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Cartoonishly tiny arms? Check. Massive, bone-crunching jaws? Huge check. How about bloodthirsty cannibalistic impulses? For certain enormous Tyrannosaurs dinosaurs—including T. rex—apparently that’s a big check, too.A pair of paleontologists has just announced the results of a fascinating forensic report on a badly thrashed Tyrannosaur fossil—it comes from one of T. rex’s marginally smaller cousins, Daspletosaurus. According to Dave Hone at the University of London, who led the investigation, team discovered not only healed wounds from vicious face-to-face, intra-species fights for dominance, but also the evidence of opportunistic cannibalism to boot....

Media Platforms Design TeamA new advance by Hewlett Packard researchers, , could put 3D video in the palm of your hand within the next few years. The new tech is an autostereoscopic multiview 3D display. In English, that’s glasses-free 3D imaging you can see from any angle.announced this week in NatureThree-dimensional viewing works by making each eye see an image from a slightly different perspective, as we do when viewing real-life objects....

Media Platforms Design TeamSteven Rattner, a key member of The White House task force that guided the bankruptcy reorganizations of General Motors and Chrysler, ought to be a hero in Michigan, especially during the week GM plans to issue stock in the newly constituted company. But he doesn’t feel that way.Rattner, author of Overhaul: An Insider’s Account of the Obama Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010), spoke Nov....

Heineken has stuffed a lot of claims into its plucky little 5-liter DraughtKeg. It’s the first true draft minikeg, meaning that instead of working a pump between pours or flipping open a gravity tap near the bottom of the keg, you simply pull the lever on the top-mounted tap, and out comes Heineken. Each keg comes with an internal C02 compressor, which pushes the beer up the line and prevents the contents of the keg from coming into direct contact with the air....

Some three-letter airport codes are obvious abbreviations for their cities, like OMA for Omaha. Others, not so much. To explain some of the stranger ones, Gizmodo compiled the stories into a collection called Airport Codes.For example, what’s with the “X” in Portland’s PDX? It’s because in the 1930s, two-letter codes became three as a standard, so PD and LA became PDX and LAX. (If you’ve been to LAX, you know it’s far from lax....

Every day at lunch, geologist Nick Zahn grabs his MacBook Air and heads to the cafeteria at the Maryland Department of the Environment, where he connects to the building’s Wi-Fi and logs in to the website for Waze, the hugely popular smartphone navigation app that relies on crowdsourced data. Once in, Zahn accesses the Waze Map Editor, which allows him and other editors to make updates and changes to the map that tens of millions of drivers across the globe use on a daily basis....

Media Platforms Design TeamLOS ANGELES — When professional driver Josef Newgarden climbed into a Honda IndyCar parked in the valet line outside the Cathedral of St. Vibiana, it was clear that something special was in the works for this game reveal. And the burnout that ensued was just a warmup to the major announcement of the night: IndyCar is coming to Forza 5.Forza Motorsport 5, coming to the Xbox One, will be the first in the franchise to feature Formula One cars, including the 1976 McLaren M23 and the 1976 Ferrari 312-2 cars driven by Niki Lauda and James Hunt, respectively, during the 1976 F1 Season....

Media Platforms Design TeamIt’s every small-airplane passenger’s worst nightmare: You’re cruising over the clouds when the pilot suddenly clutches his chest and slumps forward, unconscious. Now what? Software entrepreneur and pilot Austin Meyer, creator of the X-Plane flight simulator, thinks he has the answer. He’s written an iPad app, EFIS-App, that automatically finds a nearby airport and instructs the flight control computer to glide in for a safe landing. For now, the program only works with an iPad wirelessly linked to X-Plane....

One of the world’s best universities has a job for the one of the world’s biggest LEGO fans. The Telegraph reports that the University of Cambridge in the U.K. is planning to hire a professor of all things LEGO.Technically, the position won’t be Professor of LEGO, which is disappointing. Rather, the title will be the LEGO Professorship of Play in Education, Development, and Learning, and the lucky job-holder will run a research center on that very subject....

The spring and summer are on their way in the United States. Down in Antarctica, though, things are about to get dark, which makes it the perfect place to simulate living in space (even better than Russia.)To mimic the effects of living in deep space on human psychology, a group of researchers sponsored by the European Space Agency are headed to the Halley Research Station in Antarctica, one of the coldest, darkest places on Earth....

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – This was not your average shop class. For one, it elicited an extreme level of dedication. The dozen or so students clustered in a room at George Westinghouse High School had been here every night for weeks–and most weekends–until 10:30 p.m. Then there’s the little matter of what they were building: not exactly bird feeders. On the concrete floor sat a half-assembled robot, a yellow metal frame supporting a battery, motors and a tangle of wires....

Media Platforms Design TeamOn-Sale Date: Early 2014Base Price: $26,820Competitors: Chevrolet Traverse, Ford Escape, Honda CR-V, Mazda CX-5, Nissan Rogue, Toyota RAV4Powertrains: 2.0-liter H-4, 148 hp, 145 lb-ft; electric motor, 13.4 hp, 48 lb-ft; combined system output 160 hp, 163 lb-ft; CVT; AWDEPA Fuel Economy (city/hwy): 29/33The XV Crosstrek has been a great success for Subaru since its introduction last year. With sales of around 50,000 units per year, it’s a fixture in the brand’s lineup....

Can you crowdfund your way to the moon? Kristian von Bengtson and Chris Larmour, the co-founders of Moonspike, want to send a privately built rocket to the Moon and land an impactor in the surface. And they want to get the project off the ground by soliciting $1 million through a Kickstarter campaign that kicked off this morning. The plan is audacious. Within a decade, von Bengston and a team will build a rocket and a small impactor, select a launch, and send it to the moon....

The buzz around Debunking 9/11 Myths is heating up around the Web. Let’s see what people are saying. Austin Bay has reviewed Debunking 9/11 Myths, calling it “a handy antidote to the conspiracy theorists’ more noxious rhetorical poisons”: “Book editors David Dunbar and Brad Reagan laud former Sen. Pat Moynihan’s classic quip: ‘Everyone is entitled to his own opinion. He is not entitled to his own facts.’ … With Moynihan as a guide, the book follows a “Claim” and “Fact” format....

Across this country, the people of the prepper movement are building shelters, stocking up on non-perishable food, and otherwise preparing for a major disaster. But you don’t need to be paranoid to be ready. Here’s what preppers do, and what you should be doing:CommunicationPrepper: Establish a dead drop—a secret place to deposit and retrieve messages when communications go down. Tell only trusted confidants about this place.Casual survivalist: Get your ham-radio license....

During a recent visit to the Seattle’s Museum of Flight, I saw a replica of the first manmade object to punch beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. One visitor, who was old enough to remember the shock of that first satellite called Sputnik, recalled how in the nights following October 4, 1957, he and his classmates peered into the sky and saw the first artificial moon in orbitBut according to most experts, he didn’t see Sputnik at all....

Fan theories are some of the best (and worst) parts of fan culture. Just witness the Star Trek musings in the Daystrom Institute on Reddit, where mind blowing revelations and cringe inducing posits meet in an arena of obsessive discourse. But in another galaxy of Reddit fandom lives one of the most insidious, genius, and frustrating fan theories ever posited, one that upends what we thought we knew of the Star Wars prequels we pretended we forgot: Palpatine wasn’t the puppet master....

The cloud is home to an endless supply of entertainment, guidance and information. In other words, just the sorts of things you want when you’re driving your car.Toyota’s latest approach to tapping into this smorgasbord of data, announced at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is to piggyback onto your phone. The carmaker’s new Entune multimedia system uses a phone’s data connection as a way to connect your car to the cloud....

In 2005, the nuclear attack submarine USS San Francisco suddenly stopped dead in its tracks. The ship’s crew were thrown about, some over distances of 20 feet, and the majority of the 137-member crew suffered one injury or another—including one that would later prove fatal. Further inspection would explain what happened, and reveal that the submarine’s bow looked like a crushed soda can. USS San Francisco had run into an undersea mountain....

Media Platforms Design TeamI have a ‘96 Nissan Pathfinder and my gauge cluster has started to go on the fritz. It’ll randomly cut in and out while I’m driving, with the gauges going from proper operation to flat needles and no light. I’ve checked all the fuses, but everything looks okay. Have any ideas?That’s not a defect; it’s a featureinterior strobe lighting! Seriously, though, if the fuses are fine, there are two paths to investigate and neither is much fun....