Posts Tagged ‘Science’
The Western World keeps cutting its science research budget because of the economic crisis. As China rises—funneling tons of money into science—our obtuse politicians don’t realize…
You live your life at 2.4GHz. Your router, your cordless phone, your Bluetooth earpiece, your baby monitor and your garage opener all love and live on this radio frequency, and no others. Why?…
Welcome to Vocab Lesson, Gizmodo’s new weekly column on words—the ones you’ve heard, but can’t quite define, or the ones you haven’t, but might like to hear about. This week’s lesson: Th…
Apple has a new toy. It’s a materials company called Liquidmetal, and everybody’s talking! Problem is, nobody seems too sure what they’re talking about. So, Liquidmetal: What is this stuff? An…
In Sex at Dawn, Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá put to lie the notion of sexual monogamy as something intrinsically human, arguing we gave up sexual novelty for agriculture. “Agriculture” …