Farewell, young spacecraft. The European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe has been surveying Comet 67P (or Churyumov-Gerasimenko) for the past 12 years, and on September 30th it will crash into the space rock and end its mission. Rosetta is nearing the…
Jack Ma, founder and chairman of the Chinese internet behemoth Alibaba, built his empire through charisma and perseverance. He founded Alibaba in 1995, and back in the mid-2000s, reporters used to call him "Crazy Jack" because of his animated speeches and…
Via Wikimedia This was inevitable, but it doesn’t make it any less heartbreaking. The first known fatality from an accident involving a self-driving vehicle is being investigated. On Thursday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a formal investigation of…
It me. If you haven’t opened Snapchat in a while, the app has an ever-changing pack of face-morphing filters, which allow you to swap faces with others and transform into everything from a dog to someone with an abnormally large…
imgur A 21-year-old recent college graduate, Redditor Tovero began her weightlifting journey four years ago when she took a weight training class in school. “I made decent progress in my shoulders and abs during that time” she explains, “…eventually I…
In 2008, Polaroid announced it would no longer produce instant film. Then, the Impossible Project took the opportunity to buy up what little was left of this division of the company and has spent the last eight years reformulating and…
False-color image showing ozone concentrations above Antarctica on Oct. 2, 2015. Image: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Nearly thirty years after an international treaty banned the use of chlorofluorocarbons, the Antarctic ozone hole is finally starting to heal. By mid to…
Image: AP Photo/Eric Risberg A new study suggests that compounds found in marijuana can stave off the brain damaging effects of Alzheimer’s disease. It’s a promising discovery, but claims that pot can prevent this age-related brain disorder are premature. Put…
Learning or practicing new skills is so important, it’s hard to ignore how vital it is to a successful career. To keep your educational momentum going throughout your life, give yourself five hours a week to learn something new or…
Sleep deprivation is so much a part of American culture that many people don’t even see it as a problem — and some people will actually brag about how little they can “get by” on. But the truth is that…