, the Stone Age human dubbed "The Iceman," is perhaps one of the most famous mummies to emerge from ice. But with glaciers around the world melting , many more bodies — some relatively new, others ancient — are now emerging. Global warming is giving back many once thought lost forever. Related…

AdBlock Plus has successfully defended itself in court for the second time in five weeks. The service prevents ads from appearing on websites unless it has given them permission to be displayed. German broadcasters RTL and ProSiebenSat.1 had argued that browser plug-in was anti-competitive and…

Time Get more info More 78 Scores Engadget 78 Critic 8 Reviews 7.5 Users 6 Reviews 8.5 Key Specs Form factor Other Operating system Other Maximum battery life Up to 16820 For two years, Pebble was the smartwatch company to beat. In 2012, it raised over $10 million on Kickstarter for its simple,…

This article was originally published on The Conversation . The publication contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights . Elon Musk has built a US$12 billion company in an endeavour to pave the way to Mars for humanity. He insists that Mars is a “long-term insurance…

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Print this article Share By: Melvin Mathew & Alpana Chettri It is a well-known fact that the first hour immediately following a road accident, otherwise known as the ‘golden hour’, is crucial to determining the chances of survival of victims – especially those who have sustained serious injuries to…

On any given day, in any police department in the nation, 15 percent of officers will do the right thing no matter what is happening. Fifteen percent of officers will abuse their authority at every opportunity. The remaining 70 percent could go either way depending on whom they are working with.…

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Deliberate modification of the skull, also called the “Toulouse deformity.” (Photo: Didier Descouens/WikiCommons CC BY-SA 3.0 ) In 2013, archaeologists working in Alsace, in eastern France, uncovered something incongruous, and to the untrained eye, very strange. The researchers discovered the tomb…

Soon after Maryanne Wolf published “ Proust and the Squid ,” a history of the science and the development of the reading brain from antiquity to the twenty-first century, she began to receive letters from readers. Hundreds of them. While the backgrounds of the writers varied, a theme began to…

The Fitbit Force. Jawbone has sued Fitbit, which has filed for an initial public stock offering. SAN FRANCISCO — Close to what should be one of the biggest events of Fitbit’s life — its initial public offering of stock — the maker of wearable health trackers is facing an unexpected challenge: a…

- May. 28th 2015 8:26 am ET @FredericLambert In a press release today, Ford announced that they are opening to competitors the patents and patent applications they have for electric vehicles. The move is not unlike what Tesla did last year when they opened all their patents in the spirit of…

The old children’s song about marching ants is a good explanation for why traffic engineers love them. Ants — most are teeny creatures with brains smaller than pinheads — engineer traffic better than humans do. Ants never run into stop-and-go-traffic or gridlock on the trail. In fact, the more ants…

A few months ago I went to Princeton University to see what the young people who are going to be running our country in a few decades are like. Faculty members gave me the names of a few dozen articulate students, and I sent them e-mails, inviting them out to lunch or dinner in small groups. I would…

NASA/Taschen Star-forming nebula in the constellation Carina, 7,200 light-years from earth, 2006-2008 When we see things for the first time, the pictures are always a surprise. Nature’s imagination is richer than ours. We imagine things to be simple and Nature makes them complicated. In Expanding…

It’s been rumored for weeks, but consider it mostly official: Google is launching a photo service separate of Google+. We just heard it straight from the horse’s mouth while walking the halls of Google I/O, though I don’t think we were supposed to hear it just yet. It’ll be announced during Google’s…

Detail from F.G. Gainsford’s portrait of John Polidori, ca. 1816, the year he would accompany Lord Byron to his Lake Geneva villa. by Andrew McConnell Stott Piece originally posted at Public Domain Review . A vampire is a thirsty thing, spreading metaphors like antigens through its victim’s blood.…

J ulian Jaynes was living out of a couple of suitcases in a Princeton dorm in the early 1970s. He must have been an odd sight there among the undergraduates, some of whom knew him as a lecturer who taught psychology, holding forth in a deep baritone voice. He was in his early 50s, a fairly heavy…

How likely is it that children who grow up in very poor families go to college? How about children who grow up in very rich families? We’d like you to draw your guess for every income level on the chart below. If you think the chances of enrolling in college (or vocational school) are about the same…

Corbis The war on coal is not justpolitical rhetoric, or a paranoid fantasy concocted by rapacious polluters.It’s real and it’s relentless. Over the past five years, it has killed acoal-fired power plant every 10 days. It has quietly transformed the U.S. electricgrid and the global climate debate.…

In April 1989, a Michigan developer named John Rapanos dumped fill on 54 acres of wetlands he owned to make way for a shopping center. He did not have a permit, and when the state told him to stop, he refused. Courts found him in violation of the federal Clean Water Act. Prosecutors wanted to send…

Greenpeace activists burn a symbol of carbon dioxide at the Klingenberg power plant in Berlin. ‘As the evidence ­accumulates, it now seems that climate change was the ­commonest cause of mass ­extinction in the Earth’s prehistory.' Photograph: Theo Heimann/AFP/Getty D o you want to know the real…

A livery driver for a fleet owner in Boston was looking for a way to obtain his own car and drive for Uber, the popular ride-sharing service. He heard about a vehicle financing program Uber was promoting to drivers who, like him, had a poor credit history. Roger, who asked to use only his first name…

This police video isn’t action-packed. It’s not a dramatic institutional killing captured by a bystander, as in the Eric Garner or Walter Scott cases. But if you want to understand where the pent-up anger toward police in inner-city neighborhoods comes from, scenes like this – showing the lead-up to…

Demonstrators protest against the legislation to give Obama fast-track authority to advance trade deals, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership.Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images A decade in the making, the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is reaching its climax and as Congress…

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Español The hangover from 2014’s FIFA World Cup is not yet over for Brazil. Barely a year after the last of the fans disappeared, at least four of the 12 stadiums used for international matches are facing severe financial problems. The monolithic sporting complexes, dubbed e lefantinhos brancos…

An exhausted migrant worker travels back to his labour camp at the end of the day in Qatar. Photograph: Pete Pattisson Nepalese migrants building the infrastructure to host the 2022 World Cup have died at a rate of one every two days in 2014 – despite Qatar’s promises to improve their working…

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Royal Dutch Shell’s oil drilling rig Polar Pioneer is towed towards a dock in Seattle.Photograph: Elaine Thompson/AP Bosses at the world’s big five oil companies have been showered with bonus payouts linked to a $1tn (£650bn) crescendo of spending on fossil fuel exploration and extraction over nine…

Two thirds of the population in Yemen do not have access to clean water supply, according to an international aid organisation. Oxfam said on Tuesday that the Saudi-led coalition carrying out airstrikes against Houthi rebels has contributed to an extra three million Yemenis being denied drinking…

Representatives Devin Nunes, left, and Paul D. Ryan in March. Mr. Nunes said he expected the talks to result in an agreement. WASHINGTON — Senior lawmakers are scrambling this week in rare recess negotiations to agree on a face-saving change to legislation that would rein in the National Security…

(updated below) The New York Times this morning has an extraordinary article claiming that the U.S. is being hampered in its war against ISIS because of its extreme — even excessive — concern for civilians. “American officials say they are not striking significant — and obvious — Islamic State…

ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The world’s most popular sport was plunged into turmoil on Wednesday as seven senior soccer officials were arrested on U.S. corruption charges and faced extradition from Switzerland, whose authorities also announced a criminal investigation into the awarding of the next…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a victory to defense contractor KBR Inc in its legal fight with a former employee who filed a whistleblower suit accusing it of defrauding the U.S. government over water purification work in Iraq. The justices ruled 9-0 that a law that…

Across the country, people are dying from using untested, dangerous drugs that attempt to mimic marijuana. Ironically, there’s evidence that the public health emergency is being fueled specifically by the ongoing criminalization of real marijuana. Synthetic cannabinoids — known under a variety of…