Science & Technology

‘Unnatural’ microbe can make proteins 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- December 2, 2017
An altered microbe with an “unnatural” genetic code has been shown to assemble proteins – a key step towards designing new drugs and materials.

By David Aragorn
Inspired by origami, scientists build artificial muscle that lifts 1,000 times its own weight 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 30, 2017
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have developed a variety of origami-inspired artificial muscles that can lift up to a thousand times their own weight — and yet be dexterous enough to grip and raise a delicate flower.

By David Aragorn
A New Study Examines How Consciousness in the Universe is Scale Invariant and Implies an Event Horizon of the Human Brain 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 30, 2017
A paper recently published in the Journal of NeuroQuantology presents a unitary holofractogramic model that is redefining scientists’ view of the physics of consciousness and the seamless interplay of information dynamics from the most fundamental levels of the universe to the living system and the cosmos as a whole.

By David Aragorn
New findings have physicists questioning reality 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 30, 2017
Physicists at CERN are working to determine why the equal amounts of matter and antimatter in the universe haven’t annihilated each other.

By David Aragorn
Physicists Just Found a Loophole in Graphene That Could Unlock Clean, Limitless Energy 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 30, 2017
By all measures, graphene shouldn’t exist. The fact it does comes down to a neat loophole in physics that sees an impossible 2D sheet of atoms act like a solid 3D material.

By David Aragorn
Flu Vaccine Study Results Are Not Good 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 29, 2017
A JAMA study has found that the flu vaccine, taken by 60% of people over 65-years-old, may be killing a significant number of senior citizens.

By David Aragorn
Antarctic glacier’s rough belly exposed 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 28, 2017
The melting Antarctic ice stream that is currently adding most to sea-level rise may be more resilient to change than previously recognised.

By David Aragorn
Understanding Einstein’s Special Relativity will change your life forever: the future already exists!0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 27, 2017
Our everyday knowledge of time is that only the present ‘now’ exists. Everything that exists ‘now’ is contained in our present world (three-dimensional space). Events of the past and the future do not exist at all. The past is gone, the future not existing yet. Only the present exists. This is called presentism.

By David Aragorn
Different types of alcohol elicit different emotional responses 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 24, 2017
Spirits most frequently associated with feelings of aggression, international survey shows

By David Aragorn
Hand Sanitizer Alters the Results of Breathalyzer Tests in New Experiment 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 23, 2017
If a police officer pulls you over for driving while intoxicated, you could be brought in for a breath alcohol test. If that happens, you’d better hope the test operator doesn’t slather their hands in an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, first.

By David Aragorn