TR IBM Autonomous ‘Mayflower’ research ship will use IBM AI tech to cross the Atlantic in 2020TechCrunch - Darrell EtheringtonA fully autonomous ship called the “Mayflower” will make its voyage across the Atlantic Ocean next September, to mark the 400-year anniversary of the trip of the first Mayflower, which was very much not
TR Science Dormant for 500 Years, a Potentially Deadly Fault in California Has Started to MoveGizmodo - George Dvorsky This past summer, southern California experienced a significant earthquake swarm. Analysis of the event suggests earthquakes unravel in a more …
TR Drones Man Uses His Heat-Seeking Drone to Find Missing Childfuturism.com - Kristin Houser On Tuesday, a six-year-old boy named Ethan disappeared in Minnesota, prompting more than 600 people to form a search party. Numerous law enforcement …
FDROcean Exploration Biologists Get Morbidly Excited Over Discovering a Rare 'Whale Fall'ScienceAlert - Michelle Starr When a dead whale makes its final fall to the floor of the ocean, far from the rippling light of the Sun, its mighty carcass becomes a feast for the …
FDRRare Earth For The First Time Ever, Scientists Discover Fractal Patterns in a Quantum MaterialScienceAlert - Mike McRae From tiny snowflakes to the jagged fork of a lightning bolt, it's not hard to find examples of fractals in the natural world. So it might come as a …
TR Asteroids Could an Astronaut Lost in Space Use Gravity to Get Around?WIRED - Condé Nast Picture this: You’re floating in deep space, and there's a cute little beach-ball-size asteroid just 3 meters away. The rock’s mass is twice that of …
TR Evolution Modern Humans Inherited Even More DNA from Neanderthals and Denisovans Than We ThoughtGizmodo - George Dvorsky A comprehensive analysis of DNA from modern Melanesian people suggests an assortment of mutated genes inherited from extinct Neanderthals and …
TR Pérez I Study UFOs and This Is the Best UFO Documentary Ever MadeVICE - MJ BaniasI have seen a lot of UFO documentaries, and after a while, they start to get boring. They tend to tell the same old stories, or promote some snake-oil-selling UFO "expert." Perhaps the biggest issue I
TR Batteries Ultrapack 100,000mah rugged external battery packgeeky-gadgets.com - Julian Horsey If you need plenty of power while away from the grid you may be interested in the Ultrapack, a rugged external battery pack equipped with a …
TR Tesla Owners of older Teslas claim the vehicles have been breaking downDigital Trends - John Elkin For the last six months, owners of older Tesla vehicles have reported issues with the center console display going dark and being unresponsive. In a …
TR Technology The Army and a UFO Group Are Investigating Mysterious TechnologyPopular Mechanics - By Kyle MizokamiThe U.S. Army and a prominent UFO research group are teaming up to investigate mysterious technology, but won’t come out and say where the tech comes from. To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, the
TR Mathematics Mathematicians Have Discovered an Entirely New Way to Multiply Large NumbersScienceAlert - Peter Dockrill A pair of mathematicians from Australia and France have devised an alternative way to multiply numbers together, while solving an algorithmic puzzle …
TR Science Now retired, top U.S. environmental scientist feels free to speak her mindsciencemag.org - Warren Cornwall As director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in Durham, North Carolina, toxicologist Linda Birnbaum had to navigate …
TR Cancer How a Trial Vaccine Helped Wipe Out a Woman’s Breast Cancer in 7 MonthsPrevention - Korin Miller A woman in Florida is cancer-free just months after undergoing a new trial vaccine for her breast cancer. Lee Mercker was diagnosed with DCIS stage …
TR Mobile Technology 'Invisibility cloak' that could hide tanks and troops looks closer to realityThe Telegraph - By Tom HogginsHarry Potter’s "invisibility cloak" appears closer to reality as Canadian camouflage manufacturer Hyperstealth Biotechnology has applied for patents on its "Quantum Stealth" material. The "inexpensive
FDRClean Energy A 200-year-old technology could help millions living off the gridInverse - Jeff Kettle What if we could generate electricity from the cold night sky? More than 1.7 billion people worldwide still don’t have a reliable electricity …
FDR Scientists are making progress with better plastic-eating bacteriaPopular Science - Sarah ScolesSomeday engineered organisms might help us do a better job of recycling polymers. Molecular biologist Christopher Johnson was schmoozing at a party not long ago, talking with another guest about his research,
TR The Future The strange link between the human mind and quantum physicsBBC News - By Philip Ball"I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem." The American physicist Richard Feynman said this about the notorious puzzles paradoxes
TR Cancer Florida Woman Recovers from Breast Cancer with Trial Vaccine: ‘I Feel Like I Walked on the Moon’People - By Julie MazziottaA Florida woman is healthy again just months after being diagnosed with breast cancer, thanks to a new trial vaccine that is showing success against the deadly disease. Lee Mercker, from Jacksonville,
TR Animals Shark Researchers Are Trying to Figure Out What Bit a 13-Foot Great White on the Headtheinertia.com - The Inertia This would be an unnerving find as a scientist: capturing a large, great white shark measuring at around 13 feet, only to find it had a massive bite …
TR Consciousness Scientists Want to Try Using Shrooms to Revive People in Vegetative StatesVICE - Shayla LoveIn 2006, neuroscientist Adrian Owen and his colleagues reported what happened when a woman stuck in an unresponsive state was asked to imagine playing tennis. Her brain showed a pattern of activity nearly
TR Consciousness ‘Outlandish’ competition seeks the brain’s source of consciousnesssciencemag.org - Sara Reardon Brain scientists can watch neurons fire and communicate. They can map how brain regions light up during sensation, decision-making, and speech. What …
TR Science New seismic phenomenon discovered, named stormquakesNational Geographic - Maya Wei-HaasThe curious bursts of energy are born from massive storms and can radiate thousands of miles across continents. Below the rumble of passing cars, chirping birds, and rustling leaves, the Earth is constantly
TR Algae Researchers Turn Algae Into a Material as Hard as Steelecowatch.com - Yale Climate Connections Algae in a pond may look flimsy. But scientists are using algae to develop industrial-strength material that's as hard as steel but only a fraction …
TR Planetary Habitability OG: How we detected water on a potentially habitable exoplanet for the first timeTNW - The ConversationWith more than 4,000 exoplanets – planets orbiting stars other than our sun – discovered so far, it may seem like we are on the cusp of finding out whether we are alone in the universe. Sadly though, don’t
TR The Brain ‘I’m a neurologist, and these are the 5 things I do to keep my brain healthy’Well+Good - by Caroline Shannon Karasik Brain health—it’s not exactly sexy, but it’s basically the boss when it comes to your overall health. After all, without a healthy brain, you …
TR Climate Scientists suggest creating a detailed 3D map of Earth before we mess everything up even morebgr.com - Mike Wehner Humans are affecting Earth’s climate, and there’s a wealth of scientific evidence to support that fact. We’ve already begun to see some seriously …
TR Universe Faster-Than-Light Travel Could Explain Mysterious Signals Beaming Through the CosmosLive Science - Erika Carlson In a distant corner of the universe, something is traveling faster than light. No, the laws of physics aren't being violated: It's still true that …
