Helicopter pilot Jerry Ferguson was cruising through the skies above Phoenix on Monday as thunderstorms erupted around the desert city. While filming the weather for a local television station, Ferguson took a picture that ranks among the best photos ever captured of a dangerous meteorological phenomenon known as a microburst. Microbursts occur when a rush of rain cooled air collapses toward the g
Inside a German U-boat A sunken sub, raised from the depths Alex Q. Arbuckle 1918 Control room looking aft, starboard side. The manhole to the periscope well and various valve wheels for flooding and blowing are visible. Credit: Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Throughout World War I, Germany used its fleet of 351 unterseeboote (colloquially called U-boats in English) to wage submarine warfare again
Infrared satellite image of Super Typhoon Vongfong as of Oct. 7, 2014. Credit: NOAA UPDATE, Oct. 8, 12:15 p.m. ET: Super Typhoon Vongfong is maintaining its extraordinary Category 5 intensity on Wednesday as it moves westward over the open waters of the West Pacific. You can read more details here. UPDATE, Oct. 7, 10:45 p.m. ET: Super Typhoon Vongfong is maintaining its extraordinary intensity, wi
There are more than 10,000 near-Earth objects that have been identified so far — asteroids and comets of varying sizes that approach the Earth’s orbital distance to within about 28 million miles. Of the 10,000 discoveries, roughly 10% are larger than six-tenths of a mile in size — large enough to have disastrous global consequences should one impact the Earth. This is one of them. First discovered
DARPA BigDog Robot Throws Cinder Blocks, Proves It's Boss Robots are everywhere. In our cars, our factories and our homes. They're also running up the sides of steep hills and completely mastering tough terrain. At least that was BigDog's signature move -- until now. The Boston Dynamics robot finally has an arm and it's using it to toss cinder blocks clear across the room. Placed where the "dog's"
The versatility of 3D printing is pretty incredible. So far, we've seen robots, self-vaccination kits and personalized action figures created solely through 3D printers. But a full-sized house? That's impossible. Right? Janjaap Ruijssenaars, a Dutch architect with Universal Architecture, doesn't think so. He's planning on constructing a two-story, futuristic “Landscape House” using a custom-design
The social network on Monday announced that Messenger for Windows, a standalone app that lets you IM friends via Windows 7, will be coming out of beta in a few weeks. "Millions of people log into Facebook every day to keep up with friends. They also browse other websites and run computer programs, so it’s easy to miss important stuff," reads a post on Facebook's blog. "Maybe a cousin just posted a
Wikipedia, Reddit and MoveOn.org have committed to blacking out their sites on Wednesday in protest of SOPA and PIPA. But the average person on the street still hasn't heard those bills' names. Just why is it making Internet companies so upset? Tutorspree founder Aaron Harris is one of many who can't articulate the reasons behind the backlash to his satisfaction -- but he matches tutors and studen
Revenge is a dish best served cloned. Twitpic founder Noah Everett has unveiled Heello, his feature-for-feature copy of Twitter. The move comes just a day after Twitter completed the rollout of its photo-sharing service -- a direct competitor to Twitpic. Heello looks and acts like Twitter in almost every way. Instead of tweeting, users send "pings" to their followers. Instead of retweeting, users
"In Japan, we also see an unfulfilled market need with respect to premium feature film and TV content and very favorable environmental factors to a service like ours, including extensive broadband penetration, smart phone and other Internet-connected device ubiquity, and strong consumer interest," Johannes Larcher, senior vice president of international, wrote on Hulu's blog Wednesday. "We have be
Wall Street Journal Launches WikiLeaks-Style Site for Whistle-Blowers On Thursday, the paper launched WSJ SafeHouse, a WikiLeaks-style whistle-blower site. "SafeHouse will enable the collection of information and documents that could be used in the generation of trustworthy news stories," Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of Dow Jones & Company and managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, said in
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