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If a baseball pitcher threw a 90-mph fastball at you, chances are you’d see nothing, but to a trained professional, each swirling pattern of red and white means something vastly different. To …
Like many museums, arenas and other public venues around the world, US music festivals Coachella and Lollapalooza have both banned selfie sticks from their premises. Lollapalooza’s website states that no “GoPro attachments …
IKEA is providing the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees with 10,000 flat-pack Better Shelters as part of an ongoing collaboration through its Housing for All Foundation. After initially being tested by …
Though it may not seem like it, the Earth’s soil is a precious and magical material that we all depend on to sustain human life, yet we still treat it like, well, …
Night vision eyedrops are now a real thing thanks to Science for the Masses, an independent biomedical research lab in California. After speculating that Chlorin e6—a chemical that naturally forms in algae …
Archaeologists have discovered a massive boneyard of prehistoric super-salamanders in Algarve, Portugal. While the bones from these enormous amphibians are in fact quite common, the newly found fossils are different enough to …
A few weeks ago, Mic ran a survey asking Americans who their least favorite musical act was, giving them just a blank box to fill out with no pre-selected options. The results …
A group of scientists in Iceland have successfully sequenced the full DNA of over 2,600 Icelandic citizens. Using this information, they were then able to infer the genomes of more than 100,000 …
British designer Paul Smith has teamed up with Land Rover to create a one-of-a-kind Defender as production of the iconic car enters its final months. Smith reimagines the 4×4 vehicle with rich …
During the disco craze of the ‘70s, photographer Hasse Persson spent many of his nights capturing the debauchery taking place at NYC hotspot Studio 54—a nightclub whose guest list regularly included Andy …