Charles Choi

Oldest Water on Earth Found Deep Underground

livescience.com — A scientists takes a sample of water from a mine deep underground in Ontario, Canada. The water turned out to be 2.6 billion years old, the oldest known water on Earth.CREDIT: B. Sherwood Lollar et al.

Cyberattacks on Rise Against U.S. Corporations

nytimes.com — WASHINGTON - A new wave of cyberattacks is striking American corporations, prompting warnings from federal officials, including a vague one issued last week by the Department of Homeland Security. This time, officials say, the attackers' aim is not espionage but sabotage, and the source seems to be somewhere in the Middle East.

EFF to Appeals Court: Stop the Porn Troll Shakedown Scheme

eff.org — Washington, D.C. - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal appeals court today to stop a copyright troll's shakedown scheme in a case linked to the notorious Prenda Law firm.

At The Corner of Ampere & Ohm In The Bronx (Yes, This Intersection Actually Exists!)

scoutingny.com — Ha, OK, this is the strangest thing. Last week, I was driving around the east side of the Bronx when I found myself in a nice residential area... I happened to look up and notice the street sign: Huh. Ampere Ave. Sort of an unusual street name for a residential neighborhood.

A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon: David Grann: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

amazon.com — Amazon Exclusive: John Grisham Reviews The Lost City of Z Since first publishing A Time to Kill in 1988, John Grisham has written twenty novels and one work of nonfiction, The Innocent Man. His second novel, The Firm, spent 47 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, becoming the bestselling novel of 1991.

Water on Earth and Moon May Have Same Source

space.com — Backscatter electron image of a lunar melt inclusion from Apollo 17 sample 74220, enclosed within an olivine crystal. The inclusion is 30 μm in diameter. Skeletal crystals within the melt inclusion are a fine mixture of olivine and ilmenite. Dark area in the lower-left is an ion microprobe sputter crater.

Get yourself 3D scanned and printed out as a Stormtrooper figurine or trapped in carbonite at Disney World

boingboing.net — Starting May 17, Disney World is running a "D-Tech" event at Disney Hollywood Studios wherein you can get your head scanned and 3D printed on a Stormtrooper figurine, or trapped in carbonite: The 10-minute experience uses the world's highest-resolution, single-shot 3D face scanner created by our Imagineering scientists with Disney Research labs.