Science & Technology

The iPhone X’s face unlock and the fifth amendment don’t mix 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 16, 2017
The new iPhone X is shining a light on a Fifth Amendment debate.

By David Aragorn
Robot made from a DNA strand could deliver cargo in your blood 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 16, 2017
You won’t read about a smaller robot than this one any time soon.

By David Aragorn
Time Crystals Are (Not) Interesting 0
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- September 14, 2017
Scientists created a state of matter known as a time crystal, which seems to suspend the law of conservation of energy.

By David Aragorn
A stroke took away this neuroscientist’s sense of past and future 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 14, 2017
Jill Bolte Taylor recalls all the things she forgot.

By David Aragorn
Researchers just figured out how to get robots to join forces 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 13, 2017
We’re so close to the megazord of our dreams.

By David Aragorn
High-tech electronics made from autumn leaves 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 13, 2017
Northern China’s roadsides are peppered with deciduous phoenix trees, producing an abundance of fallen leaves in autumn. These leaves are generally burned in the colder season, exacerbating the country’s air pollution problem. Investigators in Shandong, China, recently discovered a new method to convert this organic waste matter into a porous carbon material that can be used to produce high-tech electronics.

By David Aragorn
Newly Discovered Spatial Geometry Found In Our Brains 0
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- September 12, 2017
For the average human, it is difficult at times to envision the Universe as a construct in 4-dimensions. Now a new study has discovered structures in the brain with up to eleven dimensions.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Think Cockroach Milk Could Be The Superfood of The Future 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 9, 2017
Move over kale.

By David Aragorn
Natural Selection is Still Happening in Modern Human Populations, Major Genetic Study Finds 0
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- September 9, 2017
Genetic variants linked to Alzheimer’s disease and heavy smoking are less frequent in people with longer lifespans, suggesting that natural selection is weeding out these unfavorable variants in some populations, according to an analysis of the genomes of 210,000 people in the U.S. and UK.

By David Aragorn
‘Vampires’ May Have Been Real People with Erythropoietic Protoporphyria, Researchers Say 0
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- September 8, 2017
An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Barry Paw of the Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, has identified a genetic mutation that may be responsible for ‘vampire’ folklore. The research appears this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

By David Aragorn