Science & Technology

Watch Cassie the bipedal robot run a 5K 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 29, 2021
And it did so on its own without a tether.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Observed a Brainless Blob Thinking and Making Decisions 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 27, 2021
The slime mold Physarum uses mechanical signals to probe environments that it hasn’t directly explored yet.

By David Aragorn
Can consciousness be explained by quantum physics? My research takes us a step closer to finding out 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 27, 2021
One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction of black holes, physicist Roger Penrose teamed up with anaesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff to propose an ambitious answer.

By David Aragorn
‘Generator’ Turns Plastic Trash Into Edible Protein 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 26, 2021
Two U.S. scientists have won a 1 million euro ($1.18 million) prize for creating a food generator concept that turns plastics into protein.

By David Aragorn
Air Force Directed Energy Report Argues Defensive Force Fields May Be “Just On The Horizon”0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 23, 2021
The Air Force Research Laboratory argues that we’ve hit a tipping point with directed energy technologies, bringing many science fiction concepts closer to reality.

By David Aragorn
The leader’s brain: Neuroscience in the workplace 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 22, 2021
The brain rarely fires on all cylinders even at the best of times – what more during a pandemic?

By David Aragorn
Scientists Are Giving AI The Ability to Imagine Things It’s Never Seen Before 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 22, 2021
Artificial intelligence (AI) is proving very adept at certain tasks – like inventing human faces that don’t actually exist, or winning games of poker – but these networks still struggle when it comes to something humans do naturally: imagine.

By David Aragorn
Just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study shows 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 21, 2021
What makes humans unique? Scientists have taken another step toward solving an enduring mystery with a new tool that may allow for more precise comparisons between the DNA of modern humans and that of our extinct ancestors.

By David Aragorn
Artificial intelligence: governments see huge business potential, but ignore the downsides 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 21, 2021
Many governments are increasingly approaching artificial intelligence with an almost religious zeal. By 2018 at least 22 countries around the world, and also the EU, had launched grand national strategies for making AI part of their business development, while many more had announced ethical frameworks for how it should be allowed to develop. The EU documents more than 290 AI policy initiatives in individual EU member states between 2016 and 2020.

By David Aragorn
$Only a tiny fraction of our DNA is uniquely human$
Only a tiny fraction of our DNA is uniquely human 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 20, 2021
The result underscores how big of a hand interbreeding among ancient hominids had in shaping us

By David Aragorn