitious step, what follows is just as important. This is what Microsoft’s taken from your months of feedback (or just, yelling). Read more…
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Windows 8.1: Everything You Need to Know
Late last year, Canadian astronomer Philip Gregory made the controversial claim that there are three habitable zone super-Earths orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 667C. Now, in a separate study, a group of European astronomers are saying he was right. Read more…
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Confirmed: A Star System with Three Potentially Habitable Planets!
In iOS 7, Siri’s voice is becoming less robotic and more human (we’ll have to wait and see if she’s more useful). One of those improvements will be how she pronounces names. Instead of butchering your name or choppily spelling out letters of your friends’ names, she’ll be able to be ‘taught’ what the correct pronunciation is. Read more…
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Siri Actually Cares How Names Are Pronounced in iOS 7
A million of anything is pretty much always an insanely impossible number. Winning a million dollars, having a million Twitter followers, selling a million products—anything done a million times is something to be proud of. But maybe not getting your song streamed on Pandora a million times. All you get sometimes is 16 measly dollars. Or $16.89 to be exact. Read more…
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An Artist Got 16 Bucks for a Song That Pandora Streamed a Million Times
Sabine Pearlman ‘s photographs find beauty in the destructive engineering of ammunition with this series of cross-sections of bullets cartridges from a Swiss bunker. They reveal the complexity inside each case. Read more…
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Cross-section photographs of bullets are strangely fascinating
We are thrilled to announce Neil deGrasse Tyson will narrate the Museum’s newest Space Show, premiering this fall at the Hayden Planetarium. Read more…
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We Got a Narrator Over Here: Neil Tyson to Voice Planetarium Show
We are thrilled to announce Neil deGrasse Tyson will narrate the Museum’s newest Space Show, premiering this fall at the Hayden Planetarium. Read more…
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We Got a Narrator Over Here: Neil Tyson to Voice Planetarium Show