Connecting a hard drive to your home network is a smart idea: it can let you access your files no matter where you are. But now it seems that, in some cases, Google has been indexing the private files held on such devices. Read more…
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Has Your Network-Connected Back-Up Drive Been Indexed By Search Engines?
There is just something unexplainably awesome about carnivorous plants eating things. It’s like nature’s revenge mixed with some alien imagination, like if these plants were grown from a different planet. Watch these carnivorous plants grow and chomp at bugs in this wonderful time lapse. Read more…
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Watching carnivorous plants eat bugs is strangely therapeutic
This report on a 4-acre spider web covering a building has made shiver and curl in disgust. You are looking at the Baltimore Wastewater Treatment Plant, where 4 acres of their facility were covered by a spider web made by an estimated 107 million spiders. That’s 35, 176 spiders per cubic meter! Read more…
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4-acre spider web may be the grossest thing you will see this Halloween*
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day features an amazing photo by Phill Round. It looks like a frame from a Spielberg movie—an humanoid figure appearing at the base of a mountain, with the unknown starry sky of an alien world behind it. In reality, it’s a man getting into N ew Zealand’s Hollow Hill Cave. Read more…
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This amazing starry sky is a cave full of glowworms in New Zealand
Have you been listening to SOMETHING LOUD? If so, you might have a ringing in your ears—but what, exactly, causes it? Read more…
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What Makes Your Ears Ring?
The nearest Earth-like planet is only 16 light-years away from us. It has a mass that is more than five times the mass of the Earth and it orbits a red dwarf star that has half the mass and radius of our sun. Read more…
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This Is The Most Earth-Like Planet Discovered Yet
In some parts of the world a mosquito bite is a minor inconvenience that might result in a few days of uncomfortable itching. In other parts, though, the pests spread deadly diseases like malaria and dengue fever. So for the 2014 World Health Day, ad agency Leo Burnett created the world’s first mosquito-repelling newspaper in Sri Lanka. Read more…
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Citronella Ink Helps This Clever Newspaper Keep Mosquitoes At Bay
Bike locks, while incredibly necessary, are way behind the times. Even the best of them will break under brute force, and then where are you? Bikeless and alone. The new Skylock , from ex-Boeing and Jawbone engineers, is about to leapfrog the competition and bring bike protection into the 21st century. It looks amazing. Read more…
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Skylock Is the Bike Lock of the Future, and It’s Awesome
Undersea energy pipelines constitute a vital physical link between deep water wells and onshore refineries, but it’s not like we can just lay these lines like oversized bendy straws. That task of constructing and sinking these tubes instead falls to vessels like Allseas’ newest addition to its pipelaying fleet, the Audacia. Read more…
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The Audacia Lays 100 Feet of Pipe On the Ocean Floor Every Minute
It’s been half a century since Belgium’s famed Sarolea motorcycle brand last put out a bike but they’re clearly making up for lost time with the incomprehensibly gorgeous, all-electric-and-carbon-fiber SP7. And to prove they’re back in the superbike game, Sarolea is entering this black beauty into next month’s electric-only, Isle of Man TT Zero race. Read more…
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The Sarolea Superbike Is a Lightning-Powered Speed Demon