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For almost twenty years, a specter has been haunting France: flatworms. After years ofd scattered claims, scientists have confirmed that the nation is indeed infested with hammerhead flatworms and has been for nearly two decades. Upon receiving a photo of one such worm from an amateur naturalist, Jean-Lou Justin of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris thought somebody was playing a prank on him. He knew that the genera Bipalium and Diversibipalium, colloquially known as hammerhead flatworms, are natural to the warmer parts of Asia....

A group of paleontologists studying a region called “Australia’s Jurassic Park” have uncovered dinosaur tracks from nearly two dozen different dinosaur species, including some of the largest dinosaur footprints ever discovered.The Walmadany region is often called “Australia’s Jurassic Park” for good reason. During the early Cretaceous period, it held some of the highest dinosaur diversity on the planet. Dozens of different dinosaur species once called this region home, and now paleontologists have the fossils to prove it....

You can now glimpse some Stunning images are now available after yesterday’s solar eclipse which had a path of totality that darkened the skies over parts of Chile and Argentina.Anadolu Agency//Getty ImagesThe solar eclipse darkened La Serana, a Chilean city about 310-miles north of Santiago on July 02, 2019.Anadolu Agency//Getty ImagesMore on EclipsesHow to Photograph a Total Solar EclipseThe Cosmic Weirdness of Solar Eclipse TotalityYou can see the Sun’s corona peeking out from behind the moon....

Media Platforms Design Team Sony’s been OLED-screen crazy since the company introduced the world’s first OLED television at last year’s CES, but that product never seemed like much more than a novelty—come on, how many people really want a $2500 11-in. diagonal TV? But the company’s new Walkman puts an OLED screen somewhere that makes sense—as a 3-in. display on a portable device where the OLED’s power efficiency and brightness will really make a difference....

Media Platforms Design TeamMovies often employ visual effects to take on what’s too dangerous or too expensive to be done for real—or what literally be done for real. For , out July 17, that meant making magic, a tall order for the film’s VFX artists. “In any movie, the visual effects have to deliver something,” says VFX supervisor John Nelson. “In , we had to sell the size of Rome. When I did , we had to believe a person could fly....

For decades, meteorologists have known that warmer average ocean temperatures cause more powerful hurricanes and cyclones. And warmer seas lie in our future: The Earth’s oceans, like a giant heat-sink, soak up 90 percent of the extra heat caused by global warming. But exactly how much more dangerous we should expect these natural disasters to become in the coming decades has been largely a guessing game, says Wei Mei, a cyclone researcher at the University of California, San Diego....

1908 Thomas FlyerMedia Platforms Design TeamOne of the largest-scale automotive competitions in history, the Great Race covered 22,000 miles from New York City to Paris, in 1908. George Schuster emerged victorious at the helm of this Thomas Flyer, on display at the 2008 Pebble Beach Concours as part of the centennial celebration of this epic competition. The car is now in the National Automobile Museum Harrah Collection in Reno, Nev.1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III Freestone & Webb SedancaMedia Platforms Design TeamThere are usually plenty of Rolls-Royces to ogle at Pebble Beach, but this custom 1937 model deserves special notice for its gaudy hide....

On Monday, news broke that a semi-autonomous car operated by Uber fatally struck a pedestrian in the town of Tempe, Arizona. This marks the first known instance of a death due to a self-driving car in the U.S, which makes this case pretty monumental for the future of the tech.But this isn’t just about a car and a pedestrian, it’s also a matter of urban infrastructure, particularly how willingly we tend to prioritize multi-lane highways for cars over crosswalks for pedestrians....

Blue Origin is performing a high-altitude abort test today and streaming it live at 11 AM ET. Similar to previous tests, the exercise will simulate an emergency maneuver where the New Shepard’s crew capsule will engage rockets to provide 70,000 pounds of force to push it away from the main booster as quickly as possible midflight. This test, however, will occur at a higher altitude and “[push] the rocket to its limits” according to Blue Origin....

A new study claims that Amelia Earhart’s bones were found on Nikumaroro Island in the South Pacific.Richard Jantz, a professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, says previous research identifying the bones as male was “inadequate.”The research supports the theory that she died as a castaway.Ever since her plane disappeared on her flight around the world in 1937, researchers and conspiracy theorists alike have debated what happened to Amelia Earhart....

Media Platforms Design TeamPhoto by Mario Tama/Getty Images.Security cameras will likely hold the key to unraveling the bomb attacks in Boston, experts say. Often lambasted as failing to deter crime, security cameras certainly come in handy during the investigation. Video of the explosion can help investigators determine the location of the devices, and even hold clues to what explosives were inside them. (White smoke usually indicates improvised explosives, black smoke for professional grade explosives like TNT and C4....

The tire of the future is a ball. An unbelievably sophisticated, nature-inspired, magnetic-levitation-infused ball. Goodyear just revealed its vision for a concept tire that’s intended for the self-driving car of tomorrow. It’s called Eagle-360, and it’s totally round. Why put a car on a quartet of glorified mouse trackballs? Goodyear says the 3D-printed tires will have a larger contact patch with the ground, allowing for more control. The design lets the tires hurl water away via centrifugal force....

A push alert that warned of a ballistic missile heading straight for Hawaii and sent residents into a full-blown panic Saturday was issued by mistake, state emergency officials said.The emergency alert, which was sent to cellphones just before 8:10 a.m., said in all caps, “Ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill.” The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency tweeted that there was no threat about 10 minutes later....

This past weekend China escalated tensions in the East China Sea by unilaterally establishing what it calls an Air Defense Identification Zone that includes islands claimed by other nations. China released a map and coordinates of this zone, demanding that any aircraft report to China before entering the airspace, declaring that its armed forces “will adopt defensive emergency measures to respond to aircraft that do not cooperate in the identification or refuse to follow the instructions....

Media Platforms Design TeamQuirky, a company that rapidly develops and markets products invented by an online community of tinkerers and visionaries, held its 262nd weekly idea evaluation last night. This time they invited me to join as a juror. The job entails sitting on a panel with high-energy, brilliant Quirky staffers while the crowd votes whether to take invention submissions into the next design and prototyping stage. If the room deadlocks, online participants vote....

Seattle is already home to one of the world’s largest floating bridges. Now Sound Transit is taking on another challenge: building steel tracks for trains on a bridge that floats and moves to the whims of the water and wind. The city is now moving forward on a multi-billion-dollar project to extend light rail from Seattle to Bellevue across the Interstate 90 floating bridge on Lake Washington. Related Stories7 of the Coolest Bridges in the United StatesHow to Build the World’s Longest Floating BridgeA team that included engineers from Sound Transit, the University of Washington, and independent experts spent years working on the engineering challenges, according to John Sleavin, Sound Transit executive technical advisor and lead engineer on the project....

One day your engine starts to rumble a little more than usual. Or was that just a passing airliner? Over the next few weeks the sound becomes a steady drone – and then you notice a faint smell of exhaust lingering inside your car.Even minor leaks in the exhaust system need to be addressed right away – before the kids start nodding off, mid-video game, in the back seat. Although safety is the biggest issue, it’s not the only one....

Remember how mind-blowing it was the first time you booted up MS Paint and scribbled some garbled mess of colors in there? Microsoft Research has managed to recreate the magic in a whole new way by making your living room the canvas, instead of a white patch on your screen. Named SemanticPaint, tech works by using a depth camera (like the Xbox One’s Kinect) to scan in a 3D “picture” of the room, and then using a tablet or heads-up display (like Microsoft’s Hololens) to show the painter the recolored version of the room they’re in....

The dark surface of the Pacific spreads calmly beneath the derrick of the JOIDES Resolution. On the brightly lit rig deck, the night shift is hard at work. Twelve thrusters maintain position over the Cascadia Continental Margin, 40 miles west of Vancouver Island, while the crew snakes a string of drill pipe through the ship’s “moon pool” until it hits the seafloor more than a mile below. When they haul up the core barrel, it contains 31 ft....

A new “diversionary device” is a total redesign of the traditional flashbang stun grenade. Designed to stun and disorient, the Enhanced Diversionary device is computer-controlled, safer, and more effective than traditional flashbangs. “Flashbang” grenades became popular in the 1970s, as a result of a sharp increase in aircraft hijackings and other terrorist incidents. Flashbangs were designed to look and feel like regular fragmentation hand grenades but produce a bright flash and thunderous noise, stunning anyone within effective range....