Image: Photo: Shutterstock Graphics: Vicky Leta Renowned puzzler Peter Winkler invented the addictive word game, HIPE, with some friends when they were juniors in high school. While it may not have become the overnight success of Wordle, the game did earn Winkler admission to Harvard. According to his book, Mathematical Mind-Benders, he wrote a college … Read more
A combination of AI, a wild 1970s plan to build underwater cities, and a designer creating furniture on the seabed around the Bahamas might be the solution to the widespread destruction of coral reefs. It could even save the world from coastal erosion. Industrial designer Tom Dixon and technologist Suhair Khan, founder of AI incubator … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave SEOUL — North Korea on Friday claimed to have conducted a test of an “underwater nuclear weapons system,” a claim that would dramatically escalate concerns that Kim Jong Un is girding for war. The official Korean Central News Agency on Friday reported that the test was carried … Read more
Filmmakers shooting footage of invasive mussels in Lake Huron found a shipwreck from 1895. The “Africa” had been carrying coal from Ohio to Ontario, and was carrying 11 sailors. The wreck is covered in invasive quagga mussels that are altering the Great Lakes’ ecosystem. A pair of filmmakers who spent two years shooting footage for a … Read more
Choosing the right action camera used to be simple: Go with GoPro. That’s still good advice, in that the GoPro ranks high on our list and is our top pick for most adventure-seeking photographers, but we’ve finally found a few worthy competitors. To figure out which cameras are the best, we dove with them, climbed … Read more
Water levels are so low at Canyon Lake in Texas that an underwater cave and remnants of communities that stood more than a century ago at the site are reappearing. The lake, located in Comal County just northeast of San Antonio, is a man-made lake spanning 8,200 acres with 80 miles of shoreline. It was … Read more