And they’re off: An electron and a positron race east toward Stanford’s main campus along a two-mile course — the longest of its kind (and straightest) in the world — that from high above looks like a giant chalk-colored dam, …
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Elon Musk: The Man Who’s Leading America’s Charge Back to Space
If you’re looking for a way to lose billions of dollars, blow up a lot of expensive hardware and possibly even kill people in the bargain, you couldn’t pick a better field than rocketry. There’s a reason only governments have …
Ray Bradbury Didn’t Love All Tech, but He Loved What Mattered Most
In the 1940s, when a young Ray Bradbury began a series of stories that would eventually become The Martian Chronicles, man had yet to even send a satellite into space. Since then, six U.S.-launched landers have touched down on …
How to Stop Sleeping with Your Smartphone
In her new book, Sleeping with Your Smartphone, Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow details her years-long research project with The Boston Consulting Group, an attempt to improve the work-life balance at the hard-driving firm with incremental but meaningful changes in attitude and behavior.
Like to Brag on Facebook or Twitter? That’s Because Self-Disclosure Is like Eating and Sex, Says Study
We love talking about ourselves, we really do — that’s what a group of Harvard neuroscientists found while testing the theory that we’re big on self-disclosure, anyway. In fact, say the scientists, we love self-disclosure so …
How to Create Your Own Healthy Eating Plan with Pinterest
Remember the days of cooking alongside Mom as you read the ingredients from a much-loved, oil-stained recipe book? Ah yes, the glory days (and stained recipes) will hold a nostalgic place in our hearts, but things have since …
Sharks with Laser Beams Attached to Their Heads: Dr. Evil’s Dream Comes True
Dr. Evil had one simple request to properly arm his lair – he wanted “sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads.” While his right-hand man Number Two couldn’t deliver on this rather simple setup (instead, …
Facebook Now Lets Organ Donors Tell Their Friends
Not content with merely changing the world, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks he can save a few lives as well.
Starting today, Facebook users in the United States and United Kingdom can post organ donor status to their …
Has Bezos Really Found the Apollo 11 Engines?
A discovery on the floor of the Atlantic may — or may not — be a treasured artifact.
White House to Spend $200 Million on ‘Big Data’
Today, the White House is announcing that it’s spending $200 million on its “Big Data” initiative, which aims to “advance state-of-the-art core technologies needed to collect, store, preserve, manage, analyze, and share huge …
Can an Energy Drink Really Make You a Better Gamer?
Warning: Part of this story may resemble an advertorial, because when I first bumped into it passing by AllThingsD, that’s what it read like to me. The idea’s that there’s a new energy drink called GungHo (hey, at least it’s not …
Robonaut: Celebrating NASA’s First Humanoid Robot in Space
At the press site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, one figure stood out among the crowd gathered to watch the final launch of the space shuttle Discovery last year.
via Robonaut: Celebrating NASA’s First Humanoid Robot in Space – TIME.