Pandemic Our big cities are vulnerable to ‘inevitable’ pandemicnews.com.au - Nick Whigham A large jump in arrivals by air and urbanisation are the two main factors that are making it increasingly difficult to protect against fast-spreading …
Scientists Genetically Engineer Living Cells to Store “Memories” in Their DNAfuturism.com - Cecille De Jesus For the first time ever, biological engineers from MIT have found a way to make cells “remember” past events. Of course, they can’t exactly recite π, …
Opening Pandora’s Box: Gene Editing and Its Consequencestheepochtimes.com - John Bergeron Today, the scientific community is aghast at the prospect of gene editing to create “designer” humans. Gene editing may be of greater consequence …
On the age of computation in the epoch of humankindnature.com - Christoph Rosol,Benjamin Steininger,Jürgen Renn &Robert Schlögl We live in a moment of profound transitions caused by the accelerating dynamics of planetary change. The digital transformation is an important …
The End Of The World with Josh Clarkstitcher.com There’s one last thing. Maybe the reason why we don’t see other intelligent life, maybe the reason we are in the astoundingly unique position of …
Earth Is Totally Unprepared For a Surprise Asteroid Strike, NASA Scientists WarnScienceAlert - Bec Crew NASA is certainly not in the business of spreading panic over asteroid strikes - every time one comes close, we see yet another press release telling …
50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At FatNPR - Camila DomonoskeIn the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine. The article draws
In time warping study, people unconsciously controlled blood sugar levelsArs Technica - Beth Mole Researchers suggest well-timed placebos may be useful in managing type 2 diabetes. Ideas can be powerful drugs. If a person is simply convinced that a …
Meet the First Artificial AnimalInc Magazine - Lisa CalhounScientists genetically engineered and 3-D-printed a biohybrid being, opening the door further for lifelike robots and artificial intelligence. If you met this lab-created critter over your beach vacation,
Solar Panels Solar cell sucks up CO2 and spits burnable fuel out the other sidenewatlas.com - Nick Lavars Recreating a plant's ability to use sunlight to turn carbon dioxide into fuel, something known as artificial photosynthesis, is one of the holy …
In 20 Years, Couples Won't Have Sex to Reproduce, Says Genetics Expertbigthink.com Will we be building a better world or a more homogeneous one? The 1932 dystopian masterpiece Brave New World opens with a tour of the Central London …
Behavior Why we feel emotions in our guts, and what microbes have to do with itLos Angeles TimesIn the dark, oxygen-free zone of our large intestines, a vast community of life is flourishing. Scientists say there are more than 100 trillion microbes living there, and if you gathered them all together,
The Top 10 Emerging Technologies Of 2016 [INFOGRAPHIC]valuewalk.com The Top 10 Emerging Technologies Of 2016 by Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist Sometimes the world is not yet ready for a new technology to enter the …
There's Very Little Evidence That Flossing Actually Worksiflscience.com - Tom Hale Don't lie, everybody exaggerates how often they floss when they go to the dentist. However, maybe there’s no need to feel wracked with guilt the next …
Brainwaves Researchers think we may have to protect our brains from hackers in a few yearsTNW - Bryan ClarkWhat if hackers could one day control your mind, or at least take a glimpse inside, through the use of sophisticated malware? It’s a scenario that’s sounds straight out of a science fiction novel, but
Carbon Scientists turn CO2 into fuel with solar powerEngadget - Daniel CooperResearchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago believe that they've perfected the art of photosynthetic solar cells. It's a technology that mimics a plant's ability to inhale carbon dioxide and,
Neuroscientists Still Don’t Know Why Music Sounds GoodWIRED - Chelsea Leu Your taste in music is weird. Maybe you just can’t stop listening to that power ballad, or you’ve wondered about your bewildering weakness for …
Entrepreneurship "In the future we will all be homeless" says co-living entrepreneurdezeen.com - Jessica Mairs
Earth EPIC Earth: A Year of Days From Spaceslate.com - By Phil Plait NASA has released a pretty amazing video: It consists of more than 3,000 images of Earth taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on …
Geophysicists just debunked a key assumption about how Earth's continents formedBusiness Insider - Erin BrodwinOver tens of millions of years, as the familiar story goes, these giant hunks of rock slowly split apart, breaking up at a rate of just a millimeter — a little more than the thickness of a credit card
5 prescription drugs doctors had no idea could hurt their patientsted.com - Shirin Samimi-Moore As a doctor, Ben Goldacre likes to have all the available facts about a prescription drug before he even thinks about prescribing it. However, when it …
Diapers Why cloth diapers might not be the greener choice, after allThe Washington Post - By Kendyl SalcitoThe invaluable yet lowly diaper was first mass-produced in 1887, a rectangle of oft-soiled, washable cotton fabric unimproved for more than 60 years, until a disposable version appeared. Ever since, the
The Chemistry Of Titan Could Pave The Way For Future Lifeiflscience.com - Robin Andrews The precursors to life may be on Saturn’s smoggy moon Titan, but not in the way you think. Far from there being DNA or RNA drifting around the muddy …
How to read the genome and build a human beingted.com - Riccardo Sabatini Secrets, disease and beauty are all written in the human genome, the complete set of genetic instructions needed to build a human being. Now, as …
Computers This computer will grow your food in the futureted.com - Caleb Harper (This talk is under review by TED's editors.) What if we could grow delicious, nutrient-dense food, indoors anywhere in the world? Caleb Harper, …
Aging A roadmap to end agingted.com - Aubrey de Grey Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all …
We can reprogram life. How to do it wiselyted.com - Juan Enriquez For four billion years, what lived and died on Earth depended on two principles: natural selection and random mutation. Then humans came along and …
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