Recent satellite images show that the Spratly islands, a series of features in the South China Sea, are growing at a staggering pace. Tons of sand, rocks, coral cuttings, and concrete are transforming miniscule Chinese-occupied outcroppings into sizeable islands with harbors, large multi-story buildings, airstrips, and other government facilities.
Utah’s legislation has received a lot of attention, in part because the state occupies a symbolically important place in the history of the modern American death penalty.
The former secretary of state is scheduled to declare her second run for president on Twitter at noon eastern time on Sunday, the source told the Guardian, followed by a video and email announcement, then a series of conference calls mapping out a blitzkrieg tour beginning in Iowa and looking ahead to more early primary states.
The only thing better than getting yourself a snazzy new watch? Paying less than full price for it: Use the code “DiggApril” to save $10 off your next order from MVMT.
This week we learned that the bourbon apocalypse is a lie, humanity is on the verge of discovering alien life and why you should eat broccoli stalks.
The tornado was so massive and the damage so extensive that in some areas, plows had to push debris off the streets so emergency crews could reach survivors. At least one person died in the tornadoes that hit Illinois and other areas Thursday. Numerous injuries were also reported.
What can account for Hodor’s incessant Hodor-ing? Whether he intended it or not, George R. R. Martin created a character with a textbook example of a neurological condition called expressive aphasia.
Yes, the man with the greatest hair in football is leaving the game.
Fire-breathing, building-stomping Godzilla was welcomed in part of Tokyo on Thursday as a sign of prosperity, not destruction.
Good vs. evil is an easy sell of a narrative, and sportswriters have been quick to buy it as fact. But it’s insultingly shallow, and requires conveniently forgetting that Pacquiao is a shithead too.
How a memorial dedicated to a decisive WWI battle became an icon of Nazi Germany and was torn down by the Polish.
Italian neuroscientist Dr. Sergio Canavero says he's already identified the first patient in one of the riskiest, wildest medical endeavors to date: Putting the head of a 30-year-old man onto a donor body.
"As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. " — Albert Camus
Five years ago, a start-up called Intellitar garnered massive media attention by promising its users “virtual eternity.” Unfortunately, the company itself was not immortal.
For more than three decades, Dale Hansen has been a blustering, vainglorious, near-mythic figure in Dallas sportscasting. But now Hansen is becoming a moral beacon to the world.
A closer look at the organization’s methods offers a useful case study in the art of advocacy and negotiation.
Fully autonomous weapons would go a step beyond existing remote-controlled drones as they would be able to select and engage targets without meaningful human control. Although they do not exist yet, the rapid movement of technology in that direction has attracted international attention and concern.
eMelusine makes small, simple virtual spaces that feel as unknowable and vast as the human heart.
The greatest racing on Earth isn't happening in the premier race series. As F1 asphyxiates on its narrow formula, Le Mans Prototype cars get even more interesting.
Untangling the mysteries behind Bowe Bergdahl's rescue mission.
Clusters of Chinese vessels busily dredge white sand and pump it onto partly submerged coral, aptly named Mischief Reef, transforming it into an island.
San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon ordered an immediate internal investigation Thursday into what he called "disturbing" video showing an arrest by deputies after a horse pursuit that was caught on camera by NewsChopper4.
Robert A. Durst, the estranged member of a prominent Manhattan real estate family, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to two weapons charges.
The body that regulates Internet addresses is checking to see if it can crack down on a Canadian company accused of using the new ".sucks" domain name to extract exorbitant sums from celebrities and companies seeking to protect their public brands.
If you're looking for approximately two minutes of rockets blasting off into space in a resolution your computer probably can't display, have we got the video for you.
Tornadoes tore through parts of Iowa, Illinois and Ohio on Thursday in what forecasters from the National Weather Service warned is a "particularly dangerous situation."
Visit the former intersection of Goebbels Street and German Boulevard.
A fire official says a guard at the U.S. Census Bureau headquarters has been shot and critically wounded.
The video, released Thursday by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, shows what begins as a seemingly routine traffic stop.
A former Medellin cartel official has been a DEA informant for 27 years. Now he wants out.
Wednesday afternoon, BuzzFeed published a post by staff writer Arabelle Sicardi that openly criticized a bizarre advertising campaign by Dove. Thursday morning, however, BuzzFeed deleted the entire post and replaced it with a single sentence: “We pulled this post because it is not consistent with the tone of BuzzFeed Life.”
No one, not even the Illuminati, can control the weather. We are at its mercy. Until it rains, use less water.
British photographer Ed Thompson employs some of the very last Kodak Aerochrome III in existence, using the infrared film to reveal that which is imperceptible to human eyes.
As blizzards rage on in the darkest of winters at McMurdo Station, the isolated home base for American researchers on the southernmost continent of the planet, surrounded by snow-covered ice fields and an active volcano smoking in the background, one might wonder, what do they get up to in their downtime?
Facebook remains the dominant social network in the United States, including for the kids. But a new study provides a lot of nuance about who uses what social networks and how often they use them.
In the dark corners of our galaxy, there are billions of rogue planets roaming around, starless — can they support life?
The biggest extinction event in planetary history was driven by the rapid acidification of our oceans, a new study concludes. That doesn’t bode well for the present, given the disturbing rate that our seas are acidifying right now.
Your "Mad Men"-style furniture fetish, explained.
Because no one is more excitable than a pair of valets who have just binged watch 40 hours of sex, violence, and dragons.
There is a blurry line separating “normal” healthy eating and orthorexia nervosa, but one way to define the condition is when eating “healthily” causes significant distress or negative consequences in a person’s life.
Once one of college basketball's brightest coaches, Jason Rabedeaux died mysteriously in Saigon, leaving his loved ones and colleagues to grapple with how far he'd fallen.
Want to feel untalented today? Watch this Barcelona player do a ridiculous thing with a soccer ball.
It might sound aphoristic to say that “tomorrow is another day,” but it’s the one motto that convinces me I’m not a lost cause when I’m buried under the covers in yesterday’s pajamas with takeout.
The comebacks of many flagship 2000s bands show it’s time to eliminate this outdated, insular, and implicitly racist term.
"Last night, we released the first-ever responsive White House homepage. Here's what that means: The WhiteHouse.gov landing page now displays content in a consistent way, no matter which device you're using — desktop, laptop, mobile phone, or tablet. This also means that we're helping you find the most relevant content as quickly as possible."
Hannibal Buress is about halfway through his second set of the night in Denver when he turns to his DJ, who is sitting a couple of feet behind him, fiddling with his turntables. "Hey Tony," he says with a subtle wince, "play some music." And then he walks offstage. Nobody is expecting this, least of all Tony.
Just a couple people enjoying the Colonel's herbs and spices. Same old KFC.
I’ve reviewed a lot of videogames. This was the first time I’d ever had a developer write back to ask if they should make a major change to the gameplay that would impact players’ experiences.
How a crew of hard-partying Florida teens cashed in on an epidemic and built a multimillion-dollar OxyContin smuggling ring.
After endless #truedetectiveseason2 jokes, the actual second season of the HBO hit is on its way. And it has Colin Farrel in a mustache and a bolo tie.
The megahit "Furious 7" features cars parachuting into the mountains of Azerbaijan, an ambulance knocking a predator drone out of the sky, and a car flying from one Abu Dhabi skyscraper to the other.
The modern version of the toy is practically unrecognizable.
Laura Poitras’ name was once on terror watch lists. Now it’s on an Oscar. Here’s her personal journey.
The new 12-inch MacBook is here in all its glory and we’ve gathered the best reviews from around the web for you. Is this the laptop of the future? Read on to find out!
Condemned as a capitalist tool, the computer would help expose the USSR’s weakness.
Sharks are incredibly unlikely to bite you. They’re even less likely to kill you. However, we remain fascinated with their ability — and occasional proclivity — to do just that. With so many things more likely to harm us, why do we pay such rapt attention when sharks make headlines?
Not only can you bend it and have it still work, you can also put a hole right through the middle of it and it won't catch fire like its lithium-ion counterparts.
This week on the "Reply All" podcast, we try to answer a question that seems simple but ends up being very, very, complicated: What is the formula for Internet dog fame?