Former Uber CEO and cofounder Travis Kalanick appeared at the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, May 10 for the ride hailing company’s IPO. Kalanick’s arrival was met with "enormous applause," according to the New York Time’s Mike Isaac. Beside…

How I shot a Milky Way moonrise from an airplane seat May 10, 2019 by Jan Jasinski Leave a Comment A couple of weeks ago I was blessed with a sight that truly left me in a state of awe.…

A team of students at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London developed a method that turns lobster shells into biodegradable "plastic." The Shellworks group uses a series of machines to transform the chitin found in crustacean shells…

Whether you’re looking for miles of pavement, gravel, or singletrack, this European destination has quietly become a hotbed for serious cycling culture. Welcome to Girona, Spain! Ask a pro cyclist where they’ll train and live in the offseason, and chances…

Qualcomm today announced that it has partnered with Google to create a reference design and development kit for building Assistant-enabled Bluetooth headphones. Traditionally, building these headphones wasn’t exactly straightforward and involved building a lot of the hardware and software stack,…

Pharmaceutical giant Gilead has agreed to release its exclusive patent to manufacture and sell the HIV-prevention drug Truvada. This means we could see a generic version of the pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP) on the market earlier than expected. The news…

Extinction is coming. Though, in large part, it already has. On Monday, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) published an exhaustive report on the planet’s accelerating extinction rate. The report — compiled over three…

The planet in the middle of a mass extinction — the sixth time in Earth’s history that a wide swath of species are experiencing a major collapse in their populations. Human activities are to blame: Pollution, farming, and deforestation are…