Alien Nations: Why Life on Other Planets Will Resemble Ours

Hard science offers a remarkably detailed…

We Finally Figured Out Who Makes wikiHow’s Bizarre Art

Getting to the bottom of one of the internet’s…

Reaction GIFs of Black People Are More Problematic Than You Think

‘Digital blackface’ dehumanizes…

Microprocessing

Millennials Love Zillow Because They’ll Never Own a Home

Real estate apps and Instagram accounts have become a digital fantasyland for broke millennials

How Science Fiction Imagined the 2020s

What ‘Blade Runner,’ cyberpunk, and Octavia Butler had to say…

Why You Don’t Need an Advanced Mathematics Degree to Be a Programmer

A computer science professor…

Here’s What Happened to the Theranos Headquarters

There’s a satisfying irony in a medical school…

A Huge Underwater Electric Fence Is the Great Lakes’ Big Hope Against a Carp Invasion

The Pinched Fingers Emoji’s Creator Explains Its Meaning

Here’s how the most popular new addition to…

How Google Earth Mapped 98% of the World

And how it overcame device constraints to bring it to you