After anticipating extra long airport security lines this year , the Transportation Security Administration has taken steps to fix the problem. Their latest solution involves adding new screening technology to Chicago (O’Hare), Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, and Miami. They’ll also include a pilot program in Phoenix. Read more…
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Five Airports Are Set to Get Automated TSA Security Screening Lanes
For over a century, paleoanthropologists have been fascinated by a gory question: were Neanderthals cannibals? In recent years, we’ve found remains that suggest cannibalism did exist in various parts of southern Europe but new remains found in northern Europe add further evidence to the “yes” answer and tell us more about why cannibalism was practiced. Read more…
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Neanderthals Ate Each Other and Used Their Bones as Tools
You have hundreds of ways to view the weather, but if you’re looking for an elegant desktop solution, DIYer caturnuson shares their lovely looking Pi-powered forecast display. Read more…
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Build a Raspberry Pi-Powered Weather Forecast Display
History has left us with many wonders, sometimes buried in elaborate vaults or ornate tombs. Other times, artifacts of times past are found in somewhat sophisticated surroundings. Take for instance, the Museum of the American Revolution’s latest 82, 000-piece haul—found in 300-year-old toilets in Philadelphia. Read more…
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You Won’t Believe the Shit They Found in Philadelphia’s 18th-Century Toilets
Earlier this year, Japan launched a groundbreaking black-hole-monitoring satellite—only to lose control of it almost immediately under strange circumstances. Now, we finally can see what Hitomi did right before it died. Read more…
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This Is the Last Thing Japan’s Lost Black Hole Satellite Saw Before It Died
Your car is a big expensive machine that, over its life, will cost you a ton in maintenance. If you learn to do some of those jobs yourself , you can save a ton of cash. Replacing your brake pads, for example, is one of those jobs that sounds much harder than it is, and we’re going to walk you through it from start to finish. Read more…
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How to Change Your Car’s Brake Pads
By 2026, there’s going to be a lot less hunger worldwide—and that’s something to celebrate. The reason is not that we’re growing more food, however. Food is just getting cheaper. Read more…
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Why World Hunger Is Going to Fall to Its Lowest Levels Ever This Decade
It’s been a bad couple of days / months / lifetime for the Transport Security Administration, but there’s some good news. The much loathed government agency is going to try to make airport screening less terrible with fancy new automated security checkpoints. Read more…
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The TSA Is About to Make Airport Security Less Terrible
Scientists at MIT have designed an ingenious new concept for a battery that operates on the same fundamental principal as an hourglass—it relies on gravity to generate energy. They described the device in a recent paper for Energy and Environmental Science . Read more…
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This ‘Hourglass’ Liquid Battery Runs on Gravity
Good news! You’ve made it to the weekend. And I know what I’ll be doing while everyone else is out grilling beneath the summer sun: playing Nintendo games on my computer thanks to a newly updated emulator. Read more…
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Remains of the Day: GameCube Emulation Just Got Way Better