Looking more like a wisp of stellar smoke than anything else, these shockwaves are anything but gentle. The twisted mass is part of the Veil Nebula, the remnants of a star that now tears through space. Read more…
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These Are the Twisted Shockwaves Produced By an Exploding Star
iOS 8.2 is coming today, bringing with it no doubt the new Apple Watch app. Start your iPhones. Read more…
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iOS 8.2 is coming today, bringing with it no doubt the new Apple Watch app.
Chemotherapy is a brutal but often life-saving treatment for an even worse disease. It can also reduce a patient’s white blood cell count, which hinders the body’s ability to fight off infections. Injections of Neulasta (pegfilgrastim) can help boost white blood cells, if given exactly a day later. That’s where this sticker comes in handy. Read more…
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This Sticker Automatically Injects Meds When a Chemo Patient Can’t
This time lapse shows what 24 hours of a summer day (and I guess, a summer night) looks like in the Arctic Circle. You can see the Sun rising and setting like it normally does anywhere else but instead of disappearing beyond the horizon as the Earth turns, it pops right back up and the world never turns dark. Read more…
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What it looks like in the Arctic Circle when the Sun never sets
I first heard of Girl Scout Cookies a few years ago, shortly after I got my prescription for cannabis in California. I went into my local dispensary and asked for whatever buds they had that smelled the nicest. “Have you tried Girl Scout Cookies ?” the woman behind the counter asked. “It’s famous.” Read more…
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Girl Scout Cookies, or California’s Most Notorious Strain of Cannabis
If there ever was a strong case for a false advertising lawsuit, it would involve the box art that accompanied the countless video games released in the ’80s. Rarely did the artwork match the visuals in the actual game, but instead of taking companies like Atari to court, artist Dan Polydoris has turned the characters on the boxes into actual action figures. Read more…
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Perfect Custom Action Figures Based On Classic Atari Video Game Box Art
Transparency, thy name sure as hell ain’t Hillary Clinton. During her time as Secretary of State, Clinton went to extreme lengths to ensure that her emails would stay private. Not only did she exclusively use a personal email address, she even rigged up her own homebrew computer server that routed back to her house instead of relying on government email servers. Read more…
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Hillary Clinton Also Ran Her Own Email Server As Secretary of State
Inspiration lies in the strangest of places—and for researchers at the Agency for Science, Technology & Research in Singapore, that includes the eye of moth. A new antireflective coating inspired by the creature’s ocular faculties could help bump up the efficiency of solar cells. Read more…
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How a Moth’s Eye Could Help Improve the Efficiency of Solar Cells
Hillary Clinton’s burgeoning presidential campaign is not off to a good start. Just a day after papers reported that the former Secretary of State would make a bid for the nation’s highest office in April, The New York Times reports that Hillary Clinton used only her personal email address while serving as Secretary of State . This is bad. Read more…
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Hillary Clinton Hid Her Emails While Secretary of State and That’s Bad
When Android 5.0 Lollipop launched, Google proudly claimed that full-disk encryption was a standard feature , enabled by default. But now phones with the OS are starting to appear in the wild, that appears not to be the case. Read more…
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Android 5.0 Devices Aren’t Encrypted By Default—Despite Google Promises