california World's oldest lightbulb: 123 years and still glowing Natalie Dressed

documentary A short documentary from 1968 shows first computer animation of people Mark Frauenfelder

nuclear energy Scientists report net gain nuclear fusion reaction Mark Frauenfelder

road trips Go down the road-trip rabbit hole with 'Make My Drive Fun' Rusty Blazenhoff

accidents Plane crashes into car during emergency landing in California Carla Sinclair

books A profile of Cliff "Cuckoo's Egg" Stoll, a pioneering "hacker hunter" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Chasing down that list of potential Predpol customers reveals dozens of cities that have secretly experimented with "predictive policing" Cory Doctorow

surveillance Is this the full list of US cities that have bought or considered Predpol's predictive policing services? Cory Doctorow

videos Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory releases 62 declassified videos of nuclear weapons tests Cory Doctorow

explosions Nuclear explosion porn: watch newly declassified 1950s-1960s nuke test films David Pescovitz

servers Server running without unplanned downtime since 1993 Rob Beschizza

chemistry Livermorium – the smelliest element Mark Frauenfelder

Science In updated Periodic Table, some new elements may be named for Japan, Moscow, Tennessee Xeni Jardin

Science Petition to name a new element in Terry Pratchett's honour Cory Doctorow