Science & Technology

Scientists work out way to make Mars surface fit for farming 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- July 15, 2019
Aerogel sheet mimics Earth’s greenhouse effect and could help to create fertile oases

By David Aragorn
Neuralink: Elon Musk’s Neurotech Venture Is Finally Giving an Update via Live-Stream 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 13, 2019
On July 16, Musk’s AI company Neuralink will have its first big reveal via a live event that will be streamed online.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Resuscitate 41,000-Year-Old Worm, 1,500-Year-Old Moss 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 11, 2019
Scientists are uncovering, thawing and resuscitating various life forms, some of which are older than modern human civilization, as glaciers recede.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Just Got One Step Closer to Solving an Antarctic Mystery 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 9, 2019
Giant holes in the Antarctic, called polynyas, have baffled scientists for years. But now with the help of seals and robots, they might have the answers to these mysterious phenomena.

By David Aragorn
The Holographic Universe Explained 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- July 6, 2019
We live in a universe with 3 dimensions of space and one of time. Up, down, left, right, forward, back, past, future. 3+1 dimensions. Or so our primitive Pleistocene-evolved brains find it useful to believe. And we cling to this intuition, even as physics shows us that this view of reality may be only a very narrow perception. One of the most startling possibilities is that our 3+1 dimensional universe may better described as resulting from a spacetime one dimension lower – like a hologram projected from a surface infinitely far away.

By David Aragorn
Ultra-small nanoprobes could be a leap forward in high-resolution human-machine interfaces 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 6, 2019
Machine enhanced humans — or cyborgs as they are known in science fiction — could be one step closer to becoming a reality, thanks to new research Lieber Group at Harvard University, as well as scientists from University of Surrey and Yonsei University.

By David Aragorn
Physicists Teleport Quantum Information inside Diamond 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 6, 2019
A team of physicists at the Yokohama National University, Japan, has successfully demonstrated quantum teleportation — the remote exchange of quantum states — in a diamond.

By David Aragorn
Scientists invent fast method for ‘directed evolution’ of molecules 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 5, 2019
UNC School of Medicine scientists created a powerful new “directed evolution” technique for the rapid development of scientific tools and new treatments for many diseases.

By David Aragorn
Researchers tried (and failed) to kill cockroaches for six months: ‘We thought something was going to work’0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 4, 2019
As if cockroaches weren’t already hard enough to get rid of, a new study from Purdue University suggests the German cockroach – the most common in the world – is quickly evolving to resist insecticides.

By David Aragorn
‘It just really ethically scares me’: Caution urged as scientists look to create human-monkey chimeras 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 3, 2019
Some Alzheimer’s researchers are proposing the creation of human-monkey chimeras — part-human beings with entire portions of the brain entirely human derived

By David Aragorn