List of Science and Technology articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Solar-Powered Plane Flies Over the Pacific in Potentially Record-Breaking Flight
If Swiss pilot André Borschberg makes it, the trip will be both the longest distance a solar-powered aircraft has ever flown and the longest time a pilot has ever spent in the air on a solo flight.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Behold the Glorious New Gateway to North Korea
Kim Jong-un's new airport is "absolute perfection."
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 New Findings Pinpoint Africa’s Elephant Poaching Hotspots
Elephant poaching in Africa, driven by the illegal ivory trade, has reached its highest level in decades, threatening some populations with extinction. But recent findings published in the journal Science suggest a new way forward for conservationists, law enforcement, and policymakers: the use of genetic science to pinpoint the illegal trade at its points of origin.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Watch the Navy’s New Launch System Sling an 8,000 Pound Sled Like a Pebble
Watch the Navy sling a four ton sled off the deck of an aircraft carrier.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 You Don’t Have to Watch ‘Jurassic World’ to See Bioengineered Animal Weapons
This summer's sci-fi blockbuster imagines a world where scientists genetically engineer animals for war. It's already here.
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY People attend a mass of the Assembly of God church, in Goiania, Goias State, Brazil, on May 19, 2013. The election of evangelical minister Marco Feliciano as president of the House of Deputies' commission of human rights and minorities, is seen as a sign of the growing influence of evangelicals in Congress, where they have 67 deputies ot of a total 513, and in Brazilian politics in general. Evangelicals count 565 million adherents and represent more than one-fourth of the world's Christians, according to French researcher Sebastien Fath. AFP PHOTO / Evaristo SA (Photo credit should read EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can You Use Big Data to Track an Elephant Poacher?
Why looking at a map of news headlines could help us see critical patterns and trends in wildlife crime.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Gold, Skype-Equipped Shipping Container Being Used to Connect America With Iran
A gold-gilded shipping container, currently stationed in Washington, D.C.’s Woodrow Wilson Plaza, provides 20-minute video links to the Iranian capital of Tehran; Herat, Afghanistan; and Havana, Cuba.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 You’ll Never Guess Which Country Is Trying to Get Good at Hockey
In an effort to strengthen its 2022 Winter Olympic bid, China is trying to get good at hockey.
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457979644 cropped Why Technology Hasn’t Delivered More Democracy
New technologies offer important tools for empowerment — yet democracy is stagnating. What’s up?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Chinese Netizens to Fiorina: You’re Right, We Don’t Innovate
Many in China have been complaining about their education system for years.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Know Thy Enemy, and the Future of Memorial Day
How will warfare change when we know our foes by name, face, and DNA?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 There’s a Satellite Orbiting the Earth Named After Skrillex’s Dog
The Grammy-winning DJ partnered with Google to send a satellite into space.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Dr. Strange-oil
Four slightly insane -- but not entirely unrealistic -- ways that Vladimir Putin could spike the price of oil to save Russia's economy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Innovations: Are Potholes a Thing of the Past?
How a group of scientists and engineers turned to the human immune system to revolutionize road repair.
