Working from a beachside shack on California's Monterey Bay, Nate Lindsey fired a stream of infrared laser pulses down a long fiber-optic cable extending onto the ocean floor. The miles-long cable had been there for a decade, transmitting data to and from scientific instruments on the seafloor, but Lindsey, a geoscientist at UC Berkeley, was…

On their own, the images kindle and spellbind. In the collective, however, they transform into something even more incandescent. There is Spike Lee, courtside at a Knicks basketball game, his hands placed at his hips as if to suggest a kind of self-satisfaction. And Prince in a pair of black sunglasses furiously sipping from a…

If all goes according to plan, 3.21 million people will pass through Los Angeles International Airport in the two weeks surrounding the Thanksgiving holiday—equivalent, as the organization that runs the airport points out, to nearly 80 percent of the city’s population. Even on light days, the number of people who move through the 3,500-acre LAX…

Before there was Disney+ or Netflix, Blu-ray or DVD, YouTube or HBO, VHS or Betamax, or even basic cable television, families and friends looking to sprawl out on every available couch, chair, and inch of floor space to watch a movie as they digested their Thanksgiving dinner were fairly limited in their “What should we…

Synchronize your watches startup fans, and get ready to score serious savings on passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019. For today only, you can get 2 passes for the price of…

Ah, Black Friday. The day of a zillion “deals” — some good, many bad, most just meant to clear the shelves for next year’s models. Hidden amidst ten thousand “LOWEST…

With popular social networks seeing some downtime, most shops closed, and many people off work today for Thanksgiving, bargain hunters are flocking online to start their holiday shopping. Adobe says…

Monitoring seismic activity all over the world is an important task, but one that requires equipment to be at the site it’s measuring — difficult in the middle of the…

Greg M. Epstein is the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard and MIT, and the author of the New York Times bestselling book Good Without God. Described as a “godfather to the…

Greg M. Epstein is the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard and MIT, and the author of the New York Times bestselling book Good Without God. Described as a “godfather to the…