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
Medieval artisans unwittingly used nanotechnology when they mixed gold chloride into molten glass to create richly hued stained glass windows. Soon we could have full-color displays or stained-glass windows that change color at the flick of an electrical switch, thanks to the same kinds of light-scattering nanoparticles. Read more…
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Soon We Could Have Displays and Windows That Change Color with the Flick of a Switch
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
Southern California residents witnessed a foreign substance falling from the sky as rain swept through the region over the last 24 hours. The storm also brought huge waves to the coast which ended up smashing the city of Ventura’s pier. Read more…
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
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given the thumbs up to a genetically modified chicken that produces a drug in its eggs. It’s the latest addition to a growing area in medicine known as “ farmaceuticals .” Read more…
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The FDA Just Approved Transgenic Chickens That Make Medicine
For the first time, paleontologists have isolated original blood vessels from a dinosaur. You’re looking at the tattered fragments of the structures that channeled blood through the legs of Brachylophosaurus canadensis , a 30-foot-long hadrosaur that roamed Montana 80 million years ago. Read more…
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These Are the Blood Vessels of an 80 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur
Searching for your Google Drive files got a whole lot easier today with an update that offers an easier way to open your advanced search options, quicker ways to access files on iOS, and more options to narrow your searches. Read more…
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Google Drive Adds New Advanced Search Features to Make Finding Files Easier