Science & Technology

A four-legged robot hints at how ancient tetrapods walked 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 18, 2019
Orobates pabsti may have had a more developed gait that previously thought

By David Aragorn
20,000 Satellites for 5G to be Launched Sending Focused Beams of Intense Microwave Radiation Over Entire Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 17, 2019
Public attention about 5G has been focused on the plans of telecom companies to install millions of small cell towers on electric utility poles, on public buildings and schools, on bus stop shelters, in public parks, and anywhere they want in national parks and on federally owned land.

By David Aragorn
Scientists identify two new species of fungi in retreating Arctic glacier 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 16, 2019
Two new species of fungi have made an appearance in a rapidly melting glacier on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, just west of Greenland. A collaborative team of researchers from Japan’s National Institute of Polar Research, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Tokyo, Japan, and Laval University in Québec, Canada made the discovery.

By David Aragorn
Scientists vote to change definition of kilogram 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 15, 2019
‘The vote is a unanimous yes; I hope that such votes will be possible for many other issues in the world’

By David Aragorn
Ion-based commercial quantum computer is a first 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 15, 2019
The first commercial quantum computer that uses trapped ions for quantum bits (qubits) has been launched by the US-based start-up IonQ.

By David Aragorn
A drill built for Mars is being used to bore into Antarctic bedrock 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 12, 2019
Scientists hope to retrieve rock samples that reveal the continent’s climate history

By David Aragorn
Scientists discovered the shape of electrons— can you guess what it is?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 10, 2019
Do you remember learning about protons, neutrons, and electrons in grade school? Your teacher probably never told you what shape electrons are, and there’s a good reason: No one knew for sure! At least, we didn’t know until recently, when a scientific study showed us the shape of electrons.

By David Aragorn
Artificial intelligence is mastering a wider variety of jobs than ever before 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 5, 2019
In 2018, artificial intelligence took on new tasks, with these smarty-pants algorithms acing everything from disease diagnosis to crater counting.

By David Aragorn
New Theory: The Universe is a Bubble, Inflated by Dark Energy 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- January 4, 2019
A mind-bending new theory claims to make sense not just of the expanding universe and extra dimensions, but string theory and dark energy as well. According to the new model, proposed in the journal Physical Review Letters by researchers from Uppsala University, the entire universe is riding on an expanding bubble in an “additional dimension” — which

By David Aragorn
The ideal bauble ratio and the sparkly science of decorating the perfect Christmas tree 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- December 24, 2018
Yes, there is an ideal bauble ratio

By David Aragorn