New York City will definitely not be having a White Christmas, but when winter finally does arrive, sanitation trucks will be hauling some of the city’s snow-melting salt out of this quite beautiful sculpture. Turns out this is also an incredible story about how city buildings can be done right. Read more…
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NYC’s Road Salt Is Being Stored in a Building That Looks Like a Giant Crystal
Researchers in France have developed a self-setting foam that can repair defects in bones and assist growth. Eventually, this advanced biomaterial could be used to quickly regenerate bone growth and treat degenerative diseases such as osteoporosis. Read more…
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Scientists Create Injectable Foam To Repair Degenerating Bones
Looking for some way to justify that $70, 000 Tesla Model S? Well, how about this: starting today, Model S owners in some countries will have free in-car access to Spotify Premium. At $10 saved per month, that’s only 583 years until you break even! Read more…
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Tesla Model S Owners Now Get Free In-Car Spotify
We’re one step closer to being able to regrow a lost tooth, thanks to a new study showing it’s possible to grow multiple teeth from a single root. These teeth can then be implanted to become fully functional. Thus far it has only been tested in rats, but it could lead to a potential revolution in human dental care. Read more…
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We’re One Step Closer to Being Able to Regrow a Lost Tooth
This protective lens filter might look like any other, but it’s got an invisible secret. Making use of a new kind of clear ceramic, it’s ten times tougher than most conventional protective filters, so is virtually guaranteed to keep yours lens perfectly safe. Read more…
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Clear Ceramic Makes This Filter 10x Tougher Than Your Usual Lens Protector
New York City has plenty of parks that revamp aging transit infrastructure: The High Line transforms a decrepit elevated rail route , the Lowline reclaims forgotten tunnels . But neither of those is as ambitious as the Green Line, a concept that would turn a major street into a linear park. Read more…
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A Totally Feasible Plan to Turn Manhattan’s Busiest Street Into a 40-Block Park
Seattle City Council has unanimously passed a bill allowing drivers for Uber, Lyft, and other ride-hailing services to form unions . Read more…
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Seattle City Council Just Passed a Bill to Let Uber and Lyft Drivers Unionize
This snail is happily hanging upside down from what looks like a mirror, but it’s actually the surface of the sea. The violet snail spends its adult life surfing from place to place on a bubble raft. Read more…
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This Snail Lives Its Life Upside Down on a Bubble Raft
Scattered hand bones, severed arms, cracked skulls: if one thing is clear from this Neolithic burial pit, it’s that some some serious shit went down 6, 000 years ago. Read more…
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6,000 Year Old Death Pit Points to One Hell of a Brawl
It looks like an alien parasite come to invade our brains, but the truly bizarre creature pictured above is a mud dragon—a tiny worm, roughly half the size of a grain of rice, that squirmed about the seafloor 530 million years ago. It’s one of the first fossils of a mud dragon ever discovered, and it could help scientists answer some big evolutionary questions. Read more…
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This Ancient Armored Mud Dragon Could Help Solve an Evolutionary Mystery