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Anti-Poaching Tech: Can Heat-Seeking Planes, Drones, and DNA Mapping Save the Rhino?
Crime syndicates are in the process of driving rhinos, elephants, and tigers into extinction. Can the latest anti-poacher tech save their hides?
NASA Flies Mission to Map Ice Cover Across Antarctica, Live-Tweets the Whole Thing
Today, scientists from its IceBridge mission embarked on an 11-hour flight over West Antarctica, and they live-tweeted the whole thing. With pics and a Q+A session to boot.
This Data Visualization of America's Wind Is Beautiful
About a third of the country’s wind is being pulled into a massive whirlpool by Sandy’s force, and it’s all at a pretty high rate of sustained speed.
3D Projection Mapping With Your Favorite Nintendo Games
Visuatari, from new visual design company Iluzion, brings a new dimension to classic video games.
Track Every Species on Earth with the Map of Life
There are nearly two million described species of animal and plant life in the world, with estimates of the total number of species ranging from a few to many multiples of those described. On top of the mammoth zoological task of cataloging all that...