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Detail from “T’ Fort nieuw Amsterdam op de Manhatans.” Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University This article is adapted from The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast . It’s the time of year when Americans remember a gritty story of conquest and…

A California State Prison, Solano, inmate installs a drought-tolerant garden in the prison yard, Oct. 19, 2015, Vacaville, California. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty One of the most frequently cited and dispiriting statistics about the American criminal justice system is that more than half of state…

Can alife—or even a moment—be represented by data? A single moment can contain aninfinite amount of information. And when we think about these moments, it’s notnecessarily information that characterizes our experience. Often the futilityof our attempts to create the fullest possible record of a life…

T here were a lot of tributes after the horror in Paris . It has to be said that Trafalgar Square is an odd choice of venue to show solidarity with France; presumably Waterloo was too busy. One of the most appropriate tributes was Adele dedicating Hometown Glory to Paris, just as the raids on…

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Ned Gardiner, a scientist who specializes in mapping ecosystems, is fiddling with an instrument floating over the side of our wooden pirogue when the boat emerges from an eddy into the main stream of the Congo River. The transition from the still water to the turbulent flow swings the bow downstream…

Nikolas Langes thought he knew every trick in the book for saving money on airline tickets. After all, he’s the founder of an online start-up called Tripdelta , which specializes in finding inexpensive fares. Turns out he didn’t. One day, he noticed a discrepancy between fares based on the currency…

THE ADE 651 IS A SMALL, HANDHELD WAND with a plastic grip and a swiveling antenna, designed by a British company named ATSC for the ostensible purpose of finding hidden explosives. I saw one of these devices firsthand last year while driving up to a security checkpoint at Jinnah International…

Yesterday, Donald Trump tweeted a series of inaccurate murder statistics from the “Crime Statistics Bureau — San Francisco.” The bureau doesn’t exist and the statistics were fabricated. It appears the numbers were manipulated to perpetuate racism against African Americans . For example, the graphic…

A planned merger between pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Allergan is prompting fresh calls for congressional action to prevent companies from shielding themselves from U.S. taxes by reincorporating overseas. But an agreement on legislation curbing so-called inversions will be no easy feat in the…

ANKARA/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday, saying the jet had violated its air space, in one of the most serious publicly acknowledged clashes between a NATO member country and Russia for half a century. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the…

Minneapolis police cordoned off a section of road in north Minneapolis late Monday night after five people were shot. Doualy Xaykaothao/MPR News Update at 8:40 p.m. ET Three people are in police custody after five people were injured last night as gunmen opened fire near the site of a Black Lives…

41 years ago, a team of archaeologists working in Ethiopia discovered the remnants of an ancient skeleton that became a vital missing piece in the puzzle of how humans came to be. Nicknamed "Lucy" , the skeleton was dated at 3.2 million years old - the oldest known example of a bipedal primate and a…

Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg We all know the story of how mobile phones took off in emerging markets. Suddenly small cocoa farmers in Africa who never had a landline or a computer were checking commodity prices on their smartphones.…

Thinkstock Worse off than their parents? Young people will not be as rich as earlier generation says the IFS. Young people are on track to be poorer than their parents at every stage of their lives, according to a new report. The study, by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), added that…

The test flight took place on Monday - Footage from Blue Origin The Amazon.com entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has claimed success on the second flight of his New Shepard spaceship. Intended eventually to carry people just above the atmosphere, the re-usable vehicle launched from west Texas on Monday with…

It’s easy to assume that human knowledge is stable – that everything we have learnt will endure for millennia. Yet oral history can evolve as it passes between generations, books can be destroyed, and digital storage is more fragile and transient than many assume. The hard drives and servers that…

Today, Silicon Valley is a dreamy officescape, a place where ideas and networks are currency. But in the 1960s and 70s, Silicon Valley proper manufactured hardware–and this industrial boom created one of the most polluted places in America. If you live in Silicon Valley, this is probably not news to…

US DOLLAR GOING UP MAKES COMMODITIES GOES DOWN – WHY? Commodities are priced in US dollars (even the Europeans buy a barrel of oil in US dollars). So, WHEN THE US DOLLAR GOES UP IN PRICE, THEN COMMODITIES GO DOWN IN PRICE (all other things being equal). Does this concept make sense to you? If not,…

Earlier this month, Virginia scientist Eric Betzig won a Nobel Prize for a new type of microscopy he developed . Today, he published a new paper that arguably blows that Nobel-winning research out of the water. His Nobel-winning discoveries were in the field of fluorescent microscopy, which allowed…

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Advertisement Not long after the first personal computers started entering people’s homes, Intel fell victim to a nasty kind of memory error. The company, which had commercialized the very first dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chip in 1971 with a 1,024-bit device, was continuing to increase data…

Ethiopian Railway Corporation "We decided to open the railway early because of the drought, the worst in decades," says Getachew Betru, chief executive of the Ethiopian Railways Corporation (ERC). It is a Saturday, but this thoughtful, intelligent man is busy working. Except for the guards at the…

Van Horn, Texas - November 24, 2015 - Blue Origin today announced that its New Shepard space vehicle successfully flew to space, reaching its planned test altitude of 329,839 feet (100.5 kilometers) before executing a historic landing back at the launch site in West Texas. To receive updates on Blue…

How we did it This project is an effort to identify every known donor who contributed to support Bill and Hillary Clinton over their four decades in public life. Read about our methodology. LITTLE ROCK — Over four decades of public life, Bill and Hillary Clinton have built an unrivaled global…

Kathleen Kennedy has heard a lot of movie pitches. For decades she worked with Steven Spielberg, producing E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial , the Indiana Jones series, the Jurassic Park series. You get the picture. So it probably wasn’t a surprise—it was cool, even—when, right after Kennedy took over as…

In the late 1970s, a researcher named Alexander Schauss discovered something interesting about the color pink. It was a very specific color of pink—a Pepto, bubblegum shade created by mixing a gallon of white latex paint with a pint of red semi-gloss outdoor paint. He was the director of life…

Yossi Atias is sitting in a conference room in One World Trade Center in New York City, but he’s staring directly into a room in his company’s headquarters, in Israel. On a shelf in the room, visible to Atias on his laptop’s screen, is a buffet of connected gadgets. There’s a smart alarm, a smart…

Then One/WIRED Given that ISIS and other terrorist organizations have proven adept at using social media to disseminate propaganda and incite fear, it seems obvious that platforms like Facebook and Twitter would aggressively and mercilessly delete such content and ban those who post it. It may seem…

Silicon Valley is full of giants. But one seems to be slowly disappearing. Yahoo was once an Internet titan, a ruler of the web. Now its future appears to be in question. Investors worry about what will happen to Yahoo once it spins off its stake in Chinese behemoth Alibaba—or if it can’t.…

In 1981, Walt Disney Productions faced a major issue: with the exception of The Rescuers , all of its recent films, including the live action, family friendly films, had been underperforming for years. Walt Disney’s son-in-law, Ron Miller, who had worked as a producer on multiple live action films…

After thousands of years trapped beneath the ice, their young faces are still covered in fur. You can even make out the whiskers on their cheeks and the tips of their sharp retractable claws. View image of Mummified cave lion (Credit: Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)) Named for…

According to a document prepared by the New York District Attorney’s Office , older versions of Android can easily be remotely reset by Google if compelled by a court order, allowing investigators to easily view the contents of a device. The document, which looks at the impact of full disk…

A Muslim woman wears a niqab as she walks past a McDonald's restaurant in Hamtramck, Mich. (Salwan Georges/For The Washington Post) HAMTRAMCK, MICH. — Karen Majewski was in such high demand in her vintage shop on a recent Saturday afternoon that a store employee threw up her hands when yet another…

The world is no longer at risk of running out of oil or gas, with existing technology capable of unlocking so much that global reserves would almost double by 2050 despite booming consumption, BP has said. When taking into account all accessible forms of energy, including nuclear, wind and solar,…

First Human Tests of Memory Boosting Brain Implant

Updated 11/8/2015 by Jeremy Kaplan: Edits for clarity. In Germany, a team of researchers are preparing to switch on the largest nuclear fusion plant in the world. Hosted at the Max Planck Institute, the stellarator, also known as Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X), is awaiting regulatory approval for a launch…