Custom 4x4s, factory-made adventure vehicles, modified sleep systems: Overland Expo East displays the cutting edge and creative state of off-road vehicles. For a second year, the twice-annual Overland Expo East was held on the gorgeous Biltmore Estate grounds in Asheville,…
The best way to get cheap data while traveling internationally Image: vicky leta/mashable By Karissa Bell2017-10-17 11:15:00 UTC My favorite travel gadget isn’t my camera or noise-canceling headphones or even my iPhone. It’s a SIM card from Google. I’m talking,…
Groundbreaking gravitational wave discovery shows Einstein’s brilliance yet again “Oh, yes, look! I’m right again.” Image: Central Press/Getty Images By Miriam Kramer2017-10-16 18:53:55 UTC Even 100 years after the fact, Albert Einstein is still getting his due. On Monday, more…
Budgeting apps and spreadsheets may help people get their finances in order, but neuroscientist Moran Cerf says there is a simpler way to save more money: Live life on one financial timeline. Consider a typical American consumer. She gets paid twice a…
Image: PK Blanchard Berger/Pan-STARRS/DECam Today, physicists across the world celebrated as telescopes and observatories on Earth and in space captured a “kilonova.” Two neutron stars collided 130 million light years away, sending gravitational waves, x-rays, gamma-rays, radio waves, and light…
If you aced your SATs, you can thank at least a few of your genes. Scientist analyzed the DNA of 78,308 people. They discovered a link between intelligence and 52 specific genes. The better individuals did in broad intelligence tests,…
Twenty years ago, the spacecraft Cassini launched from Cape Canaveral on a journey to uncover the secrets of Saturn and its many moons. During its mission, Cassini recorded and sent nearly half a million pictures back to Earth, allowing scientists…
Image: Getty A major vulnerability has been discovered in the protocol governing basically all modern wi-fi routers. Here’s what we know so far. If you’ve set up a home wi-fi network, at some point you’ve encountered one or more screens…
From LIGO: “Artist’s illustration of two merging neutron stars. The narrow beams represent the gamma-ray burst while the rippling spacetime grid indicates the isotropic gravitational waves that characterize the merger. Swirling clouds of material ejected from the merging stars are…
A couple of weeks ago, the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) and Virgo teams announced the detection of another set of gravitational waves — the fourth since LIGO’s first detection in September of 2015. The observations of these ripples in…