When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, right? That, at least, is the motto the European Space Agency seems to have embraced with respect to two wayward satellites, which are being repurposed to provide the most accurate assessment yet of how gravity affects the passage of time. Read more…
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A Satellite Mishap Is Allowing Physicists to Test Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
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
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
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
Cities beefing up their smart infrastructure have tapped the ubiquitous streetlamp to track traffic data and measure pollution . Now, in Los Angeles, some streetlights will help keep the communications network intact after an emergency. Read more…
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LA’s New Streetlamps Will Keep Cell Service Running After an Earthquake
The Sunburst Diving Beetle has great eyesight, in part due to a bifocal lens. The larvae of the beetle go through multiple molting periods in their trek to adulthood—which means it reshapes its own eyes. Read more…
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This Beetle Has Built-In Biofocals
After fifteen years of providing 11th-hour copy+paste material for high schoolers, the English-language version of Wikipedia has just hit a milestone: five million articles. Read more…
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English Wikipedia Just Broke Five Million Posts
Scientists in Japan say they’ve fashioned glass that’s almost as strong as steel. Read more…
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Japanese Researchers Make Glass That’s Nearly Unbreakable
According to reliable leaker @evleaks , the big announcement at T-Mobile’s Un-carrier X event on Nov. 10 could be unlimited video streaming that doesn’t cut into your monthly data. This means Netflix and chill could go mobile. Read more…
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T-Mobile’s Next Perk Could Mean Unlimited Netflix