Briana BrownellJapan Japan Approves Scientist's Plan to Create World's First HumanimalsGizmodo For the first time, a government is supporting a plan to create animal embryos with human cells and bring them to term, resulting in a type of …
Briana BrownellTech Industry Learn to love your regulated future: A message from Wall Street to Silicon ValleyVentureBeat - Mazy Dar, OpenFinMove fast and break things: It’s a philosophy that many in the tech world have adopted as their mantra, long after Mark Zuckerberg immortalized it as the unofficial motto of Silicon Valley. Innovation
Briana BrownellCancer Graphic Medicine and the Limits of BiostatisticsAmerican Medical Association Increasing reliance on statistics for treatment and clinical risk assessment not only leads to the reductive interpretation of disease but also …
Briana BrownellHealth AI in health care: Capacity, capability, and a future of active health in AsiaMIT Technology Review - MIT Technology Review Insights To address a critical gap in health-care resources, the region is becoming a center of innovation in health-care artificial intelligence, robotics, …
Briana BrownellCulture Simone Biles Is Mathematically the Best Gymnast in History After This WeekendGQ - Luke DarbyThe 22-year-old broke the world record for most gymnastics medals two times in one day. This weekend Stuttgart, Germany, hosted the World Gymnastics Championship, and while it's nominally a venue for best
Briana BrownellMoon Do we owe our existence to the Moon?Salon - Keith A. SpencerThe far side of the moon as pictured with Earth in the background; taken from the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft. (NASA/NOAA) Science fiction can be oddly prescient. Though "Star Trek," "Star
Briana BrownellArtificial Intelligence Sunday Reading: The Rise of Artificial IntelligenceThe New YorkerWe’re living through an extraordinary moment in technological history. In the past decade, the rise of artificial intelligence (both in theory and in practice) has revolutionized computer science and workplace.
Briana BrownellExoplanets This exoplanet challenges our understanding of planet formationTNW - The ConversationThe discovery of yet another exoplanet is no longer news. More than 4,000 planets around other stars have now been found since the detection of the first one in 1995. As astronomers long suspected, or
Briana BrownellUniverse The astrophysicist searching for the Universe’s ‘dark stars’BBC FutureThe suspect is the basic matter that makes up as much as 25% of the Universe. It is part of the very web of all that we live in. And yet because it is not made of even the most basic building blocks of
Briana BrownellArizona State University Why Everything Is Getting LouderThe Atlantic - Bianca BoskerThe tech industry is producing a rising din. Our bodies can’t adapt. Karthic Thallikar first noticed the noise sometime in late 2014, back when he still enjoyed taking walks around his neighborhood. He’d
Briana BrownellNeurophilosophy Minibrains Grown In The Laboratory Produce Brainwaves. Now What?Forbes - Elizabeth FernandezIt’s hard to study the human brain. It is the most complex in the animal kingdom with its massive collection of neurons, 80-100 billion to be exact, three times more than chimpanzees. Research relating
Briana BrownellEnergy Black holes might not crush you after all—they could be even weirder than thatSYFY WIRE - Elizabeth Rayne Just when you thought one of the most bizarre things in space was something that eats massive amounts of light and energy and would probably shred …
Briana BrownellMathematics With Category Theory, Mathematics Escapes From EqualityQuanta Magazine - Kevin Hartnett Two monumental works have led many mathematicians to avoid the equal sign. Their goal: Rebuild the foundations of the discipline upon the looser …
Briana BrownellMoon The First Photograph of the Dark Side of the Moon from 1959kottke.org - Jason Kottke With the launch of Sputnik in 1957, the Soviet Union kicked off the Space Race and for the first several years (arguable up until the Moon landing in …
Briana BrownellPersonalization Consumers Are Wary About Personalization in Retail, but Open to ItAdweek - Diana Pearl Shoppers in the United Kingdom may be increasingly comfortable with personalization in retail, but they still have reservations, a new study …
Briana BrownellScience Recession: how unstable economic times take a physical toll on your brainInverse - Emma Betuel Brain scans show how income instability is linked to "unhealthy aging" "This poor performance is greater than what is normally seen due to one year in …
Briana BrownellScience The Biggest Quantum Breakthrough Yet—LiterallyPopular Mechanics - By Jennifer LemanFor the first time ever, physicists tested the phenomenon of quantum superposition using molecules. That's a big deal. Physicists have long struggled with a perplexing conundrum: How do we reconcile what
Briana BrownellJokes Hey computer, tell me a joke: the problem of teaching AI humoursciencefocus.com - Arthur I. Miller Artificial intelligence can learn the structure of a knock knock joke easily enough. But will it ever understand what makes us laugh? Have you heard …
Briana BrownellPainting Energetic Cityscapes Recreated as Pixelated Palette Knife PaintingsMy Modern Met - Emma TaggartBritish artist Jason Anderson creates colorful abstract paintings composed of pixelated swatches of pastel-toned oil paint. Up-close, the artist’s paintings look like blocky layers of shapes and color;
Briana BrownellNASA NASA is now officially accepting proposals for landers to take people to the MoonThe Verge - Loren GrushNASA is now officially accepting proposals for lunar lander designs that can carry humans to the surface of the Moon. The space agency issued a final call to the commercial space industry today, with due
Briana BrownellCharles Darwin Curious Kids: how do scientists know evolution is real?theconversation.com - Jenny Graves If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au. How do scientists know that evolution is real? – …
Briana BrownellMathematics Infinite Powers: The Story Of CalculusForbes - GrrlScientistCalculus is one the most profound inventions in human history. It underlies most modern technologies such as radio, television, radar, GPS navigation, cell phones, and MRI imaging. It informs meteorology,
Briana BrownellMars When -- or if -- NASA finds life on Mars, the world may not be ready for the discovery, the agency chief saysCNN - By Scottie Andrew, CNN(CNN) — NASA's next mission to Mars will be its most advanced yet. But if scientists discover there was once life -- or there is life -- on the Red Planet, will the public be able to handle such an extraterrestrial
Briana BrownellGeorge Smith Discovering Gilgamesh, the World’s First Action HeroNational Geographic - Francisco del Rio SanchezA self-taught scholar was responsible for finding the world’s first epic myth hidden among broken clay tablets in the British Museum. Recovered from Nineveh in the late 19th century, shattered clay tablets
Briana BrownellPhysics Is It a Wave or a Particle? It's Both, Sort Of.space.com - Paul Sutter Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of "Your Place in the Universe." …
Briana BrownellProgramming Learn to “Think Like A Coder” with our new seriested.com Curious about coding? Want to build your programming skills? Or perhaps you just love a good problem-solving challenge? We’re thrilled to announce our …
Briana BrownellIndie Music Why music has such profound effects on the brainpbs.org - Megan Thompson Have you ever wondered why you sometimes get a tingling feeling when you hear a certain piece of music? We did, and we thought we could ask a …
Briana BrownellSpace Space Photos of the Week: The ISS is Out of This WorldWIRED - Condé Nast The International Space Station is a football-field-sized science laboratory that orbits some 250 miles above Earth. Usually between three to nine …
Briana BrownellThe Brain What a New Theory of Attention Says About ConsciousnessThe Atlantic - Jordana CepelewiczQuantaFiltering out distractions might be more important for the brain than highlighting important information. We can pick out a conversation in a loud room, amid the rise and fall of other voices or the hum
