Photo: Mary Gardella Photography Futurist Amy Webb has led the Future Today Institute since today…was the future. That sounds less profound than we hoped, but Webb’s work is profound. Since Webb founded it in 2006, Future Today has analyzed trends…
Mike Theiler / Reuters With a lion’s head full of gnashing teeth sitting atop the body of a goat and a snake for a tail, the Chimera of Greek mythology is a terrifying sight — and that’s before it starts…
Photo: Lidye Petit (Unsplash) My favorite thing about writing about food on the internet is all the shouting. Certain foods court it—pizza, eggs, and ribs all have very rabid fans (and, in the case of eggs, haters) with lots of…
Image: DMangus/Fickr There are some fun astronomical events ahead of us on the calendar, and with a little preparation you can catch them all from home. On Friday, July 27, there is going to be a blood moon, or a…
Kaffeeform, a Berlin-based startup, is collecting leftover coffee from local coffee shops to recycle and use as secondary raw material to produce coffee cups. Read more… More about Mashable Video, Coffee, Coffee Shop, Berlin, and Recycling from Mashable! via…
Z. Zheng et al./Cell 2018 Scientists have created a high-resolution image of a fruit fly brain that will let researchers trace the connections of neurons throughout the brain. A team at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus led…
No need to panic, folks! Just Russian hackers claiming “hundreds of victims” to infiltrate U.S. electric utilities, giving them the ability to cause blackouts. The state-sponsored hackers used fairly common tactics to compromise the vendors that supplied those utilities, according…
iStockphoto Despite the best efforts of people who think Reefer Madness is a documentary, marijuana is becoming increasingly normalized in the United States and beyond. At this point, legalization in America seems inevitable as more and more people realize weed doesn’t cause…
The latest robots out of MIT are small enough to float “indefinitely” in the air. Researchers accomplished the feat by attaching 2D electronics to colloids — tiny particles measuring around one-billionth to one-millionth of a meter. All told, the devices…
ROBERT GENDLER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbor, and it apparently has been hiding a dark past. Scientists from the University of Michigan discovered that this sinister figure cannibalized our sibling approximately two…