By Lance Whitney Can Google’s high-orbit, high-tech balloons provide Internet access to remote areas? The company will conduct its latest Project Loon test above Australia.
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Building a house is stressful. Building a skyscraper is a nuclear bomb of stress, problems, and carefully-coordinated chaos—chaos that is closely tied to the economy, and that is easily derailed by war, politics, and financial downturns.
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By Stephen Shankland Hardware, software, and funding limits mean it’s not easy to make the fastest computers even faster. That’s too bad for the industries that rely on them.
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When you’re eating at a restaurant, you’re putting a tremendous amount of faith in the kitchen and wait staff that your food will be kept as contaminant-free as possible. But if you’re really worried about an establishment’s hygiene, make sure you’re always carrying …
This dramatic simulation shows how a new moon could be born if something large—about the size of Mars, in fact—slammed into our planet. Spoiler: it causes quite a mess.
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By Michelle Starr The sequel to Theodore Gray’s acclaimed chemistry iPad app The Elements leads you into the wonderful world of molecules.
By Darren Orf
Welcome to the nearing death of another weekend and, of course, another Reading List, gathering together some of this week’s best words, phrases, and sentences spun into incredible stories. This week we have online black markets, the future of cybernetic prosthetics, the endangered art of the London cabby, and the brave and/or foolhardy mission of Mars One. Dig in, everyone.
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