Alaska’s exceptional summer continues.  The most rapidly changing state in the U.S. is free of sea ice within 150 miles of its shores, according to high-resolution sea ice analysis from the National Weather Service. The big picture is clear: After…

I’ll tell you what it would look like. Short of having Elon Musk’s flamethrower as an afterburner, a Tesla racecar would be all kinds of awesome. Even Miguel Angel Bahri feels so, as is captured in his conceptual Tesla T1…

iStockphoto I can (vaguely) remember the days when I could drink two O.G. Four Lokos in an unhealthy amount of time and wake up the next morning (or, more often than not, the next afternoon) without a hangover and with…

The bottom-feeding forum 8chan, which grew popular by embracing fringe hateful internet cultures, is having trouble staying online. After Cloudflare dropped its protection of the site yesterday, 8chan adopted the services of Bitmitigate, but soon lost that too as the…

Everyone has been debating the recent cheese-grater edition of the Mac Pro, and I hate to admit that this was one Apple product that I didn’t fancy much. The form and functionality were mismatched. I’d much rather live in a…

About 14 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year. Some scientists estimate that there are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic debris in oceans worldwide. Most plastics never fully break down. They fragment into smaller pieces called microplastics, which have been found in…

A large-scale 3D map of the Milky Way shows its warped shape with a new level of detail and accuracy. Researchers measured the distances between our sun and 2,400 stars to map their three-dimensional coordinates across the Milky Way. Scientists…

I find myself increasingly being asked which countries are on my watch-list for design growth and discourse, and the one answer I keep going back to is the East. Regions like Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, and Korea are truly experiencing…