The appendix may play a role in Parkinson's diseaseQuartz - Katherine Ellen FoleyFor years, medical scientists have suspected the appendix—a tiny organ tucked away near our large intestines—lacks a real purpose in our bodies. They believed it was a vestigial organ, that might have
Mini Brains Just Got Creepier—They’re Growing Their Own VeinsWIRED - Megan Molteni The first human brain balls—aka cortical spheroids, aka neural organoids—agglomerated into existence just a few short years ago. In the beginning, …
Center Of The Milky Way Has Thousands Of Black Holes, Study ShowsNPR - Nell GreenfieldboyceThe supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy appears to have a lot of company, according to a new study that suggests the monster is surrounded by about 10,000 other black holes. For
Scientists find languages not used since Dark Ages among ancient manuscripts recovered from monasteryindependent.co.uk - Jeff Farrell Languages not seen since the Dark Ages have come to light after scientists used a new method to inspect a trove of ancient manuscripts found in a …
Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, And Other Scientists On God: The Existence And Mind Of God [Opinion]The Inquisitr - Kim McLendon Stephen Hawking and Michio Kaku both speak of God. So did Albert Einstein. Kaku is a believer in intelligent design, but Hawking doesn’t resonate …
Newly discovered particles, and what's in themThe Guardian - Jon ButterworthLast month the LHCb experiment, at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), reported the discovery of a new particle. While this received a reasonable amount of attention, it didn’t really cause as much excitement
Scientists successfully infiltrate computer using malware coded into DNAThe Verge - Thuy OngIn what reads like science fiction becoming reality, researchers at the University of Washington have been able to successfully infect a computer with malware coded into a strand of DNA. In order to see
Play button Controversial New Theory Suggests Life Wasn't a Fluke of Biology—It Was PhysicsWIRED - Natalie Wolchover The biophysicist Jeremy England made waves in 2013 with a new theory that cast the origin of life as an inevitable outcome of thermodynamics. His …
A Team of Scientists Just Made Food From Electricity — and it Could be the Solution to World Hungerfuturism.com - Tom Ward Finnish researchers have created a batch of single-cell protein that is nutritious enough to serve for dinner using a system powered by renewable …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoGenetics Scientists build DNA from scratch to alter life's blueprintapnewsarchive.com - By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — At Jef Boeke's lab, you can whiff an odor that seems out of place, as if they were baking bread here.But he and his colleagues are …
A Plan For Raising Brilliant Kids, According To ScienceNPR - Anya KamenetzSince NPR Ed first published this piece last year, it has become one of our most popular posts of all time. And since then, there has been a little anecdotal proof of concept for these parenting theories:
A scientist named George Church has a wild idea to upend evolution — here’s what you should know about himBusiness Insider - Sharon Begley, STATThey're considering launching a decade-long drive to build, from scratch, all the genes that make humans human. The meeting raised all sorts of ethical questions. But that's nothing new for Church. He
txchnologisttxchnologist.com - GE Minds + Machines Do you know your Mozart from your microprocessor? The distance is rapidly narrowing between the abilities of the long-dead master of music and the …
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txchnologisttxchnologist.com - GE Minds + Machines A new method of depositing drops of soft materials in a gel could be a new way to print squishy three-dimensional products like living tissue, soft …
Study examines why left cheek portraits appear happierpsypost.org - Roberta Jenkins When viewing faces people report the left side of the face to be more expressive than the right, according to a study recently published in Brain and …
Energy Department Tells Staff to Stop Using Phrase 'Climate Change'ecowatch.com - Lorraine Chow A supervisor at the Department of Energy's Office of International Climate and Clean Energy told staff to stop using the phrases "climate change," …
The Washington war on science and the environment is getting totally insanetreehugger.com - Lloyd Alter The 1925 Scopes trial was seen as a trial of modern science, of God vs Darwin; it was dramatized with Gene Kelly, Donna Anderson*, Frederick March, …
Breathing's Link to Calmness and Stress, RevealedInverse - By Yasmin Tayag We take it for granted that breathing and feelings go hand in hand: Deep breaths make us calm, and short, shallow ones signal a sense of panic. This …
The Way We Teach Math Is Holding Women BackTIME - Jo BoalerJo Boaler is a Stanford University professor and co-founder of youcubed.org First Daughter Ivanka Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos toured the National Air and Space Museum with a group of middle
D-Wave’s quantum computers take a quantum leap forward, now offer 2,000 qubitsExtremeTech - Joel Hruska Over the past few years, quantum computer manufacturer D-Wave has been rolling out hardware capable of increasingly complex tasks and solving more …
Explaining the upside and downside of D-Wave’s new quantum computerArs Technica - Chris Lee D-Wave, a company based in British Columbia, has announced a new version of its quantum annealer: the D-Wave 2000Q. As the name suggests, the number …
Jeeva Wireless, founded by UW researchers, raises $1.2M to develop ‘breakthrough’ passive Wi-Fi systemgeekwire.com - Taylor Soper A group of University of Washington engineers has raised capital to develop and commercialize a power-efficient way to generate WiFi …
Dropbox Smart Sync lets you collaborate across Mac and Windows PCsEngadget - Nicole LeePaper, the company's Google Docs and Office competitor, is also available today. Last year, Dropbox introduced an interesting new feature called Project Infinite, which promised to let you view and access
Where to find what's disappeared online, and a whole lot more: the Internet ArchivePRI - Mary Kay MagistadIn a gleaming white former church with Greek-style pillars, under the shade of cypress trees in a quiet neighborhood of San Francisco, an effort to preserve much of what’s online, and to scan books, and
Is Technology Instead of Conservation the Answer to Global Warming?Inc Magazine - Paul GrossingerGiven how far gone we are, should humanity turn to technology for solutions to global warming? Scientists have reached consensus that the earth is warming up and our conservation policies are not doing
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