Thermodynamics Scientists: New Device Appears to Defy the Laws of Thermodynamicsfuturism.com - Jacob Banas Chill Out The laws of thermodynamics are pretty straightforward: Normally, heat from a hot object will flow to a cold one until they reach the same …
CRISPR Powerful CRISPR cousin accidentally mutates RNA while editing DNA targetsciencemag.org - Jon Cohen When researchers first reported 3 years ago that they had created base editors, a version of the powerful genome-editing tool CRISPR, excitement …
Fake News This Is How You Can Stop Fake News From Infiltrating Your Mind, According to ScienceScienceAlert - JULIAN MATTHEWS, THE CONVERSATION Although the term itself is not new, fake news presents a growing threat for societies across the world. Only a small amount of fake news is needed to …
Science Experimental Gene Therapy Frees “Bubble-boy” Babies from a Life of Isolationscientificamerican.com - Heidi Ledford, Nature magazine An experimental gene therapy has restored functioning immune systems to seven young children with a severe disorder that would have sentenced them to …
Science How long do vaccines last? The surprising answers may help protect people longersciencemag.org - Jon Cohen Like millions of people in the United States last year, Stanley Plotkin and his wife got vaccinated against influenza at the start of the Northern …
Cal Poly The science behind why the flagstick should be pulled 99.9 percent of the timeGolf Digest - Mike StachuraWhen you question the standards and practices of PGA Tour players, multiple expert teachers and perhaps even golf's ruling bodies, you better bring in some heavy thinking. Especially when you say that
Cleveland Clinic Everything you thought you knew about tetanus is wrongPopular Science - By Eleanor CumminsWhat’s rust got to do with it? Very little. The conversation in which your parents tell you to keep an eye out for rusty nails is basically a rite of passage. They tell you about the dangers of rust; the
Sleep Wake up, people: You're fooling yourself about sleep, study saysCNN - By Sandee LaMotte, CNN(CNN) — Hey, sleepyheads. What you believe about sleep may be nothing but a pipe dream. Many of us have notions about sleep that have little basis in fact and may even be harmful to our health, according
CRISPR First U.S. Patients Treated With CRISPR As Human Gene-Editing Trials Get UnderwayNPR - Rob SteinThe powerful gene-editing technique called CRISPR has been in the news a lot. And not all the news has been good: A Chinese scientist stunned the world last year when he announced he had used CRISPR to
Women's News Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew it - CNNCNN
Technology Ailsa Bay Releases Blockchain-Protected Scotch WhiskyForbes - Felipe SchriebergWilliam Grant & Sons, the company that own whisky brands including distilleries Glenfiddich and Balvenie, has a released a new whisky that uses blockchain technology to prevent counterfeiting and provide
Science The Worst Disease Ever RecordedThe Atlantic - Ed YongA doomsday fungus known as Bd has condemned more species to extinction than any other pathogen. A century ago, a strain of pandemic flu killed up to 100 million people—5 percent of the world’s population.
Health Scientists Discover a Woman Who Feels No Pain or Anxiety. She Thought It Was NormalScienceAlert - DAVID NIELD Jo Cameron has a rather unusual superpower: she doesn't feel pain, or only very slightly, and she didn't even realise this wasn't normal until she …
The Brain Scientists Discover Signs of New Neurons Developing Even in Adult Brains as Old as 87ScienceAlert - PETER DOCKRILL Human beings grow new brain cells throughout their late adult life, a new study shows, even continuing when people are approaching their 90s. The …
Scientists Identify The Location of 'Taste' in Your Head, And It's Not The TongueScienceAlert - DAVID NIELD How exactly do our brains sort between the five taste groups: sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami? We've now got a much better idea, thanks to …
The Boeing 737 Max crisis goes way beyond softwareQuartz - Tim FernholzThere is no small complexity in the task of carrying hundreds of people through the sky at hundreds of miles an hour. More than 100,000 airliners take off and land each day, but two deadly air crashes
Science 800 scientists say it’s time to abandon “statistical significance”Vox - Brian ResnickP-values and “statistical significance” are widely misunderstood. Here’s what they actually mean. For too long, many scientists’ careers have been built around the pursuit of a single statistic: p<.05.
Weird World's Largest Atom Smasher May Have Just Found Evidence for Why Our Universe ExistsLive Science - Stephanie Pappas For the first time ever, physicists at the world’s largest atom smasher have observed differences in the decay of particles and antiparticles …
Technology The Mysterious Exploding AsteroidThe Atlantic - Marina KorenA NASA spacecraft reached a space rock and found it orbited by tiny moons—a phenomenon that “has never been seen before in any solar-system object.” Billions of years ago, something—perhaps the vibrations
Positive trial results show ultrasound energy can treat high blood pressurenewatlas.com - Rich Haridy A promising new study is documenting the long-term effects of a novel surgical procedure using ultrasound to reduce blood pressure in patients with …
Scientists can turn regular seawater into hydrogen fuelEngadget - Amrita KhalidThe ocean may soon be a valuable source of renewable energy. A team of scientists at Stanford have figured out a way to make hydrogen fuel out of saltwater. The discovery could open up the world's oceans
Technology Preparing to Unleash Crispr on an Unprepared WorldWIRED - Jennifer Kahn Back in the 1980s, researchers began to notice a strange pattern in the genes of many microbes. There would be a stretch of DNA that read the same …
Mind-bending model shows Venus isn’t our nearest neighbor — Mercury isDigital Trends If someone asked which planet was closest to Earth, you’d be pretty certain — it’s Venus. We measure distances in the solar system in terms of …
There's Mounting Evidence That Parkinson's Starts in The Gut - Not The BrainScienceAlert - DAVID NIELD Scientists have found mounting evidence that Parkinson's could start in the gut before spreading to the brain, with one study in 2017 observing lower …
Cholesterol-fighting drug which does not cause aching muscles could be alternative to statinsThe Telegraph - By Sarah KnaptonA cholesterol-fighting drug which does not cause aching muscles could help patients who cannot take statins because of debilitating side-effects. Bempedoic acid stops the body being able to create the
Play button How humanity learned to go farther (and get there faster)Popular Science - By Charlie WoodHumanity's biggest milemarkers. Wind, horse, and people power enforced strict speed limits for most of human history, but that never stopped us from venturing. By A.D. 400, Polynesians had explored the
Incredible Virus Discovery Just Changed Our Understanding of How They Can SpreadScienceAlert - MIKE MCRAE Viruses are the IKEA furniture of the living world. In the right kind of cell, a handful of instructions and a few molecular tools can churn out …
Here's Why Joints Crack And Pop, And What It Really Means For Your Poor Old BodyScienceAlert - REBECCA SHEPHERD & ADAM TAYLOR, THE CONVERSATION Joints emit a variety of noises, including popping, snapping, catching, clicking, grinding, grating and clunking. The technical term for these noises …
Space You've Heard of Black Holes. But 'White Holes' Might Just Break Your Puny BrainScienceAlert - MICHELLE STARR Black holes might easily be the most compelling mysteries in the Universe. Thought to be the collapsed cores of dead stars, these strange objects are …
Sound May Be Carried by Tiny Particles With Negative Gravityfuturism.com - Dan Robitzski Important Update Conventional wisdom in physics dictates that sound waves are massless fluctuations in pressure that travel through materials like …
