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Threat Level extends its warmest welcome to hacker Gary McKinnon, who just lost his extradition appeal to the U.K.’s highest court and will soon be pressing his search for extraterrestrial life from the confines of a U.S. detention facility. Federal prosecutors in New Jersey and Virginia have been trying to extradite the 42-year-old Londoner for […]
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MIT mathematicians have learned more about how insects breathe underwater by trapping a layer of air around their bodies. The scientists determined that insects can dive as deep as 30 meters without the bubbles bursting. (Seen here, a Notonecta covered with a respiratory bubble.) From MIT News Office: The air bubble’s stability is maintained by […]