Daniel Oberhaus
Slate
New Delhi, DL, India
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Why We Keep Sending Music to Extraterrestrials
Our appreciation of music is part of what makes us human—and could teach ET a lot about us, too. → Read More
The Complicated Economy of Open Source Software
A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development. → Read More
Researchers Use AI to Discover Evidence of Unknown Human Ancestor In Our DNA
The research explains how a third ancient human ancestor bred with humans to produce the modern human genome. → Read More
Researchers Developed a Technique to Turn Nearly a Quarter of Our Plastic Waste into Fuel
The process could help convert millions of tons of plastic we generate every year into an gasoline and diesel-like fuel. → Read More
Leaving Facebook Makes You Happier and Less Informed, Study Finds
When researchers measured the welfare of hundreds of people who left Facebook for a month, they found they were happier, less politically informed, more active in IRL activities, and less likely to go back to Facebook. → Read More
Scientists Identify Key Neural Mechanisms Behind an LSD Trip
LSD appears to cause information to disintegrate as it is passed through a neural circuit that determines how we process internal and external stimuli. → Read More
I Stopped Using a Computer Mouse for a Week and It Was Amazing
Your life will be so much easier if you force yourself to learn keyboard shortcuts. → Read More
The ‘World’s Most Beautiful Data Center’ is a Supercomputer Housed in a Church
The MareNostrum 4 is only the world’s 25th most powerful supercomputer, but it definitely has the most style. → Read More
Astronomers Discover a Supermassive Black Hole Rotating At Half the Speed of Light
The astronomers took advantage of a fortuitous discovery to measure the rotation of a supermassive black hole with unprecedented accuracy. → Read More
Tons of Stars Are Actually Solid 'Crystal Spheres' Hanging In Space
Turning into crystal spheres is the ultimate fate of billions of stars in our galaxy, including our own Sun. → Read More
There’s a Growing Population of Wild Monkeys With a Deadly Herpes Virus in Florida
The risk that humans may contract the deadly herpes virus is low, but the number of monkeys with the virus is set to explode, increasing risk of contact. → Read More
An Amoeba-Based Computer Calculated Approximate Solutions to a Very Hard Math Problem
These single-celled organisms have a strange computing capacity that allows them to generate approximate solutions to a computationally complex problem known as the “traveling salesman problem.” → Read More
This Guy Made a ‘Game Boy Supercomputer’ That Can Handle 1 Billion Frames Per Second
Teaching AI how to transfer knowledge from one game to another is a tricky task, but some clever hardware hacking offered a solution. → Read More
Watch Sound Waves Levitate Small Objects In Different Directions
A new type of acoustic levitation called "holographic acoustic tweezers" is mesmerizing to watch. → Read More
The Decline of American Peyote
The small, bulbous peyote cactus is central to the religious rituals of the Native American Church, but poaching and unsustainable harvesting practices put it at risk of extinction in the United States. → Read More
How I Quit Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon
A reflection on my month without Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, plus a how-to guide if you want to quit the biggest companies in tech. → Read More
Community Activists Kill Elon Musk's Plan for an Underground Freeway Tunnel in LA
Elon Musk tried to bypass a full environmental review for his test tunnel, but community groups sued and won. → Read More
Complex Systems Theorists Explain Why Democracy Is Dying
A team of mathematicians, physicists, philosophers and psychologists argue that the decline of democracies is poorly understood, but concepts from complex systems theory may offer a solution. → Read More
How I Refilled My Juul With DIY Mango Vape Juice
Although the FDA backtracked on its threat to ban e-cigarette juices, vapers can save a lot of time and money by making it themselves. → Read More
Researchers Created Fake 'Master' Fingerprints to Unlock Smartphones
It’s the same principle as a master key, but applied to biometric identification with a high rate of success. → Read More