A view of the ice canyon that now carries meltwater from the Kaskawulsh glacier, seen here on the right, away from the Slims river and toward the Kaskawulsh river.Photograph: Dan Shugar/University of Washington Tacoma An immense river that flowed from one of Canada’s largest glaciers vanished over…

While the brain sleeps, it clears out harmful toxins, a process that may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, researchers say. During sleep, the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain increases dramatically, washing away harmful waste proteins that build up between brain cells during waking hours, a…

Horseshoe crab blood is an irreplaceable medical marvel—and so biomedical companies are bleeding 500,000 every year. Can this creature that's been around since the dinosaurs be saved? Meghan Owings plucks a horseshoe crab out of a tank and bends its helmet-shaped shell in half to reveal a soft white…

The pioneering brewer People Like Us in Skippinge, Denmark, has prompted other companies in the country to take on autistic staff.Photograph: People Like Us With its collection of small vessels and hoses, plain tiled floor and bags of malt, the workplace of People Like Us in Skippinge, Denmark, is a…

Nasa may have found a 'potential alien habitat' on one of Saturn's moons, according to rumours. The US space agency will hold a press briefing tomorrow to reveal a discovery that will 'help inform future ocean world exploration'. But a former Nasa employee has suggested that the the space agency…

Talk of ‘us’ and ‘them’ has long dominated Iran-related politics in the West. At the same time, Christianity has frequently been used to define the identity and values of the US and Europe, as well as to contrast those values with those of a Middle Eastern ‘other’. Yet, a brief glance at an ancient…

Imagine two employees at a large bank: an analyst who handles sensitive financial information and a courier who makes deliveries outside the company. As they go about their day, they look like they’re doing what they’re supposed to do. The analyst is analyzing; the delivery person is delivering. But…

Photo: Honda With smartphones and built-in GPS, many drivers now take in-car navigation for granted. But Honda developed a navigation system in 1981—14 years before GPS was fully operational. The company’s Electro Gyrocator [above] was the world’s first map-based automotive navigation system. The…

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Hinshaw is not a typical 75-year-old. He divides his time between his family – he has 32 grandchildren and great-grandchildren – and helping U.S. companies avert crippling computer meltdowns. Hinshaw, who got into programming in the 1960s when computers took up entire rooms…

It is one of the most recognizable buildings in the world, and not just because it symbolizes America’s military. It was also the location of one of America’s most horrific terrorism events after American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the building on September 11, 2001, killing 184 people—64 on…

Jaguar has stuck with the alpha-numeric names, as with this classic XK140 convertible. Si Griffiths/CC BY-SA 3.0 See if you can guess which of these cars is a luxury car and which is a cheaper, mass-market car, just by the name: ES350 A8 Yaris LT200 Spark Velozes C300 Fiesta Chances are, you picked…

Shortly after Joaquín “ El Chapo ” Guzmán escaped from Mexico’s supermax Altiplano fortress-prison, a period when his Sinaloa Cartel seemed to have near-total impunity, Spanish documentarian David Beriain somehow arranged to embed for three months with the cartel. With 100,000 slain in the last…

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto by Eric HughesPrivacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one

Back-to-back severe bleaching events have affected two-thirds of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef , new aerial surveys have found. The findings have caused alarm among scientists, who say the proximity of the 2016 and 2017 bleaching events is unprecedented for the reef, and will give damaged coral…

For a while there, everyone was going mad for modular. A phone with swappable hardware parts was going to be the industry's next radical evolution. Google demoed Project Ara with its clever endoskeleton frame, LG launched its G5 flagship with a detachable chin that connected with other accessories,…

“I probably started reading ultra hardcore about seven or eight years ago,” says Tom Bilyeu, an entrepreneur based in Los Angeles. “Ultra hardcore” means that Bilyeu reads everywhere: While he brushes his teeth, while he gets dressed, in the 30 seconds it takes to cross rooms in his house, he’s…

March28, 2017 12 min read This story appears in the April 2017 issue of Entrepreneur . Subscribe » In the spring of 2016, Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck went on CNBC to make a bold prediction: Chipotle comparable sales would fall by 29 percent in its first quarter. The network’s anchor seemed skeptical.…

Lock them in. Bill their insurer. Kick them out. How scores of employees and patients say America’s largest psychiatric chain turns patients into profits. This is part of a BuzzFeed News Investigation. Other main stories in the series include: A Six-Year-Old Gets Locked Up The Dark Side Of Shadow…

OVER a couple of days in February, hundreds of thousands of point-of-sale printers in restaurants around the world began behaving strangely. Some churned out bizarre pictures of computers and giant robots signed, “with love from the hacker God himself”. Some informed their owners that, “YOUR PRINTER…

Chinese emissions caused more than twice the number of deaths worldwide than the emissions of any other region, followed by emissions produced in India and the rest of the Asia region.Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Western consumers who buy cheap imported toys, clothes and mobile phones are…

A new report highlights victims of human trafficking in the food industry, from farm workers to restaurant bus staff, cooks and wait staff. Some victims are exploited for both sex and labor. Juanmonino/Getty Images They come from places like Vietnam, China, Mexico and Guatemala, lured by promises of…

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. March 24, 2017, 8:32 PM GMT / Updated March 24, 2017, 8:32 PM GMT / Source: Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. — A December oil pipeline spill in western North Dakota might…

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dozens of California communities have experienced recent rates of childhood lead poisoning that surpass those of Flint, Michigan, with one Fresno locale showing rates nearly three times higher, blood testing data obtained by Reuters shows. The data shows how lead poisoning…

On a heavily protected military base some 15 miles south of Washington, D.C., sits the massive headquarters of a spy agency few know exists. Even Barack Obama, five months into his presidency, seemed not to have recognized its name. While shaking hands at a Five Guys hamburger restaurant in…

‘The gap between lawmakers’ calls to blindly increase spending at DoD versus those of internal auditors to curtail its waste isn’t a new problem.’ President Trump’s budget proposals focusing on the Department of Defense.Photograph: Jon Elswick/AP On Thursday, Donald Trump released a preliminary…

Briefly Stuff that matters A bitter pill Shutterstock But most Americans don’t know it. They can’t name a single risk it poses to our health. Enter the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, an organization aiming to spread awareness about the health hazards of our overheating world. The…

Lorraine Chow Mar. 15, 2017 10:14AM EST Oil trapped by a berm and siphon dam in a dry ravine near Rangely, Colorado after a Chevron pipeline spill earlier this month. Photo credit: Environmental Protection Agency Cleanup efforts are underway after a failed Chevron Corporation pipeline released about…

Three years after the Social Security Administration declared me totally and permanently disabled, I decided to give up my Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits and give working another try. After months of looking, I began a new job three weeks ago. Two weeks after I started,…

Maureen Ohlhausen said the Federal Trade Commission is ‘not primarily a regulator’.Photograph: Susan Walsh/Associated Press The acting head of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) under Donald Trump said that the agency is “not primarily a regulator” in a conversation with the Guardian on Monday.…

Oil Boom Shifts The Landscape Of Rural North Dakota Eight of the world’s largest oil companies are responsible for as much of the climate-damaging pollution spewed into the atmosphere as the entire U.S., according to a study by a London-based researcher. Saudi Aramco, Exxon Mobil Corp., OAO Gazprom,…

The AUC rightwing paramilitaries left victims all over Colombia. Here family members mourn at a funeral in Buga, about 160 miles south-west of Bogotá, in 2001.Photograph: Oswaldo Paez/AP Hernán Giraldo Serna and the men who were under his command in a broad area of northern Colombia murdered more…

Thursday, March 2, 2017 Posted By Max Brantley on Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 2:00 PM click to enlarge TOO DANGEROUS FOR ARKANSAS: A new bill would ban his work from public schools. The deadline for new legislation is fast approaching and it can't come too soon. Just in from Sen. Rep. Kim Hendren :…

One in five species now face extinction, but that figure could rise to as many as half within 80 years.Photograph: Georgina Goodwin/Barcroft Media One in five species on Earth now faces extinction, and that will rise to 50% by the end of the century unless urgent action is taken. That is the stark…

Farmers Gualberto Casanova (left) and Dionisio Yam Moo stand among young corn plants in Yam Moo's improved milpa plot. Gabriel Popkin Dionisio Yam Moo stands about four-and-a-half-feet tall, and his skin is weathered from years in the tropical sun. A "proudly Mayan" farmer, he grows corn, beans and…

Julia Francisco Martínez is the widow of the indigenous activist and human rights defender Francisco Martínez Márquez, who was found murdered in January 2015.Photograph: Giles Clarke/Global Witness High-ranking politicians and business tycoons are implicated in a wave of violence against…

The FBI’s Rap Back program is quietly transforming the way employers conduct background checks. While routine background checks provide employers with a one-time “snapshot” of their employee’s past criminal history, employers enrolled in federal and state Rap Back programs receive ongoing, real-time…

A tract of Amazon rain forest, which has been cleared by loggers and farmers for agriculture, is seen near Santarem, Brazil, in April 2013. (Nacho Doce/Reuters) The world’s natural places are disappearing at a galloping clip, says a new study , released Friday in the journal Science Advances. It…

On the surface, China’s complete ban of ivory sales seems to fulfill a 2015 pledge made with the U.S. to end the ivory trade. But so far, Beijing hasn’t released details on what will happen with the nation’s massive legal and illegal stockpiles. The government alone maintains an estimated 20 to 30…

A crack in the Larsen C ice shelf as photographed Nov. 10. (John Sonntag/NASA) This story has been updated. An enormous rift in one of Antarctica’s largest ice shelves grew dramatically over the past month, and a chunk nearly the size of Delaware could break away as soon as later this winter,…