Annalee Newitz
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Some Intriguing New Hints About What Ant Consciousness Is Really Like
They build cities. They farm. They make war. Ants do a lot of things that seem uncannily human — and yet they’re profoundly alien, part of a hive mind called a social organism. What does that feel like to each individual ant? Now a new scientific paper suggests that there is always doubt in the…
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North America Was Once Full Of Super-Tiny Beavers And Super-Giant Ones
When humans first arrived in North America about 15,000 years ago, the place was full of giant beavers. No, I’m serious. They were huge, with enormous teeth. And now scientists have discovered the place was crawling with mini beavers too.
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Now Google Street View Can Take You Deep Under The Oceans
To celebrate World Oceans Day on June 8, Google has released a bunch of gorgeous new images of ocean life as part of its Street View feature in Maps. Now you can contemplate what it means, metaphorically, when your mapping app suggests that oceans are just as important as cities.
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How Android Is Becoming The New Windows
It’s more nuanced than you think. Last week at Google I/O, /”connected devices” or the internet of things. He imagined a world of hardware devices that do everything from monitor traffic to track your heartbeat, all brought together by Google’s prize operating system.