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
Police arrested a suspect today for posting threats against University of Missouri students on bulletin-board style messaging app Yik Yak . This isn’t the first time a jackass has been arrested in connection with making threats on the app—because Yik Yak is not anonymous . Read more…
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Asshole Gets Busted Because Yik Yak’s Not Really Anonymous
Astronomers have discovered a rocky, Earth-sized planet 39 light years from home—right in our cosmic backyard. With a surface temperature of 440 degrees Fahrenheit, GJ 1132b is more of an intergalactic furnace than a vacation prospect. Yet some are hailing it “the most important planet ever found outside our solar system.” Read more…
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An Earth-Sized Neighbor May Be the Most Important Exoplanet Yet
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
Even though at least seven autonomous car programs swear they’ll be street-ready by 2020, the truth is that US cities are woefully unprepared for this reality. Only six percent of the US’s largest cities include any language about self-driving vehicles in their long-range transportation plans. Read more…
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Self-Driving Cars Will Be On Roads by 2020 But No US Cities Will Likely Be Ready
Now this is some engineering. You’re looking at a model—though sadly, not a working one—of the propulsion systems that will power the Orion European Service Module (ESM). Read more…
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This Is What the Orion Service Module’s Propulsion System Looks Like
Conventional wisdom says that brains don’t fossilize, but these seven fossilized brains beg to differ. Read more…
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Scientists Have Found Fossilized Brains
Not that you need another reminder that government cybersecurity is screwed, but here we are: After a four-year federal probe, contractors will pay a combined $12.75 million in civil penalties to settle a suit alleging that they let Russian programmers write military code. Read more…
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IT Contractors Who Let Russians Write Military Code Will Pay $12.7 Million
Infectious diseases like polio and malaria might be gone in 15 years because the founder of Microsoft devoted a foundation to eradicating them. Now Bill Gates has turned his attention towards our global energy crisis, which he thinks can also be fixed with better R&D. And, yes, he’s going to fund it. Read more…
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Bill Gates Says Our Energy System Is Broken And He’s Giving $2 Billion To Fix It
In the ‘90s, Sennheiser asked it engineers to make the best headphones ever and the result was 300 sets of the legendary Orpheus , each pair of which sold for $16, 000. Now, Sennheiser has created an ever better-sounding successor to those luxurious cans—but they’ll set you back $55, 000. Read more…
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Sennheiser’s Built Probably the World’s Best Headphones—But They Cost $55,000