Who’s watching when you control your house from your phone?Guido Mieth/The Image Bank/Getty By Matt Reynolds How much of your privacy would you trade for a smarter home? Internet service providers (ISPs) can peek at the internet-connected devices people use in their own homes – baby monitors, TV set-top boxes, […]
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Burning Man takes place every August in the middle of the Black Rock Desert in northwest Nevada. It’s not a pleasant place, with triple-digit temperatures, 30-mile-an-hour winds and blinding sand storms. Yet that doesn’t stop some 70,000 burners pouring in for a good time. And erecting an entire city in […]
Earlier this year, Collin Smith came into possession of an “intelligent” first aid kit. When he did, the first thing he did was try to outsmart it. The kit in question was the Comprehensive Rescue System, a sturdy, gray, 17-pound case of supplies custom-built by emergency management startup Mobilize Rescue […]
Neil Johnson used to study electrons as a buttoned-up professor of physics at the University of Oxford. Then, a decade ago, he decamped to the University of Miami—a young institution that he sees as unconstrained by rigid traditions or barriers between disciplines—and branched out. In recent years, the 55-year-old physicist […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Ursa Space Systems, a geospatial data and analytics company, is using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery to monitor flooding along the Texas Gulf Coast caused by Hurricane Harvey. On Aug. 27, Ursa released images of Corpus Christi, Texas, showing the impact of the hurricane. Through its partnership […]
View photos Kurt Kotschral, co-founder of Austria’s Wolf Science Center, with one of its furry residents (AFP Photo/JOE KLAMAR) More Ernstbrunn (Austria) (AFP) – “When they lick your face, keep your mouth closed. They have long tongues,” Kurt Kotrschal tells the group before they enter the wolf enclosure, soliciting a […]
We got talking, thanks to epigeneticsKenneth Hope/Millennium Images By Andy Coghlan How and when did we first become able to speak? A new analysis of our DNA reveals key evolutionary changes that reshaped our faces and larynxes, and which may have set the stage for complex speech. The alterations were […]
The 45th president is notorious for ignoring scientific adviceMark Wilson/Getty Images IN THE run-up to this week’s solar eclipse, there was one message so ubiquitous that it was hard to ignore: don’t look at the sun without eye protection. But as the moon moved across the face of our star, […]