Artificial intelligence risks GM-style public backlash, experts warn0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 4, 2017
Researchers say social, ethical and political concerns are mounting and greater oversight is urgently needed
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‘The Devil’s element’: the dark side of phosphorus0
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- November 3, 2017
It glows and burns and is associated with glowing skulls, graveyard ghosts and spontaneous human combustion – not to mention painful and fatal illness
Physicists describe new dark matter detection strategy0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 3, 2017
Physicists from Brown University have devised a new strategy for directly detecting dark matter, the elusive material thought to account for the majority of matter in the universe.
Solar Warden: A fully oeprational, top-secret Space Program0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 2, 2017
What if there really is a secret space program financed by a so-called black budget?
Researchers demonstrate how to control liquid crystal patterns0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 2, 2017
Research led by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrated that not only could patterns on liquid crystals be controlled at nanoscales, but the changes could be visible without microscopes.
Heavy metal thunder: Protein can be switched on to conduct electricity like a metal0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 2, 2017
When pushing the boundaries of discovery, sometimes even the most experienced of scientists can get a surprise jolt from a completely unpredictable result.
Giant glowing orb appears over Siberia0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- October 31, 2017
Social media erupts with alien invasion theories — until a more sensible explanation emerges.
Can Something Get So Hot that It Can’t Get Any Hotter?0
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- October 28, 2017
When it comes to temperature—we know that there’s an absolute zero. But is there an absolute ‘hot’?
The first genetically engineered humans might not have their DNA tweaked at all0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- October 27, 2017
The new technique offers a less permanent way to edit the genome.
Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- October 26, 2017
New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. Scientists have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6,000-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye color of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today.
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