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Oct 21, 2015
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Celebrate Back To The Future Day With These Astounding Behind-The-Scenes Photos

Ever since Back to the Future II hit theaters in 1989, we’ve all been able to nurse fantastical ideas of what Earth might look like on October 21, 2015. When Marty McFly rode the DeLorean to that very date, he found a world of hoverboards, flying cars, and self-tying shoes....

Oct 21, 2015
Science News

Celebrate Back To The Future Day With These Astounding Behind-The-Scenes Photos

Ever since Back to the Future II hit theaters in 1989, we’ve all been able to nurse fantastical ideas of what Earth might look like on October 21, 2015. When Marty McFly rode the DeLorean to that very date, he found a world of hoverboards, flying cars, and self-tying shoes....

By John Kuroski
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Oct 2, 2015
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Mushroom-Powered Batteries And Plastic-Eating Worms May Help Solve Our Waste Problem

Discarded plastics and batteries pose substantial problems to the environment, but this week researchers have revealed two potential — if not surprising — tools we can use to reduce both their incidence and effects: mealworms and mushrooms. Really, hear us out. This week, researchers at University of California, Riverside, Stanford...

Oct 2, 2015
Science News

Mushroom-Powered Batteries And Plastic-Eating Worms May Help Solve Our Waste Problem

Discarded plastics and batteries pose substantial problems to the environment, but this week researchers have revealed two potential — if not surprising — tools we can use to reduce both their incidence and effects: mealworms and mushrooms. Really, hear us out. This week, researchers at University of California, Riverside, Stanford...

By Savannah Cox
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Sep 16, 2015
Sea Slug Sheep

Scientists Recently Named A Sea Slug Species After Khaleesi. Here’s Why.

No, you’re not seeing double. This neon green-and-orange sea slug really does have two heads. Divers working on a documentary about Borneo caught this two-faced nudibranch in action, according to recent reports. While no one understands the exact cause of its deformity, the truth is that even with two heads,...

Sep 16, 2015

Scientists Recently Named A Sea Slug Species After Khaleesi. Here’s Why.

No, you’re not seeing double. This neon green-and-orange sea slug really does have two heads. Divers working on a documentary about Borneo caught this two-faced nudibranch in action, according to recent reports. While no one understands the exact cause of its deformity, the truth is that even with two heads,...

By All That's Interesting
Sea Slug Sheep
Sep 14, 2015
Google Self Driving Car

Your World This Week, Volume XIII

Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Takes A Big Step Forward Google may have just taken its most important step yet in making the self-driving car a reality. And it didn’t happen in a lab, testing track or anywhere of the sort. It’s happening in a board room. Later this month, auto...

Sep 14, 2015
Science News

Your World This Week, Volume XIII

Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Takes A Big Step Forward Google may have just taken its most important step yet in making the self-driving car a reality. And it didn’t happen in a lab, testing track or anywhere of the sort. It’s happening in a board room. Later this month, auto...

By John Kuroski
Google Self Driving Car
Sep 3, 2015
Woolly Mammoth De-Extinction

De-Extinction: The Who, How, When, And Why Of Bringing Extinct Species Back To Life

In 1598, the Dutch landed on the island of Mauritius, just off the coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Here, they were met by a massive population of flightless, naive, meaty birds. Salivating, the sailors happily began killing them, kindly bestowing the name “dodo” upon the shell-shocked animals. Over...

Sep 3, 2015

De-Extinction: The Who, How, When, And Why Of Bringing Extinct Species Back To Life

In 1598, the Dutch landed on the island of Mauritius, just off the coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Here, they were met by a massive population of flightless, naive, meaty birds. Salivating, the sailors happily began killing them, kindly bestowing the name “dodo” upon the shell-shocked animals. Over...

By Callie Stewart
Woolly Mammoth De-Extinction
Aug 20, 2015
Human Echolocation Shoes Cane

Human Echolocation: How The Blind Can “See,” And How We’re Holding Them Back

Think back to when you were very young and someone first explained blindness to you. If you were me, it was a menopausal primary school teacher telling you to stand up and close your eyes. “That is what it is to be blind,” she said, fanning herself. “Your eyes don’t...

Aug 20, 2015

Human Echolocation: How The Blind Can “See,” And How We’re Holding Them Back

Think back to when you were very young and someone first explained blindness to you. If you were me, it was a menopausal primary school teacher telling you to stand up and close your eyes. “That is what it is to be blind,” she said, fanning herself. “Your eyes don’t...

By Callie Stewart
Human Echolocation Shoes Cane