Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 ...
He originally received pushback from his employer, Xerox. But his invention eventually became nearly ubiquitous in every office […]
Yearly Archives: 2020
This Strange Microbe May Mark One of Life’s Great Leaps ...
A organism living in ocean muck offers clues to the origins of the complex cells of all animals […]
NASA Pays Tribute, Says Goodbye to One of Agency’s Great ...
NASA will host a live program at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 22, to celebrate the far-reaching legacy […]
We’re Living in a Subscriptions World. Here’s How to Navigate ...
Subscription services like Netflix and Google Drive are convenient, but we can lose control of our content and […]
Bricks Alive! Scientists Create Living Concrete by AMOS ZEEBERG
‘A Frankenstein material’ teeming with — and ultimately made by — photosynthetic microbes. And it can reproduce. Published: […]
NASA, NOAA Analyses Reveal 2019 Second Warmest Year on Record
According to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Earth’s global surface temperatures […]
Where Surgeons Don’t Bother With Checklists by BY DONALD G. ...
In many poor countries, older surgeons resist being questioned, and operations are more often emergencies, which leaves less […]
Smile for Your Data File! by BY KASHMIR HILL
A new California privacy law gives consumers the right to see and delete their data. But getting access […]
Betty Pat Gatliff, Whose Forensic Art Solved Crimes, Dies at ...
She used clay to reconstruct the faces of the missing and murdered, in the hope of helping police […]
Tree Stumps Are Dead, Right? This One Was Alive by ...
When two ecologists hiking in New Zealand discovered this stump, they had to figure out how it could […]