Science & Technology

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Using math to investigate possibility of time travel 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 12, 2017
Mathematical model of a ‘TARDIS’ takes the ‘fiction’ out of science fiction

By David Aragorn
This Robot Completes a 2-Hour Brain Surgery Procedure in Just 2.5 Minutes 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 12, 2017
Researchers believe their surgery-assisting robot is capable of performing complex brain surgeries. The machine can reduce the time of surgeries by cutting down the time it takes to cut into the skull from two hours to two and a half minutes.

By David Aragorn
CERN points giant magnet at the Sun to look for dark matter particles 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 11, 2017
Axions don’t show up yet, but that doesn’t mean they’re not out there.

By David Aragorn
New technology generates power from polluted air 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 10, 2017
Researchers from the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, have succeeded in developing a process that purifies air and, at the same time, generates power. The device must only be exposed to light in order to function.

By David Aragorn
NASA Team Pursues Blobs and Bubbles with New PetitSat Mission 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 10, 2017
Figuring out how plasma bubbles and blobs affect one another and ultimately the transmission of communications, GPS, and radar signals in Earth’s ionosphere will be the job of a recently selected CubeSat mission.

By David Aragorn
Vector successfully launches its micro-satellite with a 3D-printed part 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 9, 2017
More tests are on the horizon

By David Aragorn
Made In Space reveals the Archinaut, a robot-operated factory in the sky 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 9, 2017
Made In Space, Inc. is known as the company behind the 3D printers on board the International Space Station. Astronauts have used the startup’s AMF, or Additive Manufacturing Facility, on the ISS to churn out everything from finger splints to tools, sculptures and even other printer parts.

By David Aragorn
Genetically modified algae could soon show up in food, fuel, and pharmaceuticals 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 4, 2017
Researchers created souped-up algae that can thrive outdoors

By David Aragorn
A “World First” Fusion Reactor Just Created Its First Plasma 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 4, 2017
Tokamak Energy’s fusion reactor has achieved first plasma and is on track to produce temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit) by 2018.

By David Aragorn
Neuroscientists Discover a Song That Reduces Anxiety By 65 Percent 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 3, 2017
Anxiety — that feeling of dread, fear, worry and panic — is certainly nothing new. Hippocrates wrote about it in the fourth century BCE. As did Søren Kierkegaard in the 1860s. And Sigmund Freud addressed the disorder in 1926.

However, jump to the present and we’re seeing a significant uptick — especially with youth.

By David Aragorn