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More than 3,000 people in Pakistan have been killed by drone strikes. Were they enemies? That's where it gets tricky.

Without global coverage, weather (and climate) prediction models will get things wrong.

White parents are more likely to think their daughters don't need the vaccine.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will incorporate the Deepsea Challenger's technology into existing submersibles and new vehicles. Also: Check out these awesome drawings of the sub!

Activity in one very particular part of the brain shows a high correlation with recidivism.

Keeping an eye on the Big Apple from above

Since the beginning of the month, officials have fished out 16,000 pig carcasses found in the river that serves tap water to Shanghai. Is it really still safe to drink, as officials say?

Giving subjects lots of ways to gamble turns them into risk-takers.

Boozey goodness broken down by type, flavor, and, of course, alcohol by volume.

Hook Theory mined data to see how chords are used, then mapped them.

New data seems to suggest that one did.

NeuroSpire, with Jake Stauch at the helm, has developed software that lets companies scan brains to deliver better ads--and do it on the cheap.

Stevens, The National's Bryce Dessner, and composer Nico Muhly--plus a massive suspended orb--perform a solar-system-inspired sequence at BAM.

A study comparing mood-related words in U.S. and British books shows that Americans increasingly use emotional words more often.

Dial in the resistor you need and avoid digging through messy electronics bins.

The Triassic die-off is one of 5 mass extinctions on Earth in the past 542 million years.

And why their reasoning is not all that surprising

A future full of spy drones sounds pretty scary. Except it’s already here.

Hop in and let the Ropits chauffeur you. (But just you.)