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Happiness
Forgiving is hard, but not forgiving hurts more – set yourself free
Ladders - Gustavo Razzetti
Let bygones be bygones. Forget and move on. Kiss and make up. Forgiving is easier said than done. Most people believe that forgiveness means condoning …
Molecular Biology
Unlikely drug pair combine to cut off cancer's energy supply
newatlas.com - Nick Lavars
Cancer cells are a hungry bunch, calling on relatively huge amounts of energy to feed their demanding metabolisms. There's a particular molecule that …
Cancer Treatment
Breakthrough cancer treatment trials put on hold following death of a patient
futurism.com
The FDA has also moved to halt CAR-T testing on leukemia, even though it was shown to work on two infants earlier this year. Lasting Impacts Cellectis …
Technology
Australia's horrific new encryption law likely to obliterate its tech scene
TNW - Tristan Greene
Australia‘s government signed a bill into law last week giving law enforcement agencies the right to force technology companies to reveal users’ encrypted messages. Another way of putting it: Australia‘s
Physical Geography
Scientists Reveal a Massive Biosphere of Life Hidden Under Earth's Surface
Science Alert - PETER DOCKRILL
Earth is not the home you think it is. Far below the scant surface spaces we inhabit, the planet is teeming with an incredibly vast and deep 'dark …
Mental Disorders
Showering Has a Dark, Violent History
The Atlantic - Sarah Zhang
In the 19th century, cold rinses and days-long baths became a way to treat—and control—psychiatric patients. The 19th century was a time of great innovation in plumbing. Cities got the first modern sewers,
The Brain
You Can Rewire Your Brain to Have a Super Memory
futurism.com
Mnemonic Jocks We know the brains of “memory athletes” are different—but it’s not because they started out that way. The tasks that elite mnemonic …
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon’s CEO Perfectly Explains AI in Just Two Sentences
futurism.com
New advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning promise to make some jobs obsolete through automation and change our world forever, …
Molecular Biology
Physicists Confirm There’s a Second Layer of Information Hidden in Our DNA
futurism.com
The folding mechanism of DNA is believed to play a large role in how genes are read by the rest of the cell. Biologists have started to isolate …
Environment
We Finally Know What Killed Sea Life in The Deadliest Mass Extinction in History
Science Alert - MICHELLE STARR
Around 252 million years ago, Earth experienced catastrophic devastation - an extinction event so severe that it wiped out almost all of the life on …
Molecular Biology
The 10 Most Incredible Medical Breakthroughs of 2018
Prevention - Meghan Rabbitt
From medical drones to the first FDA-approved cannabis drug, innovative research continues to transform the future of health care. 1 Medical …
Tech Trends
New 'Negative' Battery Type Could Mean Charging Your Phone Just Once a Week
Science Alert - MIKE MCRAE
There are a few things we should demand from a decent power supply. Not least, it shouldn't require oven-like temperatures to function. That's just a …
Technology (Australia)
Scientists develop 10-minute universal cancer test
The Guardian - Ian Sample Science editor
Scientists have developed a universal cancer test that can detect traces of the disease in a patient’s bloodstream. The cheap and simple test uses a colour-changing fluid to reveal the presence of malignant
Genetics
The CRISPR Baby Scandal Gets Worse by the Day
The Atlantic - Ed Yong
The alleged creation of the world's first gene-edited infants was full of technical errors and ethical blunders. Here are the 15 most damning details. Updated on December 4 at 10:55 a.m. ET. Before last
Harvard Business School
Actually, Science Says Pushing Yourself Way Outside Your Comfort Zone Is a Terrible Idea
Inc Magazine - By Jessica Stillman
Stay in your “zone of proximal development” isn’t as catchy as "get out of your comfort zone," but it's better advice. If you're looking for self-improvement advice online, the first thing you're likely
Opinion
Genetically Modified People Are Walking Among Us
The New York Times - By CARL ZIMMER
It felt as if humanity had crossed an important line: In China, a scientist named He Jiankui announced on Monday that twins had been born in November with a gene that he had edited when they were embryos.
Aging
Fountains of youth: Biotech startups emerge from stealth mode to ‘take on aging’
bostonglobe.com - Robert Weisman
A super-stealthy holding company called Life Biosciences has launched more than a half dozen biotechs aimed at finding new ways to slow the aging …
Technology
The first 8K satellite TV broadcasts launched today in Japan
Engadget - Richard Lawler
Congratulations, your 4K TV is officially obsolete! As scheduled, at 10 AM local time on December 1st Japanese TV networks began publicly broadcasting 4K and 8K channels via satellite. Even after a couple
Psychology
Climate change: Where we are in seven charts and what you can do to help
bbc.co.uk
Representatives from nearly 200 countries are gathering in Poland for talks on climate change - aimed at breathing new life into the Paris Agreement. The UN has warned the 2015 Paris accord's goal of global
Physics
Physicists Say They’ve Figured out How Spacecraft Could Make It Through a Wormhole
futurism.com
A physical object, such as a person or a spacecraft, could theoretically make it through a wormhole in the centre of a black hole, and maybe even …
Physics
Physicists Just Confirmed Evidence of A Possible Fifth Fundamental Force
futurism.com
Forces of Nature To date, there are four conventionally known fundamental forces that hold the universe together—gravity, electromagnetism, and the …
Health
The Human Body Has a Strange Type of Fat That Can Actually Help Weight Loss
Science Alert - SAMUEL VIRTUE, ANTONIO VIDAL-PUIG & VANESSA PELLEGRINELLI, THE CONVERSATION
Obesity is a disease where people accumulate more and more fat. When they reach a certain point, their fat stops working and they develop disease, …
Biomarkers
You have two ages, chronological and biological. Here's why it matters
CNN - By Samantha Bresnahan, CNN
(CNN) — Reminiscent of a scene from "The Social Network," the whiteboard in researcher and professor Morgan Levine's Yale Medical School office is covered in a series of letters and numbers. She clicks
Physics
Physicists Got Their First Look at the Bond That Holds Most of Our Universe Together
futurism.com
Back to Basics Hydrogen is one of the most common elements in the world — making up 75 percent of all visible matter and more than 90 percent of all …
Genetics
The era of human gene-editing may have begun. Why that is worrying
The Economist
HUMANITY’S POWER to control the four-letter code of life has advanced by leaps and bounds. A new gene-editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9, which …
Weight Loss
NHS pins hopes on liquid-only diet to reverse diabetes in thousands of overweight adults
The Telegraph - By Laura Donnelly and Sarah Knapton
Liquid diets will be prescribed to thousands of people with diabetes in a bid to reverse the disease. Overweight adults will be put on a strict regime limiting them to 800 calories a day in an effort tackle
Molecular Biology
The Chinese CRISPR baby debacle takes another dark turn
Wired UK - Amit Katwala
Rogue scientist He Jiankui failed to appear at a planned panel discussion on Thursday, ducking out of the spotlight with the scientific community …
Face Transplant
Face Transplant Patient Reveals New Look 10 Months After Surgery
Geek - By Genevieve Scarano
Cameron Underwood poses during the 2018 NYU Langone Face Transplant Announcement at NYU Langone Medical Center on November 29, 2018 in New York City. …
The Future
NASA Curiosity rover investigates shiny object on Mars
CNET - by Amanda Kooser
The Curiosity team has a pretty good guess as to what it is.
Lisboa
In The Future, Earth Will Have Just One Continent. It Might Look Like This
Science Alert - MATTIAS GREEN, HANNAH SOPHIA DAVIES & JOAO C DUARTE, THE CONVERSATION
The outer layer of the Earth, the solid crust we walk on, is made up of broken pieces, much like the shell of a broken egg. These pieces, the …