Sci-Fi

A data expert by the name of Hang Do Thi Duc recently exposed a problem with Venmo’s privacy settings, they’re public by default. For those who didn’t know that, Hang’s the angel on your shoulder […]

There’s a reasonable chance that Antarctica’s two most vulnerable ice shelves — the ends of massive glaciers that float over the ocean — will succumb to Earth’s warming climate and eventually collapse into the sea.  […]

Titan, six-ways. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Nantes/University of Arizona By Shannon Connellan2018-07-19 01:48:03 UTC Long live Cassini, which has delivered the clearest views of Saturn’s moon, Titan, to date. Six infrared images of Titan have been […]

From its desolate West Texas launchpad, Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin launched another reusable rocket into space, and then successfully landed both the rocket booster and the large-windowed crew capsule. Blue Origin used this […]

Early this year the Sustainable Oceans Alliance announced it would be starting its own accelerator with a focus on conservation. The nonprofit has just announced the Ocean Solutions Accelerator’s first wave of startups: a particularly […]

If we’re being honest, it’s damn near impossible to stay focused when the internet is at our fingertips. There’s always one more notification to read, one more deal to be had, one more like to […]

Back on July 2, people aboard  a Lava Ocean Tour boat watch as lava flows into the ocean. Image: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times By Shannon Connellan2018-07-17 02:30:12 UTC Hawaii’s youngest volcano, Kilauea, continues […]

The consequences of America’s swelling wildfire problem are traveling well beyond blackened, ashy forests. They’re now tainting the air in cities and towns over vast regions of the western U.S.  Since the mid-1980s, fine bits […]

While orbiting some 250 miles above Madagascar this week, International Space Station astronaut Ricky Arnold captured a grim picture of the island’s decimated land.  Madagascar’s forests have been nearly logged to death, with nearly 90 […]

Look behind you! A colossal iceberg looms behind Innarsuit in northwestern Greenland. Image: KARL PETERSEN/AFP/Getty Images By Shannon Connellan2018-07-16 01:39:24 UTC A colossal 11-million ton iceberg is towering over a tiny Greenland village, captured in […]