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CERN points giant magnet at the Sun to look for dark matter particles 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 11, 2017
Axions don’t show up yet, but that doesn’t mean they’re not out there.

By David Aragorn
New technology generates power from polluted air 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 10, 2017
Researchers from the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, have succeeded in developing a process that purifies air and, at the same time, generates power. The device must only be exposed to light in order to function.

By David Aragorn
NASA Team Pursues Blobs and Bubbles with New PetitSat Mission 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 10, 2017
Figuring out how plasma bubbles and blobs affect one another and ultimately the transmission of communications, GPS, and radar signals in Earth’s ionosphere will be the job of a recently selected CubeSat mission.

By David Aragorn
Vector successfully launches its micro-satellite with a 3D-printed part 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 9, 2017
More tests are on the horizon

By David Aragorn
Made In Space reveals the Archinaut, a robot-operated factory in the sky 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 9, 2017
Made In Space, Inc. is known as the company behind the 3D printers on board the International Space Station. Astronauts have used the startup’s AMF, or Additive Manufacturing Facility, on the ISS to churn out everything from finger splints to tools, sculptures and even other printer parts.

By David Aragorn
Genetically modified algae could soon show up in food, fuel, and pharmaceuticals 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 4, 2017
Researchers created souped-up algae that can thrive outdoors

By David Aragorn
A “World First” Fusion Reactor Just Created Its First Plasma 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 4, 2017
Tokamak Energy’s fusion reactor has achieved first plasma and is on track to produce temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit) by 2018.

By David Aragorn
Neuroscientists Discover a Song That Reduces Anxiety By 65 Percent 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 3, 2017
Anxiety — that feeling of dread, fear, worry and panic — is certainly nothing new. Hippocrates wrote about it in the fourth century BCE. As did Søren Kierkegaard in the 1860s. And Sigmund Freud addressed the disorder in 1926.

However, jump to the present and we’re seeing a significant uptick — especially with youth.

By David Aragorn
This plastic-eating caterpillar can help us get rid of our trash 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 2, 2017
Plastic bags need hundreds of years to biodegrade, but wax worms break them down in no time.

By David Aragorn
Artificial womb for premature babies successful in animal trials 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 29, 2017
Lambs born at equivalent of 23 weeks human gestation kept alive and developing in advance could transform outlook for very premature babies

By David Aragorn