Chris Baraniuk
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Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo The Ice Age Has Nothing on ‘Snowball Earth’
Five hundred million years before the dawn of dinosaurs, strange animals ruled a frozen planet.
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Francois Lepage / Hans Lucas / Redux Scientists Can No Longer Ignore Ancient Flooding Tales
Indigenous stories from the end of the last Ice Age could be more than myth.
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Getty A UV Lamp That’s Bad for COVID but Not for You
Researchers are testing lights that have the early potential to transform the pandemic.
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Getty; The Atlantic Shipping Containers Are Pumped Full of Toxic Gas
Chemicals used to fumigate cargo have sent dockworkers to the hospital.
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Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post/Getty A Radioactive Gas Is Lurking Beneath the Permafrost
Cancer-causing radon has been trapped beneath the frozen Arctic soil for millennia. Climate change is setting it free.
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Manuella Dultra The Sand Octopus Was Hiding in Plain Sight
And yet it took a 19th-century naturalist, a 21st-century grad student, and some Brazilian fishers to crack the mystery.
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Reuters/The Noun Project/Alexis Madrigal Haulin' Data: How Trucking Became the Frontier of Work Surveillance
Every rig driver in America will soon be tracked by an electronic recorder. Proponents claim it will make the roads safer, but some wonder what else the data could be used for.
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The Quest for Seamless, High-Quality Virtual Reality
One of the greatest challenges for creating a feeling of "presence" has long been physical obstacles such as your sofa. Now, a handful of companies are building devices designed to let you move freely in place.
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Whatever Happened to the Phone Phreaks?
Phone phreaks demonstrated that the mundane telephone could become a gateway to virtual adventures which spanned the globe, anticipating the culture of hacking today.
