Squid Hell →  November 18, 2009 2

Analog music is dying, and Dicky Spears of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, is reviving it with a monster he calls Squid Hell.

Crude →  November 16, 2009 0

Crude tells the story of Amazon villagers struggling to sue Chevron for dumping billions of gallons of oil near their villages. It's a story that's gone unheard in America for too long. Too bad no one's going to see the movie.

Five Places Already Hit by Global Warming →  November 13, 2009 1

Global warming isn't just 2050's problem. From the rainforest to the South Pacific, big bad climate change is already wrecking crops, flooding towns, killing frogs and generally making a mess of things.

Danger Zone →  November 12, 2009 0

Medical helicopter crashes caused 28 deaths in 2008, leading emergency transport providers like the Dartmouth Hitchcock Advanced Response Team (DHART) to reexamine their safety protocols.

Ebola: The Rise, Fall and Return of a Deadly Disease →  November 11, 2009 1

Ebola may have faded from the spotlight it enjoyed in the mid-1990s, but it’s still around, and as deadly and mysterious as ever. It began in Kikyo, a remote village in western Uganda’s Bundibugyo district, during the twilight days of August. People grew ill with headache, fever, bloody diarrhea, and vomiting. Then they died. In [...]

Seeing Machine →  November 10, 2009 1

An invention helps people with impaired vision see and read.

Virtual for Real – Augmented Reality →  November 10, 2009 1

Taking photos by simply gesturing your fingers to form a rectangle is no longer sci-fi. Augmented reality will change the ways we experience and interact with the physical world by blending real and virtual seamlessly.

Build Your Own Biology Lab →  November 10, 2009 0

You can buy (almost) anything on the internet. But not a cadaver.

The Genetics of Fancy →  November 9, 2009 0

The underground hobby of pigeon fancying showcases the intricacies of artificial selection, and the flamboyant attributes a breeder can tease out of a bird's genetic makeup.

The Elements of Disaster →  November 8, 2009 3

Earth, Air, Fire, Water: the four classic elements. But those wise ancients forgot the fifth element, the one that turns a laughable error into a “natural” disaster: human folly.