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Byline: Erik Baard Flotsam tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda15tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda15 Weekend swabbies readied themselves to swarm New York Harbor on Sunday, July 19th, for TrumpStock NY, a floating political [...]

Byline: Erik Baard The Glove Challenge tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda15 Barehanded on a Citi Bike, Ryan McKenzie, the owner of a NoMad bar called Patent Pending, rolled through his hushed [...]

For the past few weeks, forty-six cardboard boxes sat moldering on the waterfront in Long Island City, not far from where workers were reassembling the seventy-two-year-old neon Pepsi sign. The [...]

In 1783, to mark his retirement from the Continental Army, George Washington held a farewell dinner at the Fraunces Tavern, on Pearl Street. Earlier in the war, a crew including [...]

As architects create increasingly organic shapes, perhaps it's natural that the construction material of the future may be a new form of the most fundamental building block of life: carbon, [...]

The Germans seem to have a knack for making old things new again. First they revamped the VW Beetle, and now they're re-imagining another icon from decades past: the nuclear […]

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UNEXPECTED A recent study led by the New York Academy of Sciences on mercury in New York's harbor indicates that the amount of contamination [...]

Corporate behemoths dominate aerospace, but a group in St. Louis is invoking the spirit of Charles Lindbergh to encourage innovators and entrepreneurs to join the space race. The X Prize […]

Survivors of combat often find they can't step down from the adrenaline rush. So, after taking on the Justice Department's trustbusters, who could blame former Microsoft exec Eric Engstrom for […]

The wireless revolution is coming to a cell phone or PDA near you--or maybe it's already there. Here's the skinny on what you can get today-- and a preview of […]

A tiny bird fossil with unusually well-preserved feathers was recently unearthed in Wyoming. The find is helping scientists understand how specialized wings evolved The 52-million-year-old species, named Eocypselus rowei, is [...]

Erik Sprague of Austin, Texas, is slowly transforming himself to look like a lizard. The performance artist has had his tongue sliced down the middle so it is forked, gotten [...]

What would it be like to play Jeopardy! against an opponent that can scan through a million books per second? Two of the game show's best players recently found out [...]

With a roar that could be heard 80 kilometers (50 miles) away, a Delta IV Heavy rocket recently launched into the sky from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The [...]

The space community hunts for life in our solar system, both by robotic probes and telescopic surveys, to find potential abodes for life around other stars. As per NASA's astrobiology, planets are road map for finding signs of extraterrestrial life.

This section offers science news briefs including efforts by Russian scientists to drill by the 3,700-meter-think ice sheet at Lake Vostok in Antartica to reveal the subglacial lake, a water treatment facility in St. Petersburg, Russia has been using snails to assess the impact of air pollution from burnt sewage garbage to humans and the Italian School of Water Rescue Dogs has trained lifedogs from their swimming breeds like Labradors and Newfoundlands for beach rescue.

This section offers news briefs related to science, including the effects of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil-drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico a year after, the move by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to require manufacturers that use a food dye made from crushed cochineal beetles to say so on their products' packaging, as well as attempts by Japanese biologist Akira Iritani and his team to clone a cell a preserved mammoth found frozen on ice to bring the Ice Age beasts back to life.

The article discusses about on November 8, 2018, a power line started a small fire in Northern California, and fire blazed into a massive wildfire that become known as the Camp Fire.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "The Haiti Haters," by Amy Wilentz in the February 8, 2010 issue, the unsigned editorial "Democracy Inc.," in the February 15, 2010 issue and "System Failure," by Christopher Hayes in the February 1, 2010 issue.

"Anything you can do toprevent climate change helps", saysBenjamin Cook, a climate scientist. Here are the statesthat had the most wildfires in 2018.TEXAS * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * *CALIFORNIA * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * *NORTH CAROLINA * * * * * * *GEORGIA * * * * *FLORIDA * * * * 1/2OREGON * * * *ARIZONA * * * *WASHINGTON * * * 1/2KEY* = 500 WILDFIRESSource: National Interagency Fire Center Between 1992 and 2012, therewere 245,446 wildfires causedby lightning and 1,272,076wildfires caused by humans. [Extracted from the article]