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Alex Petrowsky Inside LAX's New Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Unit
If the airport’s experimental team succeeds, every critical infrastructure site in the world might soon have its own in-house intel operation.
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eLISA Science / The Atlantic The Satellites That Could Trace the Ripples of the Cosmos
The eLISA space mission aims to detect gravitational waves with an enormous laser triangle and floating gold cubes.
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NASA / The Atlantic The Future of Archaeology Is 'Spacejunk'
Museum tours may one day rocket beyond Earth to explore abandoned satellites and derelict spacecraft.
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CORONA Atlas Project / The Atlantic Archaeologists Are Spotting Ancient Ruins in Cold War Spy Photos
The declassified images are a treasure trove for scientists who study the empires of antiquity.
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NASA / The Atlantic The Growing Risk of a War in Space
The prospect of weaponized satellites launching a Pearl Harbor style attack in orbit is more probable than many people realize.
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Andy Clark / Reuters / The Atlantic The Existentialism of GPS
Satellite-based art projects have a way of revealing the inherent slipperiness of the physical world.
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Michaela Rehle / Reuters / The Atlantic How a GPS Glitch Can Change the Taste of Your Salad
Much of the automated world depends on satellites. When one has a problem, it can cause startling butterfly effects.
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Gene Blevins / Reuters Tracking Earth's Secret Spy Satellites
With the right gear and know-how, anyone can keep tabs on the clandestine ”moons” that surround our planet.
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NASA / The Atlantic Subverting Our New Space Overlords
Governments and hedge funds are pulling economic data from daily satellite images of ports, farms, and even mall parking lots—here’s how they might be fooled.
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Andres Kudacki / AP / The Atlantic The Age of Fake Shooting Stars Is Upon Us
A satellite-delivered meteor shower is scheduled to open the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo—an artificial star over Bethlehem might be next.
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Kineticorp The Novelist Who Reconstructs Car Crashes
The tools of the trade: Animations, toy trucks, and a stuffed feral pig on wheels
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Inside a Radioactive 'Health' Mine
There are only half a dozen radon health mines in the United States, and all six of them are located within twenty minutes' drive of each other in western Montana.
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Air America: The Dramatic Aerial Photography of Michael Light
"If you keep going up and up, the world becomes quite circular and alien. You see the world quite literally as a planet."
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Ron Blakey What Did the Continents Look Like Millions of Years Ago?
An artist-geologist renders the history of the Earth with maps.
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Between Broadcast and Community: The Design of Virtual Spaces
“I think blogging probably became popular simply because it became possible to scroll vertically in web pages.”
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How the Polar Bear Lost Its Power, and Other Animal Tales
"I don't know whether you saw the YouTube video that Obama put out to accompany his big climate speech in June, but I was surprised: there wasn't a single polar bear image in it."
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Let There Be Night
"People think they know darkness, and that they experience darkness everyday, but they don't, really."
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Surveilling the Birds
A tour of the longest continuously running bird banding station in the U.S.
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It's Artificial Afghanistan: A Simulated Battlefield in the Mojave Desert
An hour northeast of Barstow, California, there's an army base the size of Rhode Island, complete with a fake Afghan town known as Ertebat Shar.
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The Philosophy of SimCity: An Interview With the Game's Lead Designer
Stone Librande talks about parking lots, governing styles, and how Google Earth shaped the Sim's new world.
