On New Year's Day in 1985, Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 was carrying 29 passengers and a hell of a lot of contraband when it crashed into the side of a 21,112-foot mountain in Bolivia. For decades conspiracy theories abounded as the wreckage remained inaccessible, the bodies unre … | Continue reading

We asked you to grade America’s cities on two critical, unrelated metrics: Mexican food and public transportation. Here’s what we learned. | Continue reading

On May 30, 2018, the National Geographic Museum will provide new perspectives on one of the world’s most famous shipwrecks in the exhibition “Titanic: The Untold Story.” The National Geographic Society uses its storytelling expertise to shed light on a significant part of the shi … | Continue reading

Climate change threatens coral reefs around the globe. The high temperatures associated with this phenomenon can lead to "bleaching," the breakdown of the symbiosis between corals and the algae that live within their cells. Since corals are nourished by these photosynthetically … | Continue reading

A weekly newsletter of the best articles on startups, technology, programming, and more. All links are curated by hand from Hacker News. | Continue reading

You don’t need to build a product to learn whether customers will use it—you just need to ask the right questions from Day One. | Continue reading

Romina Gowin-Becker (36) wird ab Januar 2019 die Abteilung für das Kongress- und Tagungsgeschäft bei der Messe Frankfurt leiten und die Nachfolge von Claudia Delius-Fisher antreten, die nach 31 Jahrenbei der Messe Frankfurt  in den wohlverdienten Ruhestand geht. Die Diplom-Betri … | Continue reading

Population data for European mountain birds had been combined in a recent study, with worrying results: The abundance of mountain-specialist birds has declined by as much as 10 percent since 2000. | Continue reading

A team of researchers with members affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and China has found two stalagmites that offer a way to improve the accuracy of the carbon-14 dating technique. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes the stalagmites … | Continue reading

For about $200, you can build a surprisingly capable six-whegged robot with googly eyes | Continue reading

Here is the list of the second set of winners, in the order the grants were made, noting that the descriptions are mine not theirs: Kelly Smith has a for-profit project to further extend a parent-run charter school system in Arizona, using Uber-like coordinating apps and “minimal … | Continue reading

Immigration detention facilities that are privately operated or located in remote areas of the country garnered more grievances and held detainees significantly longer than in publicly run facilities, according to a study by USC Gould School of Law Professor Emily Ryo. | Continue reading

Algorithmic fairness is increasingly important because as more decisions of greater importance are made by computer programs, the potential for harm grows. Today, algorithms are already widely used to determine credit scores, which can mean the difference between owning a home an … | Continue reading

There are reasons good and bad to want anonymity | Continue reading

Gene trees, much like family trees, trace the lineage of a particular gene from its deep ancestral roots to its still-growing branches. By comparing gene trees to species trees, which map the evolutionary history of species, scientists can learn which species have which genes, wh … | Continue reading

Many scientists around the world are studying marine biodiversity—the variety of life forms in the ocean. But there is no common standard for how to conduct this research or to compile the data from different studies in different areas. MBARI's Francisco Chavez, a biological ocea … | Continue reading

Over the last few decades, the American West has seen major increases in wildfire activity and big decreases in groundwater supply. Warmer temperatures are paving the way for the invasion of destructive bark beetles, while lower precipitation is drying out lakes and rivers. | Continue reading

The present invention provides a method to produce black iron oxide nanoparticle slurry having a magnetite structure and homogenously disperse. It can be used as formed or mixed with another medium. | Continue reading