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ift.tt/3kWxbm1 Mars Express image of the ice cap of Mars’s south pole, a composite of infrared, blue, and green light. (Read more about the image here.)ESA / DLR / FU Berlin / Bill Dunford Remember the possible saline lake found…

ift.tt/2ZV7CcU A new color-changing ink could aid in health and environment monitoring—for example, allowing clothing that switches hues when exposed to sweat or a tapestry that shifts colors if a dangerous gas enters the room. The formulation could be printed…

ift.tt/33RSzBN If you are reading this in the United States, you are experiencing a disaster—maybe more than one. Hurricane Sally hammered Alabama and the Florida panhandle last week, submerging homes and leaving tens of thousands without power. The West Coast…

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ift.tt/3hJfZOR The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database documents more than 36,000 voyages in which enslaved persons were shipped across the Atlantic Ocean. Select any entry in the register and you’ll find a checklist of shockingly precise information: the size of the…

ift.tt/2ZOU5Ui Artist Shaun Mckenzie creates absolutely amazing, pencil portraits that are incredibly photorealistic and lifelike. Mckenzie demonstrated his work with a portrait of a man wearing glasses in a timelapse that showed how incredibly detailed his drawings are. I created…

ift.tt/35IL2rP Up for a little dreaming today? How about this proposal: quit your job, sell your house / give up your rental and swap it all for a beautiful 19th century house in the Swedish countryside. Love the water? Even…

ift.tt/3mp5ROV Her campaign message was based more on continuing the protest movement from within government than traditional electoral promises. “We are not telling our voters, ‘Hey, vote for us and we will achieve the demands that you want,’ or ‘Hey,…

ift.tt/3mvZNUB A little over two years ago, a shipping container-sized cylinder bearing Microsoft’s name and logo was lowered onto the ocean floor off the northern coast of Scotland. Inside were 864 servers, and their submersion was part of the second…

ift.tt/32Gx1Ji In the 1940s, trailblazing physicists stumbled upon the next layer of reality. Particles were out, and fields — expansive, undulating entities that fill space like an ocean — were in. One ripple in a field would be an electron,…

ift.tt/3mv8EpL “Darkroom – Photo Editor” is available free of charge for iOS – for the iPhone and the iPad. With 12 filters, the free version offers relatively few editing options for users. A one-time fee of € 10.99 is charged…

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ift.tt/3mx6BkO Edward White’s monthly column, “Off Menu,” serves up lesser-told stories of chefs cooking in interesting times. Still from Fanny Cradock’s BBC Christmas Special On the evening of November 11, 1976, the BBC broadcast the third episode of The Big…

ift.tt/2FFmBAC Ranging from the old-fashioned to the modern, from the elegantly unreadable to the crystal clear, these alphabets are organized and labeled by century, country, and often library of origin, thereby providing the reader with a sense of how many…

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The Grugq has written an excellent essay on how the Russian cybercriminal gang FIN7 operates. An excerpt: The secret of FIN7’s success is their operational art of cyber crime. They managed their resources and operations effectively, allowing them to successfully…

ift.tt/3c54cZZ Facebook / Aurich Lawson After being fired by Facebook this month, a data scientist published a 6,600-word memo to the company’s internal communication systems breaking down 2.5 years of her experiences on the “fake engagement team.” The resulting stories,…

ift.tt/3hCA8pW Donald Trump in Henderson, Nevada on Sunday. Note the presence of a roof. Ethan Miller/Getty Images Three current news items concern a Republican operative named Michael Caputo who Donald Trump installed in April as his personal enforcer at the…

ift.tt/3hpNGVu Cybersecurity is a serious concern for both businesses and individuals. A growing number of global cyber threats, data breaches, and cybercrimes in recent years have made it to the news headlines. It is estimated that cybercrimes will cost $6…

ift.tt/3ki8XSK There is something funky going on in the clouds of Venus. Telescopes have detected unusually high concentrations of the molecule phosphine—a stinky, flammable chemical typically associated with feces, farts and rotting microbial activity—in an atmospheric layer far above the…

ift.tt/3mey2jv Shortly after midnight on June 17, 1972, an unusually attentive security guard named Frank Wills discovered an unlocked door in the garage of the Watergate office complex. A piece of tape had been placed over the latch. Wills removed…