A trailblazer on and off the bike, from record-breaking tricks and X Games medals, to namesake video games and mainstream brand partners.BMX star, rally car driver, and former MTV Real World/Road Rules Challenge host Dave Mirra died yesterday at the age of 41, from a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound. Soon after the news, fellow athletes, artists and celebrities remembered his influence on the sport and culture.Read Full Story

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These 'banger' cars have one goal - and that's to smash you off the track. The post To Win at Banger Racing, You’ve Gotta Crash—Hard appeared first on WIRED.

The country's government is asking donors to wait 30 days after infection to donate, but many patients are asymptomatic -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

In response to mounting pressure from the government, Twitter is cracking down on terrorists who use the platform to troll for support.For the first time, Twitter is revealing just how seriously it takes the issue of groups like ISIS using its platform to promote terrorism. In a blog post on Friday, the company announced that, since mid-2015, it has shuttered 125,000 accounts—many of which are associated with ISIS—that encourage acts of terrorism.Read Full Story

NASA's Solar System Dynamics Group stands between us and flaming death by asteroid. The post NASA’s Front-Line Defense Against Killer Rocks From Space appeared first on WIRED.

The gene-editing technology known as CRISPR has spawned an increasingly unseemly brawl over who will reap the rewards -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com