The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store

American food supplies are increasingly channeled through a handful of big companies: Amazon, Walmart, FreshDirect, Blue Apron. What do we lose when local supermarkets go under?

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Apollo 11 astronauts took a lot of drugs for trip around dark side of the moon

When Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins blasted off on their Apollo 11 moon-landing mission on July 16, 1969, they were set for quite a trip. They were carrying drugs — a lot of drugs — as they planned to go around the dark side of the moon and land on the Sea of Tranquility. It was the groovy 1960s, after all. But there was nothing nefarious about their stash on board the Saturn V rocket.

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How Technology Is Transforming The Food Industry

When it comes to food, tech isn’t always the first thing that comes to mind. However, technology over the years has changed how we produce and find our food through applications, robotics, data and processing techniques. According to a recent report from ING, technology helps food manufacturers produce more efficiently for a growing world population. There are 7.5 billion people in the world right now and that means a higher demand for food each year. By using tech to improve processing and packaging, it can improve the shelf life and safety of food.

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The smart diaper is coming. Who actually wants it?

Huggies launched diapers that monitor your baby’s poop and pee in Korea. Next up: the US?

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The elements, in haiku

An interactive review of the periodic table -- composed of 119 haiku

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Dark Matter Gets a Reprieve in New Analysis

A strange glow coming from the Milky Way’s center was thought to be due to ordinary pulsars. But a new look at a years-old study shows that dark matter might still be responsible.

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AR will mean dystopia if we don’t act today

The martial arts actor Jet Li turned down a role in the Matrix and has been invisible on our screens because he does not want his fighting moves 3D-captured and owned by someone else. Soon everyone will be wearing 3D-capable cameras to support augmented reality (often referred to as mixed reality) applications. Everyone will have to deal with the sorts of digital-capture issues across every part of our life that Jet Li avoided in key roles and musicians have struggled to deal with since Napster. AR means anyone can rip, mix and burn reality itself.

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Alzheimer's disease is a 'double-prion disorder,' study shows

Two proteins central to the pathology of Alzheimer's disease act as prions—misshapen proteins that spread through tissue like an infection by forcing normal proteins to adopt the same misfolded shape—according to new UC San Francisco research.

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'Water Worlds' Are Common In Milky Way, Says Research. So Why Not In The Solar System?

New research into data on exoplanets suggests that 'super-Earths' and water-rich 'sub-Neptunes' between two and four times bigger than Earth are likely to be water worlds containing at least 25% water-dominated ices or fluids, and not the gas dwarfs with a rocky core than many astronomers thought.

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iPhone users are twice as likely to text and drive as Android users

In observation of Distracted Driving Month this April, The Zebra, an insurance comparison site, surveyed 2,107 Americans to uncover what activities are distracting them on the road. The survey revealed that 78% of Americans admit to engaging in activities other than concentrating on the road, even though the majority of them (66%) feel guilty while doing so. And iPhone users are twice as likely to text and drive as Android users.

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NASA Says Two of Its Rockets Failed Because of Metals Fraud

According to the agency, a contractor lied about the quality of its metals for years, causing two failed rocket launches.

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Not dead but gone: how a concussion changed my girlfriend's personality forever

We have no place in our culture for this kind of grief. Gabrielle was still there – it just wasn’t the her I had loved

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NASA head: Expect a major asteroid strike in your lifetime

Visions of space rocks slamming into Earth aren't just for dinosaurs and Hollywood movies.

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Life May Have Evolved Before Earth Finished Forming

The first organisms may have evolved before the rocky planets formed. By Mike Wall.

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Are the dead taking over Facebook? A Big Data approach to the future of death online

We project the future accumulation of profiles belonging to deceased Facebook users. Our analysis suggests that a minimum of 1.4 billion users will pass away before 2100 if Facebook ceases to attract new users as of 2018. If the network continues expanding at current rates, however, this number will exceed 4.9 billion.

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Prepare for Earth to be hit by a meteor in your lifetime, Nasa chief says

Dangerous asteroids flying past Earth are not rare, and more meteor strikes happen than the public is aware of, the head of Nasa has said. At the International Academy of Astronautics’ Planetary Defence Conference on Monday, Nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said: “I wish I could tell you these events are exceptionally unique … but they’re not.” He said more work is now underway to protect our planet from the impact of meteor strikes.

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Never-Before-Seen Phenomenon: Black Hole Ejects Plasma And Drags Spacetime

Share Scientists have spotted a mind-blowing phenomenon that has never been seen so far. There’s a black hole that’s about 8,000 light years away from Earth which has caught the eye of astronomers due to its really strange nature. V404 Cygni black hole  The Daily Mail reports that the black hole is called V404 Cygni …

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The moon may be made from a magma ocean that once covered Earth

There are a number of theories about where the moon came from. Our best guess is that it was formed when the Earth was hit by a large object known as Theia. The impact threw up huge amounts of debris into orbit, which eventually coalesced to form the moon.

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