Science & Technology

Extinct Cave Bear DNA Found in Living Bears 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 28, 2018
The discovery is the first of its kind outside the human lineage.

By David Aragorn
Laser breakthrough has physicists close to cooling down antimatter 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 28, 2018
For the first time, physicists at CERN have observed a benchmark atomic energy transition in anithydrogen, a major step toward cooling and manipulating the basic form of antimatter.

By David Aragorn
Genetic error led humans to evolve bigger, but more vulnerable, brains 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 28, 2018
Newly-discovered genes that helped supersize human brains along with DNA retrieved from extinct humans, which can still be found in people living today, are expanding scientists’ understanding of how our species evolved. One of the major features that distinguish humans from other primates is the size of our brains, which underwent rapid evolution from about

By David Aragorn
The Consolations of Physics: Why the Wonders of the Universe Can Make You Happy by Tim Radford – review 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- August 28, 2018
From the Voyager mission to detecting the merging of black holes over a billion years ago, an argument for the pleasures of theoretical thinking

By David Aragorn
America’s oldest EVER human REVEALED after scientists reconstruct cavewoman’s face 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 25, 2018
SCIENTISTS have finally put a face to a “pretty” woman whose remains are the most ancient ever discovered in the Americas.

By David Aragorn
How Human Smarts Evolved 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 24, 2018
Suzana Herculano-Houzel spent most of 2003 perfecting a macabre recipe—a formula for brain soup. Sometimes she froze the jiggly tissue in liquid nitrogen, and then she liquefied it in a blender. Other times she soaked it in formaldehyde and then mashed it in detergent, yielding a smooth, pink slurry.

By David Aragorn
Scientists create a mineral in the lab that captures carbon dioxide 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 22, 2018
A new technique might one day help combat global warming

By David Aragorn
Paul Allen’s space firm details plans for rockets, cargo vehicle 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 22, 2018
The space company of billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen on Monday unveiled details of medium-lift rockets and a reusable space cargo plane it is developing, injecting more competition into the lucrative launch services market.

By David Aragorn
Use of ‘killer robots’ in wars would breach law, say campaigners 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 21, 2018
Calls grow for ban on fully autonomous weapons, following NGO coalition report

By David Aragorn
Researchers Discover New Molecular Properties of Water 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 21, 2018
Water has numerous anomalous properties, many of which remain poorly understood. One of its intriguing behaviors is that it exhibits the so-called temperature of maximum density (TMD) at 3.98 degrees Celsius (39.16 degrees Fahrenheit). In a new study published in the journal Physical Review Letters, researchers at New York University provide experimental evidence for previously unknown abrupt changes in proton (H+) transfer kinetics in water at this temperature.

By David Aragorn