It’s not uncommon to see cameras mounted on store ceilings, propped up in public places or placed inside subways, buses and even on the dashboards of cars. Cameras record our world down to t... Read more
Climate researchers at the University of East Anglia have made the world’s temperature records available via Google Earth. The Climatic Research Unit Temperature Version 4 (CRUTEM4) la... Read more
Large fish traps in the Persian Gulf could be catching up to six times more fish than what’s being officially reported, according to the first investigation of fish catches from space conduc... Read more
Call it progress or metastasizing, what we have done as a race, a species or a civilization is dumbfounding. AESOP, the fabulist and slave who, like Scheherazade, may have won his freedom by... Read more
If Immigration Law Doesn’t Get In The Way Six years ago, we wrote about Andy Kessler’s fascinating book, The End of Medicine, which got me to totally rethink how nearly every soc... Read more
In the desert researchers demonstrate that an artificial neural network can pinpoint new fossil-rich sites, paving the way for more efficient digs On blisteringly hot desert sands, researche... Read more
Videos demonstrating how the time-lapse tool can be used to explore phenomena such as deforestation, urban growth and drying seas can be viewed at http://earthengine.google.org/#intro. Resea... Read more
A camera with a unique, spherical lens may bring single-shot gigapixel cameras closer to reality. Imagine snapping a panoramic picture from the top of the Empire State Building, then zooming... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The most effective use of energy on earth? In 1976, the biologist Robert E. Gill Jr. came to the southern coast of Alaska to survey the birds preparing for their migratio... Read more