Two years after flight MH370 went missing, the search continues
It's two years to the day since Malaysia Airlines flight 370 mysteriously went off course and disappeared over the Indian Ocean. It remains one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.The search for...
View ArticleYoung Saudis turn to social media in droves to find a little bit of freedom
About 75 percent of the Saudi population is under the age of 30. These young Saudis, just like their peers across the world, are using social media at a dizzying rate.A recent BBC Trending series...
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Watercolor? Look closer. It's a climate change graph!
Jill Pelto’s watercolor paintings are vivid portrayals of beautiful landscapes and wildlife. But a closer look reveals scientific data underlying the art, in subtle line graphs that convey information...
View ArticleSeven miles under the ocean, it's a lot noisier than we thought
Humans for the very first time have an idea of what the deep sea sounds like, far away from the world of people and machines.And it’s not at all what scientists expected.“I expected it to be very, very...
View ArticleFive years after Fukushima, the clean-up has just begun
Five years ago, a massive tsunami hit the coast of Japan, killing nearly 16,000 people and leading to the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.Tens of thousands of people are still displaced from...
View ArticleWhere European countries stand on privacy versus security
In the wake of the San Bernardino shootings that left 14 people dead and 22 others wounded, the debate over encryption between tech companies and law enforcement has reached a fever pitch in the US....
View ArticleFukushima radiation still seeping into the Pacific
Five years after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, the radiation in the ocean off the coast of Japan is thousands of times lower than it was the month after the disaster, but water contaminated by the...
View ArticleObama can't talk about Apple vs. the FBI, but now we know where he stands
President Barack Obama, the first US president to speak at the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, spent the majority of his time trying to recruit the audience of tech entrepreneurs...
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Why lions can feast during a drought
A deep and prolonged drought has been painful for people across the whole of southern Africa. But, for the continent’s iconic wildlife, the picture is more complex.South Africa’s drought is its worst...
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US methane emissions are drastically underestimated, a new study shows
A recent study from Harvard University, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, documents a spike in US methane emissions to levels far higher than previous estimates.The...
View ArticleCan we teach robots right from wrong by reading them bedtime stories?
Robots, as Mark Riedl explains, pretty much all have sociopathic tendencies.“Are these going to be safe?” asks Riedl, a computer science professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta,...
View ArticleHow advances in virtual reality will change how we work and communicate
A couple years ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg paid a visit to a virtual reality lab in Silicon Valley. Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab was there to...
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Fungal diseases are surging, threatening species around the world
From the chytrid fungus in frogs to white-nose syndrome in bats, fungal diseases are wreaking havoc on many animal species around the world.“People looking at lists of new and emerging diseases have...
View ArticleA computer may have just become the best Go player out there
Can a human empowered by the ancient wisdom of China fend off the sharp-as-a-tack logic of computer programming? That's what's at stake in the five-game Go tournament being called Google’s DeepMind...
View ArticleWhy are researchers missing signs of autism in girls?
One in every 68 children born in the United States is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Boys are supposedly four times more likely to have the condition, but clinicians often miss or overlook...
View ArticleThe US has a lot to learn from Cuba about sustainable agriculture
In 2006, the World Wildlife Fund named Cuba the only country in the world to achieve "successful sustainable development," in large part, Greg Watson says, because of the island nation's approach to...
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The scientist who doesn't fly. Here's why.
I’m a climate scientist who doesn’t fly. I try to avoid burning fossil fuels, because it’s clear that doing so causes real harm to humans and to nonhumans, today and far into the future.I don’t like...
View ArticleThe wave that goes on for hundreds of miles
It’s a surfer’s paradise this time of year in an unlikely part of Brazil: the Amazon.Every year, around the spring equinox, a single huge wave surges from the Atlantic Ocean down the Amazon and its...
View ArticleThe opaque standards of Facebook
Recently Facebook caused an uproar when it suspended several accounts that posted a photo of Aboriginal women in traditional dress. The photo was part of International Women's Day, and was classified...
View ArticleThe FCC wants to make it easier for you to use your own cable box
Millions of Americans subscribe to cable and pay all the fees associated with those subscriptions: installation fees, service charges and monthly rental fees for the cable box, the gatekeeper to all...
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