Since early Friday morning, calls have been crackling across the Duxbury Fire Department dispatch center in a barrage of static. “Tree down on a house on Mayflower Street.” “Wires down on at Keene Street and Congress.” The seaside Massachusetts town […]
Christopher Plata doesn’t have time or patience for bad dates anymore. The 30 year-old nursing student has been trying for years to meet Mr. Right—first on Grindr and Compatible Partners (eHarmony’s queer subsidiary), and more recently on Bumble—and has yet […]
Modern robots are not unlike toddlers: It’s hilarious to watch them fall over, but deep down we know that if we laugh too hard, they might develop a complex and grow up to start World War III. None of humanity’s […]
Josh Imatorbhebhe is a wide receiver for the University of Southern California football team. And, um, he can jump crazy high. Take a close look at his vertical jump in the video above. What looks weird about it? It almost […]
One of the consequences of pumping more and more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is the changing chemistry of the world’s oceans. Until now, the ocean has acted as a big sponge, soaking up about one-third of the CO2 released […]
On my first attempt at a corner kick in decades, the soccer ball peels up and away, well behind the goal and clear over the fence surrounding Stanton Field, the practice pitch at Santa Clara University. "Not bad," says Brandi […]
This week we’re staying close to home, relatively speaking. First, we’re swinging by Mars and checking out Hale Crater. This large impact crater was created when some space object—likely an asteroid or a comet—got a bit too close and left […]
Click:What is a Star Tracker Facebook is keeping a close eye on misinformation in the lead-up to 2018's elections. Which elections, exactly? All of them, according to the team working within the company to combat fake news. That means Turkey […]
The last time I looked at random walks, I used them to calculate the value of Pi for Pi Day. But what is a random walk, really? A mathematician will tell you that it's a stochastic process—a path defined by […]
The allegations in the Justice Department’s indictment of the Internet Research Association—the Russian organization that allegedly took aim at the 2016 presidential campaign—build, page after page, in their boldness. Covert trips to the US, money spent to hire Hillary Clinton […]