Russian scientists discovered a secret military base in the Arctic. It is situated on the island of Alexandra Land 1,000 km from the North Pole 0150 and was built in 1942. This is the time Adolf Hitler attacked Russia. I think a hallucinogenic drug has been put in my tea: Secret Nazi military base…

“Caution - Do Not Dig” Top Places in Illinois Park Ridge, Illinois Wood Library and Museum of Anesthesiology Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment. 42.0184, -87.8408 Added by mbison Chicago, Illinois Busy Beaver Button Co. The world's only known button museum. 41.9173, -87.7144…

I t was a powerful piece of technology created for an important customer. The Medusa system, named after the mythical Greek monster with snakes instead of hair, had one main purpose: to vacuum up vast quantities of internet data at an astonishing speed. The technology was designed by Endace, a…

Years ago, there was an old guy in my neighborhood named Pete. His hair was white and disheveled, and he liked to wheel his small shopping cart up and down the street and hand out political flyers to everyone he met. Some days the flyers were about the dangers of nuclear power. Some days they were…

Two of Planet's Dove satellite (NASA) The White House is announcing its plan today to promote the use of small space satellites — a move aimed at strengthening the U.S.’ burgeoning commercial space industry. The project, called "Harnessing the Small Satellite Revolution," is meant to spur…

T wo fizzy drinks a day could double the risk of diabetes - even if they are diet versions - a Swedish study has found. Research by the Karolinska Institute on 2,800 adults found that those who consumed at least two 200ml servings of soft drinks daily were 2.4 times as likely to suffer from a form…

I n many ways, today’s humans are superior to their ancestors. We live longer; we have more leisure time. We can get halfway around the globe in a day. We can instantaneously find the answer to most any question. And so forth. Despite all this good stuff, we’re still victims to fickle minds — still…

Robots are taking over factories and warehouses, but their next stop might be your desktop or kitchen counter. These tiny “Zooids” work together at high speed to act as tools, display information or move things around like little ants. The bots, named after the individual creatures that make up…

This article, originally published on October 16, 2016, was updated on March 21, 2017. It appears in abridged form in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Kurdish soldiers stood on a berm, next to a gunner’s dugout, in a corner of their position. It was one of several forward…

Before Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and Trayvon Martin, there was Emmett Till, a black teenager who was murdered in Mississippi after allegedly whistling at a white woman. The failure to punish his killers for their crimes—helped by a leak of his father's World War II military file—made Till an…

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Over the past year, media reports and op-eds have examined the lead poisoning disaster in Flint, Michigan, from a variety of angles. Some focus on Michigan’s emergency manager laws , which the Republican-dominated legislature has used to suspend democracy in majority-African-American cities,…

Anthony Ray Hinton: ‘I had to watch 54 men walk past my cell to be executed.’Photograph: Mark Chilvers for the Guardian I was 29 and mowing the lawn at my mother’s house in Birmingham, Alabama , on a hot day in July 1985 when I looked up and saw two police officers. When my mom saw the handcuffs,…

The sign that marks where Emmett Till's body was found in the Tallahatchie River has been riddled with bullets. (Photo11: Emmett Till Memory Project) The historical sign marking where Emmett Till’s body was found in the Tallahatchie River in 1955 has been riddled with bullets. Since the Emmett Till…

Dan Zukowski Oct. 21, 2016 09:49AM EST Discovery Communications and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced Wednesday a partnership to conserve nearly 1 million acres of critical tiger habitat in India and Bhutan in hopes of doubling the world's population of tigers by 2022. The big cats are known to…

Shutterstock Sponsored By on Oct 11, 2016 Get your daily dose of good news from Grist Subscribe to The Beacon This article is published in partnership with: The most pervasive phenomenon you’re not aware of affects half the people alive right now. It prevents them from fully taking advantage of…

M oving to Jordan Downs in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles meant Nuvia Perez’s children would finally have the space to be kids. Her family — her husband and three children ages 13, seven, and two — had been living in incredibly cramped quarters, sharing one bedroom of a two-bedroom house and…

A government watchdog's report says Flint residents' exposure to lead in city drinking water could have been stopped months earlier by federal regulators. Carlos Osorio/AP The Environmental Protection Agency had the authority and information to issue an emergency order protecting residents of Flint,…

Many migrants said they were fleeing direct threats and violence targeting themselves or their families; half had lost a relative through violence in the past two years.Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Central American migrants are suffering from record levels of mental health problems, amid a rise in…

One of the reforms designed to rein in the surveillance authorities of the National Security Agency has perhaps inadvertently solved a technical problem for the spy outfit and granted it potential access to much more data than before, a former top official told ABC News. Before the signing of the…

Soon, foreign visitors to the United States will be expected to tell U.S. authorities about their social media accounts. U.S. Customs and Border Protection wants to start collecting “information associated with your online presence” from travelers from countries eligible for a visa waiver ,…

'Black Mirror' Is Back, Reflecting Our Technological Fears Listen· 3:42 3:42 Queue Download Embed Transcript Facebook Twitter Google+ Email October 21, 20164:53 AM ET

In 1726, during a long voyage from London to Philadelphia, a young printer hatched the idea of using a notebook to systematically chart his efforts to become a better man. He set out 13 virtues — including industry, justice, tranquillity and temperance — and his plan was to focus on each in turn in…

A community hall that was struck by an air strike during a funeral on October 8, in Sanaa, Yemen Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters UN experts investigating the double bombing of a packed funeral hall in the rebel-held Yemeni capital on Oct. 8 are accusing the Saudi -led coalition of violating international…

Lindsey Grayzel, an independent film-maker from Portland, Oregon, was arrested and jailed on 11 October while filming at a pipeline protest in Washington state.Photograph: Ben Grayzel Two documentary film-makers are facing decades in prison for recording US oil pipeline protests, with serious felony…

Campaigning this summer and into the fall, Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that crime is plaguing American cities and what the country needs is a return to law and order — more cops, and consequently, more prosecutions. Aside from the fact that crime in most American cities remains at historic…

The web design platform Weebly was hacked in February, according to the data breach notification site LeakedSource. Usernames and passwords for more than 43 million accounts were taken in the breach, although the passwords are secured with the strong hashing algorithm bcrypt. Weebly said in an email…

Things were different in Silicon Valley in the distant year of 2012, when iPhone sales were skyrocketing and you could still buy a house in Palo Alto for less than $2 million. Back then, most restaurants had menus, not tasting menus. Chief executive officers could say something grandiose at a tech…

Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it LESS secure. Vijay Pandurangan Oct 19, 2016 Recently, account takeovers, email hacking, and targeted phishing attacks have been all over the news. Hacks of various politicians, allegedly carried out by Russian hackers, have yielded troves of…

Tiago Simões Oct 20, 2016 World Press Photo of the Year 2013, John Stanmeyer, USA, VII for National Geographic In the last few years, we (the engineers for a visual programming platform used to create enterprise apps) started receiving requests for our platform to enable the development of mobile…

T he first time I saw a free-living giraffe was in Tanzania’s Arusha National Park, where I was astounded by a yellow-and-brown head gliding gracefully and, it seemed, impossibly high above the tops of tall acacia trees. That was 11 years ago and underscored why the giraffe has remained one of my…

Astronomers can't see “Planet Nine.” But it makes its presence known. The massive hypothetical object , which supposedly looms at the edge of our solar system, has been invoked to explain the strange clustering of objects in the Kuiper belt and the unusual way they orbit the Sun. Now Planet Nine…

The great comedian Mel Brooks once contrasted comedy and tragedy. “Tragedy is when I cut my finger,” he said. “Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” Mr. Brooks neatly encapsulates our current public culture of selfish nastiness. From this year’s ghastly presidential race, to the…

When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the company’s “number one priority when we contemplate new kinds of advertising products.” And, for nearly a decade, Google did in fact keep DoubleClick’s massive database of…

California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a U.S. Senate Democratic candidate, has launched in investigation into allegations that Wells Fargo & Co. committed criminal identity theft when employees opened millions of accounts without customer consent. Mark J. Terrill/AP California Attorney General…

Waterkeeper Alliance Oct. 19, 2016 09:11AM EST Waterkeeper Alliance and Sound Rivers have discovered a large coal ash spill into the Neuse River from the Duke Energy H.F. Lee facility, 10 miles upstream of Goldsboro, North Carolina . A substantial but undetermined amount of coal ash was found…

The ACLU has identified 23 legal opinions that contain new or significant interpretations of surveillance law — affecting the government’s use of malware, its attempts to compel technology companies to circumvent encryption, and the CIA’s bulk collection of financial records under the Patriot Act —…

DENVER -- An Air Force base in Colorado said Tuesday it accidentally released about 150,000 gallons of water containing toxic chemicals into the sewer system of the adjacent city of Colorado Springs, but the potential health hazards weren’t immediately known. Peterson Air Force Base said the water…

Humans are on track to eating into extinction hundreds of terrestrial mammal species in the world, according to a new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science. The study, which is the first global assessment of the effects of illegal hunting on land mammals, highlights “not only the…

The Making of Blonde on Blonde in Nashville A memory from the summer of 1966: Across the Top 40 airwaves, an insistent drum beat led off a strange, new hit song. Some listeners thought the song too explicit, its subject of wild lunacy too coarse, even cruel; several radio-station directors banned…